Gold Gains as Fed Chairman Points to Continued Stimulus
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (3/26/12)
"Ben Bernanke said the U.S. economy still needs 'continued accommodative polices' despite recent signs of improvement." More >

Gold and China: Where the Bulls and Bears Square Off
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors  (3/26/12)
"Gold and China are two areas that have been caught in the bear trap this week, but we believe the gold and China bulls still have room to run." More >

Stealth Bottom Coming in Gold Stocks
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (3/26/12)
"The miners are not only extremely oversold but recent price action suggests a bottoming process is beginning." More >

Can Bernanke Break the Dollar Rally?
Source: Toby Connor, Gold Scents  (3/24/12)
"Bernanke has steered the Titanic straight into the iceberg and there's no turning back." More >

Early-Stage Investing Opportunities: James West and Tobias Tretter
Source: Sally Lowder of The Gold Report   (3/23/12)
The Midas Letter Opportunity Fund, a new niche fund, focuses on early-stage micro-cap miners in the junior resource sector. This sector has been an underperformer in recent months despite high gold prices. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, the fund's founders, Tobias Tretter, the managing director of Commodity Capital AG, and James West, publisher of The Midas Letter, explain why they are bullish on micro-cap miners even in the face of improving economic numbers that may stall gold's rise and name some juniors they expect to shine. More >

What Does Mali's Coup Mean for Miners?
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (3/23/12)
Investors are holding their breath after a military mutiny and coup March 22 in Mali, one of West Africa's most established democracies. This Gold Report exclusive delves behind the headlines to analyze the coup's impact on miners.

More >

The Curse
Source: Eric Coffin, HRA Hard Rock Analyst  (3/23/12)
"Pullbacks in resource stocks seem to follow on the heels of the PDAC convention. So far, this month is looking like this annual scourge is alive and well and making life miserable for resource stock traders yet again. Precious metals have to stabilize after their recent fall but there will be room for gains once that happens." More >

Inter-Citic CEO on Gold, China and Stocks
Source: Thom Calandra, Baby Bulls Twits   (3/23/12)
"A China-centric gold developer says China's consumer price inflation is understated and real estate developers will melt down if the nation's banks step away from largely vacant offices, subdivisions and warehouses. The informed warning is good for gold." More >

Gold Stock Panic Levels
Source: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence  (3/23/12)
"As long as fat profit streams continue for gold miners, the immutable law of long-term stock pricing guarantees gold stocks will eventually be bid up to reflect their earnings." More >

Gold Swerves to Avoid the Cross of Death
Source: Bob Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (3/22/12)
"As investors, maybe we need to consider the possibility of an extended period of consolidation with not much more to look forward to than range-trading and sideways movement." More >

Why Gold Can Go the Distance
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors  (3/22/12)
"Historically, negative real interest rates (where the inflationary rate is greater than the current interest rate) combined with global stimulative money supply efforts have been an especially powerful combination for gold prices." More >

Mining and Metals Outlook
Source: Zacks Equity Research  (3/22/12)
"Armed with healthy balance sheets, reduced economic uncertainty and a pent-up demand for new projects, we expect companies in the industry to accelerate deal activity with a re-focus on consolidation." More >

The Gold Sector Is On Sale: Michael Fowler
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report Interviewed on 3/14/12   (3/21/12)
Michael Fowler, senior mining analyst with Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon sees small- and mid-cap junior producers and developers as the "sweet spot" in the gold equities space, and provides a basket of names to consider in each space. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, he also shares his views on the irresponsibility of the "new paradigm" of large-scale financings now in vogue. More >

Have Gold and Silver Entered a Bear Market?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (3/21/12)
"Traders are trying to translate the short-term strength of the dollar to a weakness in gold. Their influence is short term." More >

How to Trade Gold with ETFs and Options
Source: Larry Spears, Money Morning  (3/21/12)
"For trading purposes, you can find some pretty good proxies for gold futures that require substantially less cash up front and carry significantly lower risk." More >

Winning the Rare Earth Economic War: Luisa Moreno
Source: JT Long of The Critical Metals Report  (3/20/12)
China's sudden cuts to rare earth export quotas and domestic production marked the beginning of a Rare Earth Economic War, proposes Jacob Securities' Senior Mining and Metals Analyst Luisa Moreno. The good news is that partnerships between end-users and mining companies may just be the secret weapon to level the playing field for critical metals producers operating beyond China's borders. In this exclusive interview with The Critical Metals Report, Moreno points to the companies that are closest to delivering high-quality goods for the benefit of manufacturers and investors alike. More >

Iran Says Gold Is Money
Source: Louis James, Casey Research  (3/20/12)
"As long as the sanctions remain in force and the Iranian government has limited access to international currency markets, gold will remain an obvious way to settle transactions." More >

A Massive Spike in the Price of Silver Is Imminent
Source: Hubert Moolman  (3/20/12)
"I expect that significant value will soon be diverted from the general stock market to silver and gold, causing prices to rally significantly, until these metals also become overvalued." More >

Gold Mining in West Africa Promises Growth: Mark Lackey
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (3/19/12)
Mark Lackey, chief investment strategist with Pope & Company, sees particular promise among small-cap gold equities in West Africa. Burkina Faso and Mali offer good topography and stable, democratically elected governments with little interest in economic nationalism. Given Lackey's view that gold will float between $1,600 and $1,800/ounce this year, he says in this exclusive Gold Report interview that now might be a good time for investors to look to Africa for upside potential. More >

Europe's QE3 Will Boost Gold and Silver
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades  (3/19/12)
"Eventually, investors will realize that the monetary metals can do well in both a deflationary risk-off environment as well as an inflationary risk-on environment and the trend will turn significantly higher as it has for the past decade." More >

Precious Metals Are Decoupling from the Stock Market
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (3/19/12)
"The S&P 500 is nearing resistance and the precious metals sector is testing its December low. A successful retest of the low in many markets (juniors, metals, silver stocks) should be a signal that the market has confirmed its bottom." More >

Good as Gold!
Source: Guiseppi Borelli, The Unpunctured Cycle  (3/19/12)
"Everyone is afraid of gold right now and the media is doing its best to stoke that fire, but now is the time to buy." More >

Gold, Silver, Oil and the Fear Index Trends
Source: Chris Vermeulen, The Gold and Oil Guy  (3/18/12)
"Gold will look bullish around $1,600/oz, gold miners (GDX) around $48/share, and silver around $30/oz, but we need to see one more wave of strong distribution selling for that to take place." More >

Canada Sees Mining Resurgence: Scott Jobin-Bevans
Source: Sally Lowder and Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (3/16/12)
Amid the bustle of the 80th Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention in Toronto, The Gold Report sat down with PDAC President Scott Jobin-Bevans for his take on the challenges the mining industry faces. In this exclusive interview, he covers a wide range of topics, from skilled labor shortages to the trials of mining in remote northern Canada. More >

When to Acquire Silver, the Metal of Emperors?
Source: Bob Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (3/16/12)
"To meet demand, silver suppliers have had to run down their stockpiles. However, this solution has only a limited time scale before it becomes depleted, thus limiting the supply and forcing prices up." More >