Streetwise Gold Articles
Gold and Silver Wait Patiently for More Easing
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet (4/13/12)
"Surveys continue to debate whether or not the Fed will provide additional easing, but gold and silver, the time-tested safe havens of the world, wait patiently as the inevitable devaluation of fiat currencies take place around the world."
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Gold Prices Headed for $2,000/oz
Source: Money Morning (4/13/12)
"Gold's current dip is a buying opportunity before the precious metal bottoms."
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Canadian Juniors' Cash Holdings Look Fat as Market Caps Sink
Source: Kip Keen, Mineweb (4/12/12)
"Cash highs may support an emerging sentiment among analysts that, on the whole, the junior market is oversold. Meaning: it could be time to invest in some juniors."
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'Useless' Gold Overtakes Platinum
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault (4/12/12)
"Gold's relative lack of industrial use makes it a far better defense against the kind of economic turmoil suffered since our financial crisis broke in mid-2007: platinum is up 24%; gold is up 153%."
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Gold Equities Gaining Credibility: Doug Groh
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (4/11/12)
While gold equities continue to trail the gold price, junior stocks are gaining traction according to Doug Groh, co-portfolio manager and senior analyst with Tocqueville Asset Management. He believes investors should not let the market's risk aversion keep them out of a stock picker's market. The trick, Groh reveals in this exclusive Gold Report interview, is to pick managements, not jurisdictions.
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Gold Steadies as Italy, Spain Face Higher Borrowing Costs
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault (4/11/12)
"Gold hovered near $1,600/oz as European stock markets recovered some ground following yesterday's losses."
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For Gold to Rise, Physical Buyers Must Return
Source: Geoff Candy, Mineweb (4/10/12)
"Despite weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs numbers out last week and renewed hopes of QE3, analysts say that the physical market needs to return if gold is to start re-gathering momentum."
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Managing Expectations: Why Gold Should Thrive
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors (4/10/12)
"Investing, like life, is about managing expectations: Even throughout gold's decade-long rise, price action over the short term can go both ways."
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A Return to the Gold Standard, or Gold Behind Currencies, Part 1
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster (4/10/12)
"The concept of quantitative easing is similar to devaluing the dollar against gold, but taking worthless assets that banks depended on for backing their credit and replacing them with freshly printed ones."
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Gold Stocks: Timing Your Next Purchase
Source: Bob Kirtley, SK Options Trading (4/9/12)
"For now, we will hold fast and continue to look for absolute bargains. Try to be patient enough to wait for the real deal."
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Failed Bottom in Gold Stocks Initiates Start of Capitulation
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold (4/9/12)
"It is more than obvious that the market is likely to make a V bottom. The good news is the market likely will be substantially higher six months and one year after the low."
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Stocks Have Reached the Euphoria Stage
Source: Toby Connor, Gold Scents (4/9/12)
"My best guess is that we will see a sharp selloff over the next two to three weeks, followed by a sharp rebound (QE3?) that may or may not move stocks to marginal new highs."
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Gold Prices Are Set for Further Decline
Source: J.W. Jones, Options Trading Signals (4/9/12)
"The real question has become when and where will the dollar top? When the dollar tops and gold finds a major bottom, the potential for a monster move higher will become likely."
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Never Mistake Intelligence for a Bull Market: George Ireland
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (4/9/12)
George Ireland, portfolio manager with Boston-based Geologic Resource Partners, believes in seeing what he invests in and his passport bears witness: 80 countries visited in five years. From Africa to Argentina, from gold to lithium and graphite, he and his team seek out companies with experienced management, promising geology, good infrastructure and strong cash flow. Ireland shares his views on issues facing the mining industry in all corners of the world in this exclusive Gold Report interview.
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Gold Juniors Available at Bargain Prices: Brien Lundin
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (4/6/12)
What do the gold market and the weather have in common? You can forecast both, but predict neither, according to Brien Lundin, chief executive of Jefferson Financial and publisher of Gold Newsletter. Lundin, who also organizes the New Orleans Investment Conference, isn't focusing on if there will be rain or sun in the market, he told The Gold Report in this exclusive interview. He's slowly accumulating juniors on the cheap that have big news in the forecast.
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Where (and When) to Place Your Investment Bets?
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey Research (4/5/12)
"If you arrange to buy gold on the 13th and silver on the 15th of each month, or on Tuesday for either metal if buying weekly, your cumulative gains stand a statistically greater probability of being slightly higher."
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Call This Financial Repression? Really?
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault (4/5/12)
"Our current freedom to buy gold is very new, along with the wealth of alternatives, both domestic and foreign, open to anyone daring to take control of their money instead of lending it to government or paying a pension fund manager to do the same."
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Junior Miners Building for a Rebound: Jordan Roy-Byrne
Source: Zig Lambo of The Gold Report (4/4/12)
The turnaround in precious metals prices and mining shares has been slower in coming than most analysts and investors have expected. This has certainly not deterred Jordan Roy-Byrne, publisher of The Daily Gold Premium, from searching for and uncovering some of the situations he expects to provide winning returns. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Roy-Byrne discusses a couple of new gold and silver names with near-term production in the works.
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The Federal Reserve Did It Again to Gold Prices
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet (4/4/12)
"Once again, the markets made large moves based on the Fed's word of mouth, this time to the downside."
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Is It Safe to Start Buying Gold Stocks Yet?
Source: David Banister, Technical Traders (4/4/12)
"Should gold hold the $1,620/oz area and rebound past $1,691/oz, you will see gold stocks take off."
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Emerging Trends in Critical Metals: Richard Karn
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Critical Metals Report (4/3/12)
While markets do not always reward every deserving company, quality deposits carry an intrinsic value. That's why Richard Karn, managing editor of The Emerging Trends Report, advises investors to "buy the resource" over the stock. In this exclusive Critical Metals Report interview, Karn shares some companies with deposits worth their salt.
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Game Changer for Gold and Stocks
Source: Neil Charnock, GoldOz (4/3/12)
"Non central banks are buying gold as well as the central banks. This is in preparation for a upcoming total acceptance of gold as a first-tier asset for reserve ratios."
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Will Gold be Part of the Emerging World's Future Monetary System?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster (4/3/12)
"With the emerging world starting to build an alternative system to that of the Western world, the times ahead are likely to be turbulent, uncertain and volatile. It's in this climate that gold acts as an anchor, a stabilizer and helps to keep the flow of international money going."
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The Decline and Fall of the US Dollar
Source: Julian Phillips, The Gold Forecaster (4/2/12)
"Gold will always remain international money completely free of national markings. It is the one 'currency' that can be exchanged that is trusted between enemies."
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Australian Gold Offers Good Protection: Richard Karn
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (4/2/12)
Richard Karn, managing editor of The Emerging Trends Report, has been in Australia investigating precious and specialty metal projects for over two years. He likes what he sees. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, he reveals that in an environment where the U.S. dollar continues to lose its purchasing power, Australia and its gold offer good protection against what he sees as a "global pandemic of corruption."
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