Low China Imports, Strong Dollar Pressure Copper
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Tatyana Shumsky  (5/23/11)
"Many factories are relying on 'hand-to-mouth' purchases to feed production lines." More >

Silver More Explosive than Gold
Source: Julian Phillips  (5/23/11)
"Should silver be considered as financial security, like gold?" More >

Turkmen Leader Opens Gold Palace
Source: Associated Press  (5/20/11)
"The $250M palace replaces the more squat golden-domed one blocks away." More >

Rick Rule: Capitalize on Gold Stock Volatility
Source: Rick Rule  (5/20/11)
Junior mining is a people game. In this Gold Report exclusive, an excerpt from his speech at the Casey Research Conference, Global Resource Investments Founder Rick Rule advises going for the big wins by betting on the best teams with the best chances of discovery using a global counterintuitive approach. More >

Replacing Strauss-Kahn: Who's Next at IMF?
Source: Voice of America  (5/20/11)
"The race to find a successor is underway, just a day after he resigned." More >

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Kevin Puil: Copper Stocks Gleaming in Gold's Glow
Source: Sally Lowder of The Gold Report  (5/20/11)
Blinded by the glare of gold's rocketing rise over the last several years, investors may want to follow the leads of the Barricks, Thompson Creek Metals, Goldcorps and other major miners targeting the copper space, according to Kevin Puil, portfolio manager at Malcolm H. Gissen & Associates and senior analyst for its Encompass Fund. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, Kevin tells us that major gold miners increasingly want to diversify and are turning to the red metal on the opposite end of the economic spectrum. More >

FTC Sues Precious Metal Scammers
Source: Wallet Pop, Jorgen Wouters  (5/20/11)
"Con-artist couple swindled seniors out of tens of millions of dollars." More >

China Tightens Rare Earth Rules
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Yajun Zhang  (5/19/11)
"China to impose quotas on ferroalloys with more than 10% REEs Friday." More >

George Soros Sells His Gold
Source: Telegraph, Richard Evans  (5/19/11)
"Not everyone shares his view; Paulson left his SPDR holding unchanged." More >

Eat Gold (Before It Melts)
Source: Business Insider, Laurie DePrete  (5/19/11)
"Tequila goldsicles pack a wallop and a $1,000 price tag." More >

Short Covering Led to Silver's Parabolic Rise
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (5/19/11)
"Mainstream pundits and reporters assumed it was speculative buying." More >

Sex, Lies and Ticker Tape
Source: Resource Investor, Jon Nadler  (5/19/11)
"Market bets now focus on if Fed action on rates comes in 2011 or 2012." More >

China Is Now Top Gold Bug
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Carolyn Cui and Rhiannon Hoyle  (5/19/11)
"China's growing middle-class has a voracious appetite for gold." More >

Hugo Salinas Price Interview: Returning to a Silver Peso
Source: Dollar Vigilante  (5/19/11)
"What if a silver coin could remain permanently in circulation with paper money?" More >

Copper's Talking Infrastructure
Source: Richard Mills, AheadOfTheHerd   (5/19/11)
"There's still time for investors to capitalize on the coming infrastructure boom." More >

Clive Maund: Mitigate Investment Risk Until End of Dollar Rally
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (5/18/11)
Clive Maund returns to The Gold Report to provide some keen insight into the U.S. dollar's recent surge. "Be patient," he says, "because once the dollar rally is over, an excellent buying opportunity will be in the offing." Clive says the Fed is doing all it can to get investors out of commodities and into Treasuries before it unleashes QE3, and with it a new round of inflationary pressure. Read more in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report. More >

Base Metals Recover on Global Cues
Source: Business Standard  (5/18/11)
"Industrial metals rebounded from Tuesday's losses, supported by weakening dollar coupled with improved demand from China." More >

Silver ETFs Experience Record Trading Volumes as Prices Slip
Source: Resource Investing News, David van der Linde  (5/18/11)
"Many investors are shedding their holdings in this volatile precious metals market." More >

Indian Investors Turn to Gold ETFs
Source: Mineweb, Shivom Seth  (5/18/11)
"Gold ETFs are the flavor of the season in India." More >

Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange Launches Gold Futures
Source: Reuters  (5/18/11)
"The HKMEx is hoping to cash in on explosive investment demand for gold from mainland China." More >

Commodities Advance
Source: Bloomberg, Kim Kyoungwha and Glenys Sim  (5/18/11)
"The outlook for increased demand from emerging markets prompted speculation that this month's decline was excessive." More >

Paulson, Soros at Odds Over Gold's Direction
Source: The Street, Robert Holmes  (5/18/11)
"Hedge fund managers go head-to-head on gold's future." More >

World's Biggest Gold Ring Now Worth $3M
Source: Sify  (5/18/11)
"While it cost $547,000 to make the ring in the year 2000, the current value is worth over USD3M." More >

Silver Price: The Least You Should Worry About
Source: Jeff Clark, Big Gold  (5/17/11)
"What silver expert Andy Schectman sees everyday might just compel you to count how many ounces you own. . ." More >

American Vanadium: Critical to U.S. Industry
Source: William Mbaho, BNW News  (5/17/11)
"Without doubt, vanadium is growing into one of the most important metals about which no one has ever heard." More >