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By Frank Holmes |
April 17, 2012
Gold bulls have plenty of room to graze in the stockyard these days as the investing herd migrated to other assets during the market’s steep climb in 2012. For the fourth time in the past year, gold bears outnumbered the bulls in Bloomberg’s weekly Gold Bull/Bear Sentiment Survey.
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By Eric McWhinnie |
March 5, 2012
The amount of volume during the sell-off in both gold and silver was simply staggering. In a matter of minutes, more than 150 million paper ounces of silver were sold into the market. This represents more silver than Mexico, the world’s largest producer, mines in an entire year.
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By Frank Holmes |
February 28, 2012
The World Gold Council (WGC) reaffirmed the power of the Love Trade in its 2011 Gold Demand Trends report released earlier this month. Gold demand grew 0.4% in 2011 despite a 28% year-over-year increase in bullion’s average price.
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By Adrian Ash |
September 20, 2011
We are now a decade into the current bull market in gold. Enquiring minds gathered for the LBMA conference in Montreal are asking how did we get here? What's driving the gold prices higher? And how much further might we still go?
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
September 14, 2011
Picking the right infrastructure projects will boost productivity throughout the US economy and massive stimulus packages that focus on creating jobs at home will become very popular with all governments.
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By Frank Holmes |
August 30, 2011
One market trend that seems to be attracting more and more attention is the large performance gap between gold bullion and gold stocks. The price of gold bullion has increased roughly 28% in 2011, while the S&P/TSX Gold Index was recently down 1%.
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By Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT |
June 22, 2011
In a word, no. Simply put, we have seen a correction or retracement of the massive gains of the past few years. There may be more backing and filling for a few months before the sector begins its next impulsive advance.
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By Frank Holmes |
June 20, 2011
While the party continues for gold bullion prices, stocks of gold companies have been a no-show. The NYSE Arca Gold Bugs Index has fallen more than 13% year-to-date and the Philadelphia Gold & Silver Index has toppled more than 16%.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
May 23, 2011
Copper is the key to the increased speed of modern high speed trains. New high-speed trains with their electric traction engines use from 3 to 4 tonnes of copper per train.
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By Karen Roche, Gordon Holmes |
September 23, 2010
Scott Koyich is a long time fan of gold and prides himself on finding hidden jewels the Street might want to see. He also sees a bright future for copper.
