Tension Mounts as the Focus Turns to Bernanke and QE3's Possibility
Source: Tom Cleveland, ForexTraders  (3/29/12)
"What are the current prospects for QE3? Gold, stocks, and the euro would surely benefit from any hint that more easing in the U.S. was definitely on the table." More >

Martin Armstrong on the Sovereign Debt Crisis
Source: Ron Hera, Hera Research  (3/29/12)
"It gets to a stage where it doesn't matter if you use conch shells for money or gold. There is no fiscal responsibility in government. We have to eliminate the core problem and eliminate government borrowing except in time of war." More >

Fatal Flaws and Opportunities in Gold Investing: Brent Cook
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (3/28/12)
Brent Cook, editor of Exploration Insights, describes the past 15 years of change in gold, copper and iron. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he shares what he sees as the fatal flaws and opportunities in this complex industry, details the most important factors he looks for before investing, and names companies he believes have the right stuff. More >

Platinum and Palladium: The Other Precious Metals
Source: Martin Hutchinson, Money Morning  (3/28/12)
"Even gold and silver investors need to diversify, and there's a small window of opportunity to get in on platinum and palladium before prices really start to take off." More >

Current Gold and Oil Trading Patterns Unfolding
Source: Chris Vermeulen, TheGoldAndOilGuy  (3/28/12)
"The four-hour chart is one timeframe most traders overlook, but I find it to be the best one for spotting day trades, momentum trades and swing trades, which pack a powerful, quick punch." More >

US Interest Rates Support Gold Prices
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (3/28/12)
"Wholesale market gold prices dropped to below $1,680/oz Wednesday morning, 1% down on their high for the week, after failing a day earlier to break the $1,700/oz barrier." More >

Rick Rule's New Strategy for Profiting from Volatility
Source: Special to The Gold Report  (3/28/12)
Global Resource Investments Founder and Chairman Rick Rule is worried about the impact trillions of dollars of manufactured liquidity will have on global markets. In this summary of his recent web broadcast for The Gold Report, he outlines his new strategy for staying above water for the volatile 3–12 months he sees on the economic radar screen. More >

Will Monetary Policy and Inflation Continue to Support Gold?
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet  (3/28/12)
"Although gold and silver prices have fluctuated during the past decade, the general trend has been higher. Using CPM Group's support levels of $1,400/oz and $1,500/oz for gold, it appears that the precious metal has more upside than downside." More >

The [Recovery] Has No Clothes
Source: Eric Sprott and David Baker  (3/28/12)
"'The prevalence of paper trading in the silver market is what makes the drastic price declines possible by allowing non-physical holders to sell massive size into a relatively small market.'" More >

Is the US Dollar Headed for a Major Fall?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (3/27/12)
"The use of the international monetary system as a war machine (aka the SWIFT system) has surprised and angered BRIC nations, who are meeting next week to work out ways to prevent the U.S. from exercising such power." More >

Emerging Gold Juniors and Explorers Should Recover in 2012: Jeff Berwick
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (3/26/12)
Jeff Berwick, chief editor and founder of The Dollar Vigilante and avowed anarchist, holds precious metals for safety and holds their equities for profits. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, he counsels geopolitical diversity and paying close attention to precious metal stocks. More >

Gold Gains as Fed Chairman Points to Continued Stimulus
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (3/26/12)
"Ben Bernanke said the U.S. economy still needs 'continued accommodative polices' despite recent signs of improvement." More >

Gold and China: Where the Bulls and Bears Square Off
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors  (3/26/12)
"Gold and China are two areas that have been caught in the bear trap this week, but we believe the gold and China bulls still have room to run." More >

Stealth Bottom Coming in Gold Stocks
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (3/26/12)
"The miners are not only extremely oversold but recent price action suggests a bottoming process is beginning." More >

Can Bernanke Break the Dollar Rally?
Source: Toby Connor, Gold Scents  (3/24/12)
"Bernanke has steered the Titanic straight into the iceberg and there's no turning back." More >

Early-Stage Investing Opportunities: James West and Tobias Tretter
Source: Sally Lowder of The Gold Report   (3/23/12)
The Midas Letter Opportunity Fund, a new niche fund, focuses on early-stage micro-cap miners in the junior resource sector. This sector has been an underperformer in recent months despite high gold prices. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, the fund's founders, Tobias Tretter, the managing director of Commodity Capital AG, and James West, publisher of The Midas Letter, explain why they are bullish on micro-cap miners even in the face of improving economic numbers that may stall gold's rise and name some juniors they expect to shine. More >

What Does Mali's Coup Mean for Miners?
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (3/23/12)
Investors are holding their breath after a military mutiny and coup March 22 in Mali, one of West Africa's most established democracies. This Gold Report exclusive delves behind the headlines to analyze the coup's impact on miners.

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The Curse
Source: Eric Coffin, HRA Hard Rock Analyst  (3/23/12)
"Pullbacks in resource stocks seem to follow on the heels of the PDAC convention. So far, this month is looking like this annual scourge is alive and well and making life miserable for resource stock traders yet again. Precious metals have to stabilize after their recent fall but there will be room for gains once that happens." More >

Inter-Citic CEO on Gold, China and Stocks
Source: Thom Calandra, Baby Bulls Twits   (3/23/12)
"A China-centric gold developer says China's consumer price inflation is understated and real estate developers will melt down if the nation's banks step away from largely vacant offices, subdivisions and warehouses. The informed warning is good for gold." More >

Gold Stock Panic Levels
Source: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence  (3/23/12)
"As long as fat profit streams continue for gold miners, the immutable law of long-term stock pricing guarantees gold stocks will eventually be bid up to reflect their earnings." More >

Gold Swerves to Avoid the Cross of Death
Source: Bob Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (3/22/12)
"As investors, maybe we need to consider the possibility of an extended period of consolidation with not much more to look forward to than range-trading and sideways movement." More >

Why Gold Can Go the Distance
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors  (3/22/12)
"Historically, negative real interest rates (where the inflationary rate is greater than the current interest rate) combined with global stimulative money supply efforts have been an especially powerful combination for gold prices." More >

The Gold Sector Is On Sale: Michael Fowler
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report Interviewed on 3/14/12   (3/21/12)
Michael Fowler, senior mining analyst with Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon sees small- and mid-cap junior producers and developers as the "sweet spot" in the gold equities space, and provides a basket of names to consider in each space. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, he also shares his views on the irresponsibility of the "new paradigm" of large-scale financings now in vogue. More >

Have Gold and Silver Entered a Bear Market?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (3/21/12)
"Traders are trying to translate the short-term strength of the dollar to a weakness in gold. Their influence is short term." More >

How to Trade Gold with ETFs and Options
Source: Larry Spears, Money Morning  (3/21/12)
"For trading purposes, you can find some pretty good proxies for gold futures that require substantially less cash up front and carry significantly lower risk." More >