Streetwise Gold Articles
Gold Profits from World Turmoil: Carlos Andres
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (2/22/12)
Volatile markets. Natural disasters. Geopolitical turmoil. Last year was definitely one for the record books, according to Carlos Andres, managing editor and publisher of the Frontier Research Report. With the world in turmoil, is there any upside for mining investors? Andres believes there is for investors courageous enough to look past the perceived risk and snap up battered, but fundamentally sound, junior mining stocks. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Andres talks about why historical data points to a breakout year for gold and perhaps gold shares.
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Gold Steady After Yesterday's Big Rise
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault (2/22/12)
"Gold prices held steady just off $1,760/oz during Wednesday morning trading in London, after a rally in Tuesday's U.S. session saw gold climb 1.3%."
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Ben Graham's Curse on Gold
Source: David Galland, Casey Research (2/22/12)
"In order to have sustained, long-term investment success, one must accept that an intelligent portfolio allocation needs to include not two but three broad categories of investment: stocks, bonds and gold, with the amounts allocated to each guided by relative valuation."
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Do Central Banks Care More About the Dow or Gold?
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet (2/22/12)
"As paper assets continue to underperform, wise central banks and investors will protect themselves with precious metals, the time-tested method of preserving wealth."
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Will the Greek Bailout Make Gold and Silver Rise or Fall?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster (2/21/12)
"Gold will not replace currencies in the current monetary system, but it can and will support them."
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Buffett Mischaracterizes Gold's Bull Market
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold (2/21/12)
"The next breakout in the gold equities and the metals themselves will serve as a recognition move to the masses. It will be a springboard to an eventual bubble. This is a very volatile, cyclical sector so one must do Buffett-like due diligence in picking stocks."
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Bailouts Benefitting Gold, Silver, Uranium and Rare Earth Miners
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades (2/21/12)
"We feel that it is only a matter of time before the precious metal miners themselves participate in reflecting the burgeoning mining bull market."
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Gold and Silver Stocks' Wild Ride Ahead: Greg McCoach
Source: Zig Lambo of The Gold Report (2/20/12)
Greg McCoach, publisher of The Mining Speculator, feels gold is ultimately headed above $6,000/oz and silver into the hundreds of dollars and those who aren't paying attention now are missing their best opportunity to buy before the frenzy begins in earnest. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he spells out the reasons for his optimistic projections and shares several of his favorite stories in the junior mining sector, which he believes is headed for much higher ground.
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Gold's Consolidation Phase Continues
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault (2/20/12)
"Wholesale market gold bullion prices held above $1,730/oz in Monday morning's London trading, while European stocks and commodities edged higher amid hopes that policymakers might finally approve Greece's second bailout."
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China's 'Mystery' Gold Buyer
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault (2/20/12)
"For Asia's ravenous gold buying, state interference is perhaps the present threat, especially in a market averaging 36% compound growth by value each year since China began deregulating gold a decade ago."
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Gold's Wild Ride Leaves Explorers Ready to Grow: Tom MacNeill
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (2/17/12)
Lesser resource companies have been slowly starving to death since the capital faucet was turned off in 2008. What's left? Some exciting, early-stage companies with management teams industrious enough to make it through with promising projects on the horizon. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Tom MacNeill, CEO of 49 North Resources Inc., a Saskatchewan-focused resource investment company, discusses some names his firm is excited about, including some primed to debut on the public markets soon.
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Quiet Session Sees Gold and Silver Flat
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault (2/17/12)
"Spot market prices for buying gold held just above $1,730/oz during flat trading this morning in London, as speculation continued over whether a Greek bailout will be agreed next week."
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Record High Gold Prices Fail to Curb Global Demand
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet (2/17/12)
"Gold prices continue to receive additional support as central banks not only devalue fiat currencies, but also purchase gold themselves."
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Suppressing Gold
Source: Guiseppi Borelli, The Unpunctured Cycle (2/17/12)
"Someone is capping gold, but this is a bull market with both the primary and secondary trends headed higher. Under such conditions, stay long and buy dips where liquidity allows."
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Will Gold Cleanse the World from Dirty Fiat Currencies?
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet (2/16/12)
"Despite a temporary boost in the dollar this month, gold and silver continue to receive support from extremely loose global monetary policies."
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Are We at Gold "In Extremis"?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster (2/16/12)
"Gold brings interbank/international liquidity to clogged credit markets, acting as a guarantee of repayment and allowing for the lowering of interest rates on interbank/international loans. This role supports the paper money system."
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Gold Stocks Basing After Bottom
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold
(2/16/12)
"We expect 2012 to be a transition year in which precious metals reemerge while the broad market peters out at resistance."
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Gold, Silver Heading Up: Roger Wiegand
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (2/15/12)
Roger Wiegand, editor of Trader Tracks, says cycles will bring gold and silver higher in the first half of 2012: gold up to $2,050/oz and silver up to $44/oz or even $50/oz. He sees plenty of opportunities for volatility given the political and economic situation in the U.S. and the EU. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, Wiegand reveals names of mining companies poised to profit.
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Takeovers the Path to Golden Returns: Sascha Opel
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (2/15/12)
Sascha Opel, publisher of one of Germany's most popular commodity newsletters, looks at the economy with rose-colored glasses. He sees the end of the Euro crisis and sees Asian growth as the engine pulling the world out of its economic malaise. He finds the path to golden returns in gold and silver companies likely to be taken over and in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he's not afraid to name likely targets.
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The Lesson of Half-Hearted QE
Source: Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault (2/15/12)
"Keeping banks on life support, as the Japanese experience shows, will mean extending and expanding QE indefinitely."
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Gold's Demise!
Source: Guiseppi Borelli, The Unpunctured Cycle (2/14/12)
"I view gold not as some smoky fantasy involving riches beyond my wildest dreams, but as a way to protect myself and my family from a future fraught with peril."
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Why I'm Taking Gold Double Eagles on My Next Trip to Utah
Source: Martin Hutchinson, Money Morning (2/14/12)
"Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may think he has everything under control, but the truth is the monetary ground is literally shifting beneath our feet. That's why his loose monetary policy has some U.S. states looking to get into the gold coin business."
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Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest: Trading Gold for Oil
Source: Mickey Fulp, Mercenary Geologist (2/13/12)
"Buying oil with gold is not a viable economic, monetary or political strategy for China or India."
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Sideways Trading for Gold and the HUI Index
Source: Vin Maru, TVD Gold Trader (2/13/12)
"Unlike gold, the HUI index has not broken above the negative trend line just yet, so for the moment mining shares are still underperforming the gold price."
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Profit in the Investment Ecosystem: Catherine Austin Fitts
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report (2/10/12)
When money managers refer to total return funds, they're generally talking about investments that promise to deliver returns that beat the prevailing rate of interest while preserving capital. Investment advisor and Solari Report Publisher Catherine Austin Fitts takes the totality concept to a whole new level by focusing on net positive total returns. As she explains in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, she hunts for companies that offer value not only to stockholders but for society.
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