Streetwise Articles
Baby, You Cannot Drive My $220K Car
Source: Resource Investor, Jon Nadler (6/9/11)
"Platinum and palladium continue to march toward higher price ground."
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Hold PMs into a Market Selloff
Source: GoldSeek, Peter Cooper (6/9/11)
"A buy-and-hold strategy makes more investment fortunes than manic trading."
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Can Copper Withstand Ailing U.S. Economy?
Source: Copper Investing News, Leia Toovey (6/9/11)
"Copper report forecasts worldwide demand at 24.82 Mt. by 2015."
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Gold Targets Popular with Aussie Cofunded Drill Program
Source: Ministerial Media Statements, Norman Moore (6/9/11)
"Australia's drill program provides up to 50% of drilling costs."
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Gold Buying in India Dries Up with Monsoons
Source: The Economic Times (6/9/11)
"Farmers, the traditional buyers, rushed in to buy equipment on early summer monsoon rains."
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Global Mining Growth Drains SA's Pool of Engineers
Source: Mining Weekly, Loni Prinsloo (6/9/11)
"Mining giants are swiping up South Africa's well-trained engineers."
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Rising REE Prices Hit Downstream Industries
Source: Business China (6/9/11)
"In China, the price of dysprosium is now changing every two days."
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World Becomes More Dependent on Coal
Source: Business Insider, Gregor MacDonald (6/8/11)
"Global coal consumption grew a whopping 7.60% in 2010."
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$460K Gold Nugget's Authenticity Questioned
Source: Ballarat Courier, Tom McIlroy (6/8/11)
"Auctioneer confirms he now believes the nugget was not found locally."
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Jason Mann: Silver and Gold Exposure Advised
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (6/8/11)
Finding great values in precious metals, Freestone Capital Senior Analyst Jason Mann explains why roughly one-third of the firm's $2.1B assets under management is invested in non-traditional assets in this Gold Report exclusive.
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Gold and the Collapsing Dollar
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster (6/8/11)
"Is the UN Economic Division incompetent?"
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Our Economic Future: From Best to Worst Case
Source: Doug Casey, Casey Research (6/8/11)
"The essential advice remains the same: Own gold and silver."
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NA Miners Seek Dialogue with Peru's Humala
Source: Reuters (6/8/11)
"Juniors in Peru urge President-Elect Humala to engage with mining industry."
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John Embry: Big Summer for Gold
Source: Mineweb (6/8/11)
"Gold tends to take a breather during the summer, but this year should be different."
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U.S. Dodd-Frank Law 'Stigmatizing' Africa's Gold?
Source: Mining Weekly, Martin Creamer (6/8/11)
"DRC's tragedies of war can't be ignored, but law not intended to hurt miners."
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Gold, Silver Prices Bust on Bernanke
Source: The Street, Alix Steel (6/8/11)
"Bernanke's speech was a mixed bag for gold prices."
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IEA, U.S. Lawmaker Call for OPEC Battle Plan
Source: Reuters, Timothy Gardner (6/8/11)
"Rep. Edward Markey asks Obama administration to tap strategic oil reserves."
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Tanzania Considers "Super Tax"
Source: Reuters (6/8/11)
"Tanzania mulls super-profit minerals tax to fund its development plan."
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Russia, Norway Resolve Oil-Rich Barents Sea dispute
Source: AHN (6/8/11)
"The deal will divide the disputed region into two equal parts."
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Nanoscale Conductors Enable New Battery Architecture
Source: IEEE Spectrum, Dexter Johnson (6/8/11)
"Tenfold improvement seen in liquid-flow batteries energy density."
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Green Jobs Dominate Fastest-Hiring Industries
Source: Forbes, William Pentland (6/8/11)
"Clean energy policies are putting scores of U.S. citizens to work."
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Western Australia Committed to Uranium
Source: Mining Weekly, Mariaan Webb (6/8/11)
"WA uranium exploration expenditure increased by 87% last year."
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Golden Age for Gas to Benefit Canada
Source: National Post, Peter Foster (6/8/11)
"Latest report represents a major revision in the IEA's energy outlook."
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Energy Consumption Highest Since 1970s
Source: The Street, Joseph Deaux (6/8/11)
"Global energy consumption rates rose 5.6% as demand for all energy forms grew strongly."
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Iran to Boost Uranium Enrichment
Source: Financial Times, Najmeh Bozorgmehr and James Blitz (6/8/11)
"Tehran insists its uranium production is for peaceful, electricity-related purposes."
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