U.S. Global Investors' Secret: 'Keep Calm and Invest On'
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (7/24/13)
As an investor, you probably get a lot of advice and don't know which to follow: There are conflicting reports, Fed announcements, figures that tell only half the story. In this interview with The Gold Report, Ralph Aldis, senior mining analyst with U.S. Global Investors, helps investors parse these many information streams, explains what seasonal gold pricing patterns could mean for investors and offers a stable of junior equities that could provide greater leverage to a gold price recovery. More >

Why Gold Mining Stocks Are a Buy Now
Source: Gary Gately, Money Morning  (7/24/13)
"You have to choose carefully when picking gold mining stocks or ETFs to buy." More >

Could Small Modular Reactors Goose Uranium Prices?
Source: Tom Armistead of The Energy Report  (7/23/13)
Nuclear power is the best option for clean base-load power generation, according to Gold Stock Trades Editor Jeb Handwerger. As proof, he points to signs that even environmentalists are beginning to favor it. Meanwhile, uranium stocks are rising and large nuclear construction programs overseas should keep upward pressure on them. But as Handwerger explains in this interview with The Energy Report, the future of nuclear power generation may lie with small modular reactors, and the U.S. is leading their development. More >

Ron Struthers: Have Flake Graphite Prices Bottomed?
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Metals Report  (7/23/13)
After a spike in flake graphite in 2011, have prices finally reached bottom? Ron Struthers, the publisher and editor of Struthers' Resource Stock Report, believes so. In this interview with The Metals Report, Struthers talks about how market psychology and fundamentals may play out in the graphite and rare earths spaces as new mines inch toward production. More >

Is the Next Big Oil Discovery in Resource-Rich Australia?
Source: John C. K. Daly, Oilprice.com  (7/23/13)
"According to a U.S. government report, resource-rich Australia could be home to as much as 10 times the existing known gas reserves, higher than its existing oil reserves." More >

Three Qualities That Separate Junior Gold Winners from Losers: Eric Coffin
Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Gold Report   (7/22/13)
Gold juniors need to get back to the basics, says Eric Coffin, and it is going to take large discoveries to get the market excited again. In this interview with The Gold Report, the publisher of Hard Rock Analyst explains how the new economics of gold production require investors to concentrate on companies with three specific qualities, and names companies and the regions that could generate breakout projects. More >

Strong Contrarian Buy Signal on Gold Stocks
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (7/19/13)
"One should consider the gold stocks a venture capital type of investment." More >

Raghuram 'Ram' Selvaraju on the Best Biotech Ideas of 2013
Source: George S. Mack of The Life Sciences Report   (7/18/13)
Small-cap, oncology-focused biotechs with novel technologies have always been bestsellers for investors. Subplots have emerged along the way, but Aegis Capital Corp.'s Managing Director and Head of Healthcare Equity Research Raghuram "Ram" Selvaraju maintains that these companies continue to drive the biotech story forward. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Selvaraju reflects on the state of the industry and shares reams of information on specific ideas for investors. More >

Stock Picking in the US Shale Basins: Neal Dingmann
Source: Tom Armistead of The Energy Report  (7/18/13)
As an oil analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, it's a given that Neal Dingmann has his eye on energy stocks come rain or shine. But whether you're bullish or bearish on U.S. shale development, it's wise to know which stocks are poised to deliver shareholder value. In this interview with The Energy Report, Dingmann tiptoes through North America's major shale plays (including an interesting hybrid) and points out the cream of the crop. More >

Opportunity Ahead in the Energy Supercycle?
Source: Frank Holmes, Frank Talk  (7/18/13)
"We see severe price declines as possible buying opportunities during this ongoing commodity supercycle." More >

'Mexico Mike' Kachanovsky Believes the Best Cure for Low Prices Is Low Prices
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (7/17/13)
Even though precious metals stocks are going through a nasty and unpleasant interval, Mike Kachanovsky, founder and partner of smartinvestment.ca, looks at the market through a bullish lens. Shrewd accumulators are buying all the gold and silver juniors they can. When prices recover, investors will realize that mining stocks have been driven down to generational lows and money will rapidly flow back into the juniors. In this interview with The Gold Report, Kachanovsky details actions smaller juniors can take to survive the downturn and discusses companies with the resources to stay afloat until the markets rebound. More >

A Short Seller's Investment Guide to Obama's Climate Change Initiatives
Source: Tom Armistead of The Energy Report  (7/16/13)
"Regulation" is a dirty word among many investors, but for speculators like Rodney Stevens, portfolio manager at Wolverton Securities Ltd. and author of The Disciplined Speculator newsletter, state-mandated emissions caps and renewable energy goals present an extraordinary opportunity for growth. In this interview with The Energy Report, Stevens makes a bullish case for solar stocks and offers several names for traders playing offense or defense. Whatever your strategy, Stevens says get the heck out of bonds and into equities. More >

Will Wireless Power Revolutionize Mobile Tech?
Source: Louis Basenese, Daily Reckoning  (7/16/13)
"Battery improvement has seriously lagged other technologies over the past 20 years or so." More >

The Results Are (Almost) In for Rare Earth Competitors: Alex Knox
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Metals Report  (7/16/13)
Western rare earth companies are in a conditioning period, optimizing on every front to get the leanest capital costs possible. In the next six months, Geologist Alex Knox expects a big shakeout across the rare earth space as companies release amended PEAs and feasibility studies. "That," says Knox in this interview with The Metals Report, "is when smart investors will be able to look at the numbers and pick out the winners." Knox helps us jump the gun by identifying companies with lean, mean stats. More >

Timing Gold's Bottom
Source: Louis James, Casey Research  (7/16/13)
Why the pros don't care if gold gets whacked some more. More >

Why Stephan Bogner Believes You Should Be 100% Invested in Precious Metals
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (7/15/13)
Now is the time to be brave, to buy when everyone else is selling, advises Stephan Bogner, analyst with Rockstone Research and CEO of bullion dealer Elementum International. Content to go against the grain, Bogner believes investors should be 100% invested in precious metals, both in physical metals and equities. He is interested not only in companies that are profitable now but also in ones that will someday be in the black again. In this interview with The Gold Report, he describes his ideal portfolio, which includes companies operating in far-flung places. More >

Survey: Companies 'Utterly Unprepared' for SEC Conflict Minerals Compliance
Source: Dorothy Kosich, Mineweb  (7/15/13)
"The PwC survey determined that the single biggest challenge for companies is getting accurate information from their suppliers." More >

Breakdown: British Columbia Explorers
Source: Visual Capitalistm  (7/15/13)
"Using 20+ variables, we've analyzed over 50 exploration companies and their main projects in B.C." More >

Chris Mayer's Four-Point Formula for Returns
Source: Tom Armistead of The Energy Report  (7/11/13)
It's time to tear your eyes away from those stock price charts. Chris Mayer, Agora Financial managing editor and author of "World Right Side Up" and "Invest Like a Dealmaker," walks us through his four-point company evaluation strategy, "CODE," identifying crucial, less publicized metrics that give real insight into a company's value. In this interview with The Energy Report, learn how to pick your stocks like a seasoned financial analyst. As Mayer explains, with global finance shifting back to emerging economies, it's an exciting time to be an investor. More >

The Growing Appetite for Biotech: Pooya Hemami
Source: Peter Byrne of The Life Sciences Report  (7/11/13)
When should investors jump on a junior biotech stock with a promising product in the pipeline? That's a tricky question, one that analyst Pooya Hemami of Edison Investment Research considers carefully as he tracks astonishing epigenetic-based and orphan drugs with novel applications. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Hemami describes how he assesses the viability of a junior firm and gives the nod to several well-positioned names in Planet Biotech. More >

Something's Got to Give in the Precious Metals Market: Heiko Ihle
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (7/10/13)
These are scary times for precious metal investors. Resource equities are in the tank and, adding insult to injury, the gold price took a precipitous fall just days before summer, notoriously one of the slowest seasons for precious metals. Heiko Ihle, an analyst with Euro Pacific Capital in Connecticut, tells The Gold Report that something has to give. And soon. Ihle sets out a likely scenario and highlights some miners that are able to produce profitably at current metals prices.
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Who Will Benefit from the Mexico Natural Gas Export Boom?
Source: Dave Forest, Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin  (7/10/13)
"Mexico could be the surprise driver of marginal demand—and gas prices." More >

A Radical Solution for the Rare Earth Supply Crunch: Jack Lifton
Source: Alec Gimurtu of The Metals Report  (7/9/13)
Iron miners don't make cars, so why should rare earth miners make magnets? According to longtime rare earth expert/consultant Jack Lifton, "mine to magnet" vertical integration strategies are little more than pie in the sky schemes. But Lifton just might have the perfect solution for the world's rare earth element supply problems. In this interview with The Metals Report, Lifton tells us how a non-Chinese international rare earth toll refinery would get separated rare earths downstream more efficiently, while simplifying miners' business plans. Find out which companies could be part of the solution. More >

Sprott Money Managers Share the Secret for Surviving the 'Bernanke Put'
Source: Zig Lambo of The Energy Report  (7/9/13)
The "Bernanke Put," or promises of quantitative easing, has become the standard government response to economic uncertainty. But while the powers that be insist everything's fine, Sprott Resource Corp. Founder Kevin Bambrough and COO Paul Dimitriadis see financial deterioration around the globe. Only one thing is for certain: Taking the contrarian view provides the best opportunities to buy low and sell high. In this interview with The Energy Report, they explain why they expect energy assets to perform better in the long haul, cluing us in on a few names they are considering for big returns. More >

What the Fundamentals Say About Gold
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (7/9/13)
"The fall in the gold price changed the entire dynamics of the gold market." More >