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." More >

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." More >

Weight Loss Stocks Race to End the Obesity Epidemic
Source: Diane Alter, Money Morning  (4/10/12)
"The economic burden of obesity is estimated to be 10% of total health care costs, with projections continuing to grow as the obesity epidemic spreads. For investors, that means weight loss stocks are poised to gain." More >

Breaking the Mold of Oncology Drug Development
Source: Seeking Alpha, Brian Nichols  (4/10/12)
"Looking at all oncology products on the market, it is striking to note how each targets a single factor in the complex processes that control tumor growth and invasion. It is almost like attempting to stop traffic in a city by blocking a single avenue: It only slows down traffic but doesn't stop it completely." More >

On Estimating Rare Earth Reserves
Source: Gareth Hatch, Resource Investor  (4/10/12)
"The NI 43-101 approach to mineral-resource classification provides greater transparency on the early stages of project development with a rigorous reporting framework that is missing under the SEC guidelines." More >

Fatty Acids Fight Cancer Spread
Source: News Medical  (4/9/12)
"Tiny agents found in omega-3 could potentially be used to block the path of primary cancer tumors, preventing the advance to secondary-stage cancers." More >

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." More >

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." More >

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." More >

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." More >

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. More >

Coal Stocks Are Historically Cheap—Here's What You Need to Know
Source: Patrick Vail, Money Morning  (4/9/12)
"With a torrent of factors dragging the industry down, can coal make a comeback? Let's look at what's the matter with coal, why it doesn't matter in the big picture, and how you can make some money on the rebound." More >

Why You Should Invest In Natural Gas
Source: Jared Cummans, ETF Daily News  (4/9/12)
"Companies and funds that focus on natural gas producers and extractors stand to gain a fair amount of ground in coming years as pipelines and productions skyrocket." More >

Nanotechnology Used to Hunt for Hidden Pathogens
Source: ScienceDaily  (4/9/12)
"The new nanoparticle-based technique may be used to detect microbes that have challenged scientists for centuries because they hide deep in human tissue and are able to reprogram cells to successfully evade the immune system." More >

Biotech Stocks: How to Invest in the Buyout Binge
Source: William Patalon, Money Morning  (4/9/12)
"The very same problem that has big pharma execs wringing their hands is also creating one of the biggest profit opportunities we've seen in years." More >

Studies Suggest that When It Comes to Drug Development Success, Size Matters
Source: Alex Philippidis, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News  (4/9/12)
"Studies have come to the conclusion that biologics hold better prospects than traditional small molecules of advancing all the way from the lab to the clinic to the market." More >

The Generic Drug Boom
Source: Patrick Cox, The Daily Reckoning  (4/9/12)
"Many popular and profitable medicines are nearing the end of their patent-protection periods. As blockbusters begin to face competition from generics, big pharma stands to lose." More >

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. More >

What Lies Ahead: A Perfect European Storm
Source: Kent Moors, Oil & Energy Investor  (4/6/12)
"The energy component of Europe's economic picture is punctuated by one overarching fact: Oil and natural gas, the two dominant energy flows, must be secured from somewhere else." More >

Small-Cap Ideas with Double-Digit Growth Potential: Frederick "Rick" Wise
Source: George S. Mack of The Life Sciences Report  (4/5/12)
You can own large medtech and diversified medical supply companies for low volatility and incremental upside in a trending economy (yawn. . .), but small- and mid-cap companies offer the real double-digit growth possibilities. In this exclusive interview with The Life Sciences Report, Analyst and Managing Director Frederick "Rick" Wise of Leerink Swann shares small-cap ideas that could wake up investors' portfolios. More >

Oil Distribution Hiccups Will Be Resolved: Alistair Toward
Source: Zig Lambo of The Energy Report  (4/5/12)
North America's oil and gas landscape is a crisscrossed map of distribution bottlenecks and price discrepancies. Nonetheless, opportunities abound for investors who know where to look, says PI Financial Analyst Alistair Toward, who expects a probable buildout in oil and gas "plumbing" to resolve North America's current distribution woes. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Toward discusses companies that are benefiting from low natural gas prices, naming several light and heavy oil producers on his radar. Even in troubled markets, he argues, investors should not stop searching for the Next Big Thing. More >

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." More >

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." More >

Into the Green: Lithium
Source: Rick Mills, Ahead of the Herd  (4/5/12)
"With the rechargeable battery industry and consumer electronics driving demand, forecasters believe lithium's price could as much as double in value in the near future." More >

E&P MLP Acquisition Boom Continues
Source: Hinds Howard, MLP HINDSight  (4/5/12)
"I expect MLP M&A activity to continue to be high, as well-capitalized explorers and producers will have the ability to pick up properties." More >