Streetwise Articles
Don't Overlook Gold Miner ETFs
Source: The Street, Don Dion (6/16/11)
"Beyond physical bullion, there are options gold-hungry investors should consider."
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Indian PM Jewelry Exports Zoom
Source: Commodity Online (6/16/11)
"India's gold and silver jewelry exports jumped by over 50% last month."
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Zambia's Copper Boom Helps Development
Source: Associated Press (6/16/11)
"The country has been able to cut inflation, increase growth rate."
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Aussie Miners Blast Queensland Farming Plan
Source: Courier Mail, John McCarthy (6/16/11)
"Queensland Resources Council-commissioned study finds strategic cropping land policy unreliable."
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Copper Exploration Hot Spots
Source: Resource Investing News, Leia Toovey (6/16/11)
"Explorers have been scouring BC, looking for new copper deposits."
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Is Chinese Manganese Supply Shrinking?
Source: Manganese Investing News, Michael Montgomery (6/16/11)
"China may lose 500–700 Kt./year of metal capacity in a few years."
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Gold & Silver: Waiting for August
Source: Jason Hamlin, Gold Stock Bull (6/15/11)
"Junior miners will play an explosive game of catch-up at year-end."
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Rick Rule & Brent Cook: Gold Correction to Bring Pawnbroker Paradise
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report (6/15/11)
Dreams of success seldom come true in the risky junior exploration sector but, assuming great success, investors have driven gold stock prices up into multiples of their true value. Judging from what they tell The Gold Report in this exclusive interview, that's how Global Resource Investors Founder Rick Rule and Exploration Insights Author Brent Cook see it. With so many stocks overvalued, they foresee a waterfall-style correction that will create what Rick might call a pawnbroker's paradise—a perfect scenario for investors who know when to take profits and when to buy back in.
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Gold Flash: Eurozone Now Buying
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault (6/15/11)
"European central banks are not selling gold—they're buying it."
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Investing in Gold and Silver
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster (6/15/11)
". . .during inflation, stagflation and deflation?"
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Gold, Silver Prices Rebound
Source: The Street, Alix Steel (6/15/11)
"As Greece erupts in debt-related protest, nervous investors seek safe havens."
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Copper May Fall on Chinese Inflation Curbs
Source: Bloomberg (6/15/11)
"Chinese inflation has topped the government's 4% target each month this year."
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Is It Time to Dig for Gold with Miners?
Source: NASDAQ (6/15/11)
"The GDX will go higher, but don't expect a smooth ride."
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Pentagon Presents Its First Energy Plan
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Keith Johnson (6/15/11)
"Plan aims to benefit both the battlefield and budget-conscious DC."
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Oil Companies Play Waiting Game on Libyan Crude
Source: The National, April Yee (6/15/11)
"How, with whom will they need to negotiate to revive mass production?"
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DOE Sets Aside $2B for Solar
Source: cnet, Candace Lombardi (6/15/11)
"Mojave Solar Project is expected to generate electricity for 53,000 homes annually."
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Oklahoma Tribe Unveils Solar Energy Project
Source: Associated Press, Murray Evans (6/15/11)
"Solar energy fits in with cultural values, economic development plans."
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White House Promotes a Smarter Grid
Source: MIT Technology Review, Kevin Bullis (6/15/11)
". . .but early efforts have been met with some consumer resistance."
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DOE Opens New Carbon-Capture Test Facility
Source: GreenAnswers, Ashley Featherman (6/15/11)
"Current C02 capture technologies cost too much for reduction apps."
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Indonesian Geothermal Push Heats Up
Source: Jakarta Globe, Stuart Biggs (6/15/11)
"The country is to geothermal power what the Middle East is to oil."
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DVRs Use More Energy than Your Fridge
Source: Gothamist (6/15/11)
"That magic machine uses even more energy than a flat screen TV."
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Clearing the Fog Around Lithium-ion Traction Batteries
Source: Wheels Unplugged (6/15/11)
"The patent race will unfold with third-generation lithium batteries."
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Group Aims to build Micro Hydro Project
Source: CBC (6/15/11)
"Emerging technology can insert a small turbine into a dam sluice gate."
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Ocean Energy Conference Underway in Maine
Source: Associated Press (6/15/11)
"Sen. Olympia Snowe championed offshore wind and underwater tidal power."
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Implications for Investors of the Dramatically Increasing Chinese Virtual Demand for Rare Earths
Source: Jack Lifton, Technology Metals Research (6/15/11)
"By 2015 at the latest, there will be virtually no heavy rare earth elements (HREEs) available outside of Chinese control."
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