Poor Communication, Fed Style
Source: Ben Traynor  (11/25/11)
"One gets the sense that the Fed now hopes to raise inflationary expectations and thus stimulate economic activity by merely hinting that QE3 will happen, in the hope of never having to actually do it." More >

Gold Falls on Black Friday
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (11/25/11)
U.S. dollar gold prices looked set for a second weekly drop in a row Friday while stocks, commodities and government bond prices also lost ground as Belgium became the latest country to be sucked into the European sovereign bond crisis. More >

Is Gold Going to Fall to $1,500?
Source: Julian D.W. Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (11/25/11)
"The investment climate is very wintery from the bottom of the financial structures right up to the markets themselves." More >

Stock Market Report: It's a Turkey
Source: Giuseppe Borrelli, The Unpunctured Cycle  (11/24/11)
"The markets haven't changed all that much this past month, but the potential for a significant decline is increasing with each passing day." More >

Jordan Roy-Byrne: Gold Stocks Due for a Breakout Soon
Source: Special to The Gold Report  (11/23/11)
Gold stocks may have been underperforming investor expectations for many months, but that could be changing very soon. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT, explains how he uses relative strength analysis to pick winners for the readers of The Daily Gold Newsletter. His technical work points to a turnaround in precious metals stock prices in the coming months, leading to a huge market top near the end of the decade. In the meantime, investors can feast on some of his favorite recommendations, which he describes in detail. More >

Is Gold Still the Answer for Investors?
Source: Bud Conrad, Casey Research  (11/23/11)
"There is no reason to fear gold pullbacks and every reason to expect even more positive returns in the gold mining stocks that are still catching up to the rapid gold rise." More >

China Changing the Global Gold Market
Source: Larry Spears, Money Morning  (11/23/11)
"There's another effect of this push for gold ownership: it's dislodging the dollar as the world's main reserve currency." More >

Headline Risk Surrounds Gold & S&P 500
Source: J.W. Jones, Resource Investor  (11/23/11)
"Uncertainty surrounds the commodities market as the collapse of MF Global has interrupted traditional capital flows and broad based volume around the world." More >

Time for U.S. to Focus on Mining
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades  (11/23/11)
"Never have so many road blocks been thrown into the paths of uranium and rare earths. Sooner or later the realization must dawn on our leaders that these sectors represent true wealth and the most profitable places to invest stimulus funds." More >

Gold Slides in Choppy Conditions
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (11/23/11)
"Negative sentiment surrounding the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis and concerns that some economies are heading for a 'double-dip' recession continues to lift market uncertainty and consequent choppy conditions." More >

Gareth Hatch: Navigating the Rare Earth Metals Landscape
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Critical Metals Report  (11/22/11)
Gareth Hatch, co-founder of Technology Metals Research LLC, gives us the lay of the land in the rare earth sector. Many variables are shaping this developing market, and from calculating global demand to anticipating individual project costs, data makes the difference in determining viable investments. Gareth Hatch gets down to the nitty gritty in this Critical Metals exclusive, and comes up with some promising projects in the works. More >

New Greek Drachma Would Be Doomed
Source: Axel Merk, Merk Funds  (11/22/11)
"Introducing a new currency in a debt-laden country that has been unable to eliminate its primary deficit may be doomed for failure, but since when has bad policy stopped politicians from trying to implement it?" More >

Top-Rated Energy Investing Advice Revisited
Source: The Editors, The Energy Report  (11/22/11)
'Tis the season to count our blessings. At The Energy Report, we are grateful for all the distinguished experts who share their sage advice on the oil, gas, MLP, uranium and alternative energy investing sector day in and day out. To thank you, our dedicated readers, we are sharing some of the most-read insights published here in the last year. We appreciate your support and look forward to navigating the ups and downs of the energy market together in the coming years. More >

When Flat Feels Great
Source: Hinds Howard, MLP HINDSight  (11/22/11)
"MLPs shook off the largest equity issuance week of all time last week and managed to finish 0.8% higher." More >

Three Doomsday Scenarios: What Happens if the Eurozone Breaks Up?
Source: Martin Hutchinson, Global Investing Strategist, Money Morning  (11/22/11)
"At the end of the day there are no easy answers on this one. The best you can do is to find markets with little economic connection to Europe—and even that's not easy." More >

In Nervous Market, Gold Gains Respectability
Source: The New York Times, Geraldine Fabrikant  (11/22/11)
"The metal has become the insurance policy of choice for many sophisticated investors." More >

Chris Thompson: Investors Not Quite Ready to Embrace 'Ugly Sister' Silver
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (11/21/11)
Volatility in the markets overall, and particularly in the silver price, continues to deter investors, even the major producers, from stepping in on silver juniors. However, Chris Thompson, equity research analyst with Haywood Securities, names some attractive opportunities in South and Central America in this exclusive Gold Report interview. More >

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." More >

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." More >

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." More >

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" More >

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." More >

Will Dividends Make Mining Shares Glitter More than Gold?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (11/21/11)
"A trend is growing among precious metal miners—there is a solid commitment to pay a defined percentage of their cash flow by way of dividends." More >

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." More >

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." More >