Streetwise Articles
Gold Down Along with Stocks
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault (11/21/11)
"The U.S. dollar rallied, despite the congressional super committee's failure to agree on how to tackle the U.S. deficit."
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Rethinking Silver in Light of Deflationary Forces
Source: Clive Maund (11/21/11)
"If we do not see dramatic large scale intervention by the European Central Bank (ECB) involving a massive blast of QE, Europe will be finished shortly as a united economic entity, and after a possible temporary party to celebrate the demise of Europe, the U.S. Treasury market will collapse."
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Rare Earth Metals Stocks Heavy with Potential Profits
Source: David Zeiler, Money Morning (11/21/11)
"As the world builds more and more things that rely on rare earth metals—from hybrid car batteries to tablet computers to fiber optics—uses for them will continue to multiply."
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The Contrarian's Quandary
Source: Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault (11/21/11)
"The really contentious view might see gold causing a real shock and going still higher again in just the way it didn't three decades ago"
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Has the Bear Returned?
Source: Toby Connor, Gold Scents (11/21/11)
"The dollar index is currently on only the third week of this new intermediate cycle. Those cycles tend to run about 20 weeks, so there is potentially many more weeks of upside left before the dollar moves down into another significant correction, which presumably would drive the next bear market rally in stocks."
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Will Dividends Make Mining Shares Glitter More than Gold?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster (11/21/11)
"A trend is growing among precious metal minersthere is a solid commitment to pay a defined percentage of their cash flow by way of dividends."
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Gold Likely Entering Reactive Phase
Source: Clive Maund (11/21/11)
"For gold's strong uptrend to continue we need to see continued currency debasement and inflation and the maintenance of sufficient liquidity to head of any incipient credit crises that could quickly cause interest rates, which have been artificially suppressed for years now, to skyrocket."
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Precious Metals Charts Point to Higher Prices Part II
Source: Chris Vermeulen, TheGoldandOilGuy (11/21/11)
"Financial markets around the world are at a tipping point, meaning something really big is about to take place."
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Headline Risk Surrounds Gold and the S&P 500
Source: JW Jones, OptionsTradingSignals (11/21/11)
"The long-term time frame continues to remain technically positive for the yellow metal. As long as gold prices hold in their multiyear rising channel, higher prices remain likely."
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Rare Earth Rebirth
Source: Nick Hodge, Energy & Capital (11/21/11)
"With less than a handful of rare earth mines in operation outside of China, continued price fixing games, and the growing use of handheld electronics, any company with access to supply is going to fetch a premium market price."
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Natural Gas Storage at New High
Source: Zacks Equity Research (11/21/11)
"The current storage level—at 3.85 trillion cubic feet (Tcf)—is at an all-time high, eclipsing the previous record of 3.84 Tcf reached last November."
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Two Risky and Two Safe Investments for Your Portfolio
Source: Forbes, Panos Mourdoukoutas (11/20/11)
"After a big run-up, however, U.S. treasuries and precious metals may be the riskiest rather than the safest investments."
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Ron Struthers: Timing the Gold Market
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (11/18/11)
Every investor knows that it's hard to time the market. But Ron Struthers, editor of Struthers' Resource Stock Report and a 25-year investment veteran, has been able to weave his way in and out of the market with aplomb this year. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Struthers tells what he's seeing in his technical analysis that is signaling it's time to buy back in after selling off many gold equities in April.
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Technocrats Now, Strong Man Next?
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault (11/18/11)
"Now 'more Europe' is being pushed directly to voters as the only fix for Europe's mess."
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Don't Sweat the Correction in Gold
Source: Jeff Clark, Big Gold (11/18/11)
"When the gold price falls, come back in three months and see if you're still worried. The price will recover and, in time, fetch new highs."
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Gold Rallies after 'Hard Hit'
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault (11/18/11)
"Gold rallies after hard hit; ECB now only significant bond buyer; UK has lots more scope for QE"
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Not Your Father's Gold Market
Source: Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault (11/18/11)
"Where gold amid the Great Depression was all about three T'steeth, trinkets and terrorit had morphed into a combination of Krugerrands, futures, and 'certificates of confiscation,' government bonds paying way less than inflation."
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Gold Demand Hits New Record with Central Bank Buying Up Sixfold
Source: Jason Hamlin (11/18/11)
" Q311 gold demand reached 1,053.9 tons, an increase of 6% compared to the same period last year."
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Too Much Money, Not Enough Gold
Source: Andrew Mickey, Wealth Daily (11/18/11)
"Gold prices are on the verge of a significant breakout."
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Curtis Trimble: Be Nimble, Quick and Play the Shales
Source: George Mack of The Energy Report (11/17/11)
With energy prices flat to down in a murky global economy, MKM Partners Managing Director Curtis Trimble says investor agility is essential. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Trimble talks about his favorite names and some of the fuel-rich plays that make them interesting.
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Five Prevalent Misconceptions About MLPs
Source: Hinds Howard, MLP Hindsight (11/17/11)
"There are retail and institutional MLP investors that don't know much about them, some of them may even know things about MLPs that are not true."
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Is It a Good Time to Invest in Pipeline Companies?
Source: Marin Katusa, Casey Research (11/17/11)
"The entire existence of these companies is premised upon their pipelines, so not surprisingly it's their assets we investigate first."
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Crop-Killing Drought to Push Food Inflation Even Higher
Source: David Zeiler, Money Morning (11/17/11)
"'The food will be available; you're just going to pay a higher price.'"
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Renewable Investments Growing Fast
Source: Brianna Panzica, Energy & Capital (11/17/11)
"By 2020, expanding investments in wind and solar power projects could rise to $395 billion."
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In Mining, the Trend Is Small
Source: Canadian Business, David Garofalo (11/17/11)
“Another phenomenon is quietly playing out in Canada: a continued strengthening of merger-and-acquisition activity in the mining sector, which could boost what are now severely compressed equity valuations.”
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