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By Peter Krauth |
November 30, 2012
Look for silver prices to keep rising in the years ahead. That being said, 2013 is likely to be pivotal for the more affordable precious metal. Now that gold has set and surpassed its own all-time highs, look for silver to be next.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
November 19, 2012
Mining companies are now stepping back in time and are shifting exploration efforts to ever more remote, geo-politically challenged locations in a search for laterite ore because of a lack of discovery of new nickel sulfide deposits.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
November 15, 2012
Gold edged down on Thursday, but the looming US fiscal cliff, Eurozone debt problems and rising Middle East tensions continue to enhance the yellow metal’s safe haven appeal.
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By Tony Daltorio |
November 1, 2012
If asked to name the top performing commodity of the past decade, not many would answer silver because of its notorious volatility. Yet, according to Lloyds TSB, silver prices have delivered the best gains since 2002.
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By Rob Marstrand |
October 10, 2012
Gold is going to benefit from a further move of real interest rates into negative territory. There is a long-standing inverse correlation between real interest rates and the price of gold. The Fed has clearly signaled that it will take its eye off its 2% inflation target.
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By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis |
October 9, 2012
For the investing public, the manipulation of the silver market is now well documented, transparent and quite obvious. No longer is an elaborate or paranoid conspiracy theory required.
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By Brian Sylvester |
October 4, 2012
The worst is over, postulates the Euro Pacific Canada analyst. But is modest appreciation in rare earth stocks a symptom of across-the-board improvement in equities, or have fundamentals in the space changed for the better?
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By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis |
September 12, 2012
Those with very deep pockets can drive up the price of just about any commodity, but typically only for a very short amount of time. Unless of course they have access to a virtually unlimited supply of paper money.
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By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis |
September 6, 2012
History remembers the last nominal high in the price of silver before the more recent high of $49.77 seen in April of 2011 as an anomaly that was largely induced by the Hunt brothers’ purported attempt to corner the market by buying large quantities of silver and silver futures.
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By Mickey Fulp |
August 7, 2012
Recently a plethora of alternative names have been proposed and promoted for what were once known as the specialty or minor metals. These mostly obscure elements span the gamut from the lightest to the heaviest on the periodic table.