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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
May 8, 2012
Will people pleeease stop incessantly nattering about the possibility of China dropping the dollar as a reserve currency? What else are they going to use? Monopoly money? Taiwanese dollars? Collectable postage stamps?
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By Brian Sylvester |
May 2, 2012
Ongoing inflation pressures and China's investments in the African gold supply chain point to a higher gold price according to the editor of Stansberry & Associates' S&A Resource Report. He outlines companies whose equities should catch up to the higher gold price.
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By Brian Sylvester |
April 19, 2012
Resource investors are always looking for the next untapped region and president and founder of the Cambodian Association of Mining and Exploration Companies thinks he has found it.
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By Martin Hutchinson |
April 2, 2012
Singapore is a relatively small economy. But its exalted position in wealth, economic freedom and clean government and business make it a country that is a highly attractive place to invest in. That's why its current modest P/E ratio is so surprising.
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By Philip Burgert |
February 10, 2012
The most optimistic of projections suggests a shortage of 20,000 tonnes of critical rare earth metals is likely to develop by 2015, a review of the sector’s status at the Investing in African Mining Indaba conference here this week concluded.
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By Philip Burgert |
February 10, 2012
Markets for tantalum metals used primarily in electronics could face short supplies by as early as 2014 in part because of reduced Australian production and impending restrictions from the US Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law.
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By Philip Burgert |
February 9, 2012
Demand for cobalt used in cellular phones and electric vehicle batteries is expected to remain strong but the sector could be plagued by supply disruptions due to logistics and infrastructure problems and a looming threat of export quotas .
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By Chris Munford |
February 9, 2012
Analysis of the platinum group metal (PGM) markets looking at traditional supply and demand fundamentals does not explain the price levels for these metals today. Only when investment inflows are taken into account does the picture become clear.
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By Philip Burgert |
February 8, 2012
Global copper consumption is expected to grow 1.2% in 2012 to reach 20,349-million metric tons, with China accounting for the bulk of the demand and within China, the health of the construction sector will be the main risk to copper demand.
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By Jon Nadler |
February 8, 2012
Gold prices meandered on either side of the "unchanged" marker this morning and orbited around the $1,745 area as the US dollar did not appear to pierce the 78.50 level on the trade-weighted index following yesterday’s euro-centric optimism-induced sell-off.
