Streetwise Articles
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."
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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."
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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"
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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'steeth, trinkets and terrorit had morphed into a combination of Krugerrands, futures, and 'certificates of confiscation,' government bonds paying way less than inflation."
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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."
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Too Much Money, Not Enough Gold
Source: Andrew Mickey, Wealth Daily (11/18/11)
"Gold prices are on the verge of a significant breakout."
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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.”
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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.'"
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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.
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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.
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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.'"
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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.
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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?"
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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."
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Pocket Full of Euro Gold: How Gold and Oil Will Fare Against the Dollar and Euro
Source: Adam Lass, Wealth Daily (11/16/11)
"Someone's gonna print a boatload of money—and soon. And when that happens, assets like gold and oil will rise in price."
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Pocket Full of Euro Gold: How Gold and Oil Will Fare against the Dollar and Euro
Source: Adam Lass, Wealth Daily (11/16/11)
"Someone's gonna print a boatload of money—and soon. And when that happens, assets like gold and oil will rise in price."
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Brian Chin: Rare Earth Metals Producers with First-Mover Advantage
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Critical Metals Report (11/15/11)
The rare earth elements sector is poised for long-term growth, but Brian Chin, a research analyst with Gabelli & Company Inc., recommends investors opt for near-term producers. In this exclusive interview with The Critical Metals Report, he shares his top picks.
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Dollar Teetering on the Abyss
Source: Toby Connor, Gold Scents (11/15/11)
"Sometime in the next two weeks the dollar is going to drop down into its next daily cycle bottom."
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John Kaiser: Gold as a Positive Economic Indicator
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report (11/14/11)
A $3,000/ounce gold spike could boost equity valuation. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, John Kaiser, editor of Kaiser Research Online, shares the catalysts that could propel gold and silver stock prices higher in 2012.
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Molycorp Stumbles, Avalon and Lynas Delay, Ucore Shines
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades (11/14/11)
"Today, the Goliaths are stumbling as they finally have to come up against their moment of truth."
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Will Gold Offer Protection from a Thanksgiving Feast?
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet (11/14/11)
"Although central banks may be in denial about inflation, investors should strongly consider protecting themselves from rising inflation and lax monetary policies by allocating a portion of their portfolio in gold."
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Gold and Silver Miners Lead Market Rebound
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades (11/14/11)
"Investors are beginning to look at the gold miners as leaders in a market, which is desperately looking for strength."
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The Final Market Rally Up Before the Big Leg Down Is Near an End
Source: David Banister, MarketTrendForecast (11/14/11)
"The current S&P 500 rally is part of a normal retracement of the 1370 highs to 1074 lows that similarly occurred in the 2008 rally off the first major market drop.
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Platinum: The 'Cheapest' Precious Metal. . .
Source: Willem Weytjens, Profitimes (11/14/11)
"Gold is trading near all-time highs, while platinum is trading about $700 below its all-time high reached in 2008."
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Geordie Mark: Iron Ore Still Strong
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (11/11/11)
In an environment of declining steel prices, Geordie Mark, mining analyst with Haywood Securities in Vancouver, nonetheless believes that iron ore juniors are poised for a rebound. Read his reasons for optimism in this exclusive Gold Report interview.
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