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." More >

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." More >

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." More >

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." More >

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. More >

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." More >

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." More >

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" More >

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's—teeth, trinkets and terror—it had morphed into a combination of Krugerrands, futures, and 'certificates of confiscation,' government bonds paying way less than inflation." More >

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." More >

Too Much Money, Not Enough Gold
Source: Andrew Mickey, Wealth Daily��(11/18/11)
"Gold prices are on the verge of a significant breakout." More >

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. More >

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." More >

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." More >

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.'" More >

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." More >

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.” More >

Here's Why Goldman Sachs Is Staying Long Gold
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet��(11/16/11)
"'We expect U.S. real interest rates to remain lower for longer, supporting higher gold prices through 2012.'" More >

Brent Cook: How to Improve Your Odds
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report ��(11/16/11)
In the high-risk junior resource sector, 95% of the companies investors might choose will fail to hit paydirt. For your best chance to pick winners from among the remaining 5%, Exploration Insights Editor Brent Cook has some advice—including ideas about where to find good advice. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, conducted during the 2011 New Orleans Investment Conference, Cook makes the case that selecting juniors whose properties are most likely to pass the drill test also gives investors an ideal, built-in exit strategy. More >

Adrian Day: Tax-Loss Selling May Hit Gold Stocks Soon
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report��(11/16/11)
After a big spike up and an overdue correction in the gold price, Adrian Day, chairman and CEO of Adrian Day Asset Management, says that the king of metals is settling back into the steady rise in price that we've grown accustomed to over the past several years. He expects that to continue because the demand drivers have not gone away. But gold equities? As Day tells The Gold Report in this exclusive interview—conducted during the New Orleans Investment Conference—their lackluster performance in light of the gold price's ever-upward march is "just astonishing." To top it off, tax-loss selling at year-end may mean these equities have yet to hit their bottoms. More >

Euro Crisis "Gets Worse Every Day", Britain May Get "A Lot More QE", Gold Jewelry Preferred to Platinum in China
Source: Ben Traynor, Bullion Vault��(11/16/11)
"'Gold jewelry has been in great demand due to the rising price of gold and the perception of gold as a store of value.'" More >

Thom Calandra: Taking Calculated Yet Extreme Risks in Mining
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report��(11/16/11)
Thom Calandra, a long-time journalist and mining investor, knows what risks to stomach in search of jaw-dropping returns. Geopolitical risk, for one. Karen Roche of The Gold Report caught up with him at The New Orleans Investment Conference to see what this 30-year veteran of analyzing financial markets took away from the event. In this exclusive interview, Calandra revealed what mining gems he'll be eyeing for his portfolio and why he'll never invest without setting foot on a project first. More >

Gold Producers Lead While Developers and Explorers Lag
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold��(11/16/11)
"Though we are likely at least two to three years from the birth of a bubble, does it mean the non-producers will continue to underperform in the meantime?" More >

Is Germany Eyeing the Exit?
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault��(11/16/11)
"Germany has come to realize that it faces a choice: fiscal integration or debt monetization. It has chosen the former." More >

Peak Oil for Dummies
Source: Ian Cooper, Wealth Daily��(11/16/11)
"Peak oil has nothing to do with running out of oil; it is the "easy to get to" oil is gone." More >