Dramatic Turnaround for Silver?
Source: Hubert Moolman  (5/18/12)
"Patterns indicate a dramatic turnaround in the price of silver is coming—it might have started already." More >

Big Majority of Survey Participants See Higher Gold Prices Next Week
Source: Kitco   (5/18/12)
"A solid majority of survey participants expect prices to rally next week, especially since June gold futures on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange held the low set on Wednesday of $1,526.70/oz. Many said the selloff was overdone so the rebound was in due course." More >

Gold Rises 1%, Eyes Weekly Gain as Euro Recovers
Source: Reuters, Jan Harvey  (5/18/12)
"Gold bucked the trend in the wider markets, with European shares falling 0.6% and oil prices slipping to their lowest this year." More >

Bottom Is In, But Is It September 2008 or October 2008?
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (5/18/12)
"Judging from the technicals and recent sentiment data, it is clear that the gold stocks are currently more oversold and much closer to a major bottom relative to the failed recovery in the summer of 2008." More >

Investing in Alternative Energy Stocks: Five Solar Power Winners
Source: Patrick Vail, Money Morning   (5/18/12)
"It has been a tough year for solar power. Solyndra famously imploded, the price of polysilicon dropped 60% and a glut of natural gas has made it the 'new' alternative energy source. But make no mistake about it: Solar power stocks are going to be long-term winners." More >

Gold Stock Capitulation
Source: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence  (5/18/12)
"Capitulation, the wholesale abandonment of a sector by traders pushed to their emotional limits, is one of the greatest buy signals. And the intense technical weakness and extreme sentimental distress in gold stocks sure looks like one." More >

Two Culprits in the Oil Demand-Pricing Disconnect
Source: Kent Moors, Oil & Energy Investor  (5/18/12)
"As we wait for a 'floor' in the price of oil, the pundits continue to talk about declining oil demand in the U.S. and Europe. But the figures are beginning to tell us something very different—at least on one side of the pond." More >

2012 Chinese Rare Earth Export Quotas Updated
Source: Gareth Hatch, Resource Investor  (5/18/12)
"On Thursday, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced an update to the 2012 allocations of rare-earth export quotas that were first issued in December 2011. This follows a number of other recent announcements from China." More >

MLP Thoughts: Last Week, Dubbed
Source: Hinds Howard, MLP HINDSight  (5/18/12)
"This week's MLP price action felt like a crappy copy of last week. Similar, but worse." More >

Five Companies in the Casey Portfolio Worth Watching: Alex Daley
Source: George S. Mack, The Life Sciences Report  (5/17/12)
Biotech and medtech expose investors to rapid growth in healthcare innovation. In this exclusive interview with The Life Sciences Report, Chief Investment Strategist Alex Daley of Casey's Extraordinary Technology matches science to unmet needs to bring big ideas and big returns to investors. More >

Lithium Demand Will Rise Significantly: Mansur Khan
Source: George S. Mack of The Energy Report  (5/17/12)

Lithium is lightest of all metallic elements, with low density and high electrochemical potential. These are essential characteristics that make the element especially suitable for use in various power-storage applications, including electric vehicles (EVs). In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Equity Research Analyst Mansur Khan of Dundee Capital Markets talks about his favorite junior lithium stocks that he expects to be major beneficiaries of dramatic growth in lithium-ion battery demand over the coming decade. More >

Water Key to Fracking
Source: Nick Hodge, Wealth Daily  (5/17/12)
"Just as with the gold rush, it's going to be the providers of picks and shovels who grow richest, not the prospectors. Clean water is the picks and shovels for the fracking industry." More >

National Strategic and Critical Minerals Act Wins US House Committee Approval
Source: Dorothy Kosich, Mineweb  (5/17/12)
"The U.S. Department of Energy identified the 7–10 year period to obtain mining permits in the U.S. as compared to the average 1–2 years in Australia as one of the principal barriers to new U.S. mining ventures." More >

Precious Metals Market Manipulation?
Source: Doug Casey, Casey Research  (5/17/12)
"I'm not at all disinclined to believe tales of manipulation of markets by the state; I expect it, and as a speculator I relish it. But I like to see evidence for everything. And extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." More >

How Gold Demand Remains Resilient
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors  (5/17/12)
"Demand for gold was relatively resilient in the first quarter of 2012, with global demand falling 5% on a year-over-year basis, says the World Gold Council." More >

Major Long-Term Bottoms Forming in Gold and Commodities
Source: Toby Connor, Gold Scents  (5/17/12)
"I think the 30-point rally in gold Thursday is signaling that gold has put in its yearly cycle bottom." More >

Buyout Options Gaining a Foothold
Source: Alex Philippidis, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News  (5/17/12)
"Deals involving buyout rights have two features that make them attractive to smaller partners: up-front payments and a longer-term path to liquidity for their investors." More >

'Waterless' Fracking: Using LPG for Greater Oil & Gas Recovery
Source: Keith Schaefer, Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin  (5/17/12)
"GasFrac is unique in the global fracking industry in that it uses no water, and there is now a growing database that shows its Liquid Propane Gas technology dramatically improves overall oil and gas well recovery." More >

Finding Opportunity in Silver, the Devil's Metal: Chris Thompson
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (5/16/12)
Silver has been called the most volatile of metals. But volatility produces opportunity, according to Chris Thompson, a top-ranked StarMine analyst with Haywood Securities. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Thompson forecasts a strong year-end for the devil's metal, despite price weakness so far in Q2/12, and shares the names of a select group of companies that stand to profit. More >

Recovery Via Shared Sacrifice: Lacy Hunt
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report  (5/16/12)
If the people and politicians of the U.S. can't muster the will to reform Social Security and Medicare, the country will slide on down toward what internationally renowned economist Lacy Hunt calls the "bang point." What we'd face on the other side would be bad news indeed. But in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Hunt goes on to list a few steps to turn the tide on economic growth. The route won't be an easy one but it would address the debt and begin to improve living standards. More >

Liquidation of 'Crowded' Gold Trade Pauses
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (5/16/12)
"'Market participants have given up waiting for a bounce,' says a Singapore dealer. 'The market will do what it needs to do to clean out the weakly margined before it becomes healthy once again.'" More >

The Bear Facts of the Bullion Market
Source: John Nadler, Resource Investor  (5/16/12)
"This time around, despite all the denials of the fact and protestations to the contrary, the gold market entered the cave of the bear." More >

Is the Resource Boom Over? A Resounding No!
Source: Lawrence Williams, Mineweb  (5/16/12)
"Adrian Day argues that China's growth is bullish for copper in particular, China's consumption having quadrupled in the past 15 years." More >

Australia's Mining Sector Grows at Staggering 12% a Year
Source: IB Times, Vittorio Hernandez  (5/16/12)
"Australia's mining sector continues to gallop, while the rest of the economy trails behind." More >

Gold Recovers from 4-1/2-Month Low as Euro Firms
Source: Reuters, Amanda Cooper  (5/16/12)
"Gold recovered from its lowest since late December on Wednesday, edging back into positive territory as U.S. stocks opened higher after speculation Germany and France will act to keep Greece in the Eurozone lifted the euro into the black." More >