Why Matt Badiali Says Hillary Clinton Could Be Remembered as One of the Best Presidents Ever
Source: JT Long of The Mining Report  (10/28/14)
Cheap oil prices and the economic prosperity they bring can make politicians and investors look smarter than they are. In this interview with The Mining Report, Stansberry Research Editor Matt Badiali shares the secrets for finding underappreciated commodities and companies before they become overpriced, and names his favorites. More >

Oliver Gross Says Peak Gold Is Here to Stay
Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Gold Report  (10/27/14)
The wave of zero-interest liquidity washing over the financial world could result in a short-term gold bottom of $1,000 per ounce, reports Oliver Gross of Der Rohstoff-Anleger (The Resource Investor). The good news is that Peak Gold is here to stay, which means that midtier producers will soon be desperate to buy low-cost, high-quality deposits. In this interview with The Gold Report,
Gross argues that this could be the opportunity of a lifetime for contrarian investors, and suggests a half-dozen best bets to be taken out.
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Why One Firm Would Buy Over Half the LME's Copper Stocks
Source: Teresa Matich, Resource Investing News  (10/27/14)
"LME stocks are used as an emergency source of supply, and having a monopoly over them could allow one to charge higher prices." More >

Credit Suisse Expert Targets MLPs that Could Increase Dividends and Yields in 2015
Source: JT Long of The Energy Report  (10/23/14)
War, severe weather and record natural gas production are buffeting energy stock prices. Where can investors turn for safety? In this interview with The Energy Report, Credit Suisse's John Edwards suggests that midstream master limited partnerships, while they have been volatile of late, are fundamentally stable business models, and have less exposure to volatility than explorers and producers. As a bonus, he names his top companies in a rising yield environment. Let's just hope oil stays above $80/barrel. More >

Is Biotech M&A Mojo Here to Stay? Bright Prospects and Rising Firepower Drive Deals
Source: Andrew Forman, EY  (10/23/14)
"Despite modest revenue growth, the industry has provided a total return to shareholders in excess of the performance of most major stock indices in 2014." More >

Ron Struthers: Focus on Graphite Companies with Green Energy and Technology Strategies
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (10/22/14)
Graphite equities continue to trade sideways, but a handful are starting to emerge as best-in-class plays as they race to secure offtake agreements by derisking their projects through resource upgrading and economic studies. Ron Struthers, editor and publisher of Struthers' Resource Stock Report, says that investors need to focus on companies with strategies designed to position themselves with green energy and technology firms. In this interview with The Gold Report, he names a few players that make the grade. More >

Japan Gives a Hug to the Cell Therapy Industry: R. Lee Buckler
Source: George S. Mack of The Life Sciences Report  (10/22/14)
Last year, Japan rolled out the red carpet for cell therapy developers with new legislation designed to expedite development of regenerative medicine solutions for all manner of disease. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, former regenerative medicine consultant R. Lee Buckler, now a vice president with RepliCel Life Sciences Inc., puts his consultant's hat back on to talk about Japan's hospitable stance on proposed cell therapies. He provides an update on the meaning of the new law and discusses a small cohort of companies poised to reap the advantages. More >

Big Oil And Renewables: Not So Strange Bedfellows
Source: Andrew Topf, OilPrice.com  (10/22/14)
"While Big Oil and renewables have seen an on-again off-again courtship, there appears to be hope in reconstituting the relationship if it can be viewed less as a zero-sum game than one that could flourish if there are enough mutual benefits to be gained. More >

Follow the Baby Boom to Profits: Agility Health's Steven Davidson
Source: Peter Byrne of The Life Sciences Report  (10/21/14)
In recent years, entrepreneurial therapists have comprised the fast-growing sector in outpatient physical therapy. But companies like Agility Health are beginning to seize acquisition opportunities and market share in this growing sector. Steven Davidson, CEO of Agility Health Inc., tells The Life Sciences Report how his company is innovating in the physical therapy space, improving patient care and clients' bottom lines through its management expertise and proprietary software, AgileRPM. With baby boomers aging and the Affordable Care Act increasing access to services, physical therapy just might be the safe haven sector to shield your portfolio from macroeconomic uncertainty. More >

Stefan Ioannou: Copper, Nickel and Zinc Won't Be Cheap for Long
Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Mining Report  (10/21/14)
The all-powerful U.S. dollar is currently hammering base metals and base metal equities. Haywood Securities Mining Analyst Stefan Ioannou says that increasing demand and near-term supply shortages make base metals a bargain that won't last. In this interview with The Mining Report, Ioannou argues that juniors with good deposits and low costs are in a unique position to benefit, and lists several companies that look to do just that. More >

Chinese and Indian Gold Buyers Back in Market in a Big Way
Source: Lawrence Williams, Mineweb  (10/21/14)
"By all accounts, demand in the two biggest consuming nations has been soaring, and they are, between them, taking in virtually everything the world's gold mines can produce." More >

An Ebola Armageddon Could Trigger a Rebirth in Gold and Silver Prices: Eric Sprott
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (10/20/14)
Could an infectious disease kill the monster that has been choking gold and silver prices for more than a year? On the heels of a lively Sprott Precious Metals Roundtable discussion, The Gold Report caught up with investor Eric Sprott to ask how a tragedy in Africa could impact the price of precious metals and mining stocks. We also spoke to his Executive Vice President of Corporate Development John Ciampaglia about a new way to gain exposure to gold. More >

A Year of Hard-Wrought Lessons for Platinum
Source: Duduzile Ramela, Moneyweb  (10/20/14)
"Mechanization is becoming more viable; we're going to see a more skilled workforce..." More >

The Evolution of the Cancer Cure
Source: Ray Blanco, The Daily Reckoning  (10/20/14)
"Provided new therapies keep becoming available, a cancer patient can sometimes "hitchhike" from one to the next for a long time." More >

Leading Indicators for Gold's Turnaround
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (10/17/14)
"While gold has only recently emerged from a weak triple bottom, it is showing more strength against the other asset classes." More >

Three Ways to Play Uranium: Dundee's David Talbot Names His Top Draft Picks
Source: Tom Armistead of The Energy Report  (10/16/14)
Investors in the uranium space are like Goldilocks: They have three major ways to play, says David A. Talbot, senior mining analyst at Dundee Capital Markets. The Athabasca Basin entices with high rewards for high risks. U.S.-based in-situ recovery offers stable cash flow from stable operations. And companies challenged by current market prices that are positioning themselves smartly for an upswing also provide opportunity. In this interview with The Energy Report, Talbot explains the turbulent currents roiling the uranium space, and names eight players he thinks are positioned just right. More >

How to Bargain Hunt for Hot Biotechs: Edison's Pooya Hemami
Source: Peter Byrne of The Life Sciences Report  (10/15/14)
Every business day, Edison Investment Research Analyst Pooya Hemami scours the global markets for life science companies with upside flowing through their product pipelines. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Dr. Hemami tells us where to look for biotech bargains, including a few top-fliers and a handful of companies that have experienced temporary setbacks but are poised for blue sky. More >

H.C. Wainwright Analyst Jeff Wright Names Three Companies that Could Turn the Gold Trend Upside Down
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (10/15/14)
Fans of gold have been following Federal Reserve Board announcements for any sign of relief, but H.C. Wainwright & Co. Analyst Jeff Wright says change may be a long time coming. That is why in this interview with The Gold Report, Wright is focusing on three companies that can be successful even in a low gold price environment. He also offers three questions every investor should ask before buying a junior mining stock.
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Shabbvie Marks Difference Between Great and Exceptional Deal Quarter
Source: EP Vantage  (10/15/14)
"The summer slowdown was officially cancelled this year as $100B of third-quarter mergers and takeovers blasted the previous period into oblivion—or at least this is how things stood before news emerged that AbbVie was having second thoughts about buying Shire." More >

John Kaiser's Tips for Escaping the Resource Sector Swamp Alive
Source: JT Long of The Mining Report  (10/14/14)
What if the goldbugs are wrong and fiat currency isn't going to throw the world into hyperinflation? What if, instead, a steadily growing economy and a new awareness of the importance of having security of supply for critical metals, along with a big exciting discovery that heats up the resource sector, are what pull sinking gold and silver prices and their related mining companies out of the muck? If so, John Kaiser tells The Mining Report that he has set his sights on the dozen companies that would star in this horror-turned-romantic epic adventure. More >

A Win-Win Scenario for Gold Investors
Source: James Rickards, The Daily Reckoning  (10/14/14)
"Investors can use recent setbacks to acquire gold at more attractive prices while waiting for the inevitable price increase to occur." More >

Don't Miss Your Chance to Profit from the End of OPEC
Source: Matt Insley, The Daily Reckoning  (10/14/14)
"A decade ago would you ever imagine that a U.S.-led oil boom would cause a panic among OPEC nations?" More >

Must Read: 10 Companies Adrian Day Sees as Stable in a World that Is Not
Source: Peter Byrne of The Gold Report  (10/13/14)
Fund Manager Adrian Day has a ready answer for investors wondering why the gold price has been so depressed. It is the strength of the dollar. The Bank of Japan can act like a drunken sailor buying bonds at negative interest rates and the European Central Bank can do all the quantitative easing it wants, but as long as the dollar remains high, the gold price will suffer. That is why, in this interview with The Gold Report, Day focuses on 10 companies that can remain stable at almost any price. More >

Will Russia and South Africa Become the OPEC of Platinum?
Source: Teresa Matich, Resource Investing News   (10/12/14)
"Bloomberg reported last Wednesday that Russia and South Africa will meet next month to discuss their mutual interest in the white metals, and the possibility of bolstering prices." More >

Griffin Securities' Keith Markey on the Promise of RNAi and Synthetic Biology
Source: Michael Goodman of The Life Sciences Report  (10/9/14)
Griffin Securities has assembled a biotech portfolio weighted toward companies pursuing high-science therapeutic approaches. However, as analyst Keith Markey explains, through a combination of pipeline diversification, positive clinical data, and low-cost research and development strategies, many companies are able to mitigate the risk inherent in their technologies. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Markey discusses near-term catalysts for some of the names he follows. More >