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By James Ramelli |
February 14, 2013
As debates over the sequester ramp up and uncertainty over the debt ceiling looms, it is likely that investors will look to buy metals as a “safe-haven” trade. With increasing demand by commercial and industrial manufacturing, silver should see some significant upside in months to come.
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By James Stafford |
August 2, 2012
As markets continue to yo-yo and commentators deliver mixed forecasts, investors are faced with some tough decisions and have important questions that need answering. The commentator behind Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis gives some of them a shot.
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By Jen Alic |
July 19, 2012
The US solar industry is undergoing some serious growing pains, with bankruptcies and mergers a necessary part of that process; meanwhile, competition from Chinese solar panels has many believing that American solar simply cannot compete. Not so.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
March 22, 2012
If it works, we will get unlimited amounts of clean energy for low cost in about 20 years. Oil will only be used to make plastics and fertilizer, taking the price down to $10 for domestic production only. The crude left in the Middle East will become worthless.
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By Scott Wright |
August 1, 2011
Nuclear power has been a hot topic recently. And as a result, the price action of its input commodity has been quite schizophrenic. Investors and speculators are in a state of great wonderment over what to expect from this intriguing mineral.
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By Karen Roche |
June 23, 2011
Are there viable options to nuclear power for clean energy? Is another uranium boom on the horizon? Or should we invest our resource dollars in thorium? Resource sector experts Brent Cook and Rick Rule give their views.
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By Jeb Handwerger |
April 8, 2011
There have been major developments this week in the rare earth arena, which could hold significance for the expansion into Europe of Molycorp and the development of a US domestic supply chain of rare earths.
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By Marc Davis |
March 8, 2011
Vanadium has been creating quite a buzz in clean energy circles of late. And that is expected to give a big boost to production of the little-known metal in North America, including the first vanadium mine being developed in Nevada.
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By Jeb Handwerger |
March 2, 2011
All over the world nuclear is being recognized as an integral part of clean energy generation in a developing and expanding world. More than $8 billion in federal loan guarantees are slated for the first nuclear plant in the US in close to 30 years.
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By Jeb Handwerger |
February 24, 2011
Investors should expose themselves to the potential supply-demand constraints and rise in oil prices by purchasing developers with major assets in clean energy mineral sectors or by diversifying into new ETFs which track these sectors.