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By Sally Lowder |
May 23, 2012
In a sector where the playing field is not always level, the chairman and CEO of rare earth supplier American Elements, makes a case for more cooperation. Silver insists that junior miners finally have an opportunity to develop the US resource and manufacturing sectors.
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By Jon Nadler |
May 23, 2012
Another day of substantial selling in the precious metals complex brought gold prices right back to the $1,550 value zone, raising legitimate questions about whether the numerous calls of a bottom occurring last week were perhaps premature.
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By Martin Hutchinson |
May 23, 2012
Over the last twelve months mining stocks have substantially underperformed the market. When you look more closely at operating numbers, the weakness in commodity shares is easier to explain.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
May 22, 2012
While it might not look like it now, the most investable trend over the next 20 years is going to be in the resource sector, the renewable and non-renewable resources, the minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass.
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By Chris Munford |
May 18, 2012
Together in a good year the industry spends about $2 billion more than it generates in earnings and takeovers. In a bad year the industry loses $8 billion more than it generates, Rick Rule of Global Resource Investments warned, in what he termed the “price loss ratio.”
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By Jon Nadler |
May 18, 2012
Gold prices rallied by more than 2% on Thursday and by nearly 1% early this morning as the US dollar appeared to slow its upward progress on the trade weighted index. Nevertheless, the dollar – trimmed gains and all – was still up for a 15th day in a row...
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By Chris Martenson |
May 18, 2012
Today we find the world's central banks mystified as to why trillions and trillions of freshly-printed fiat units, be they dollars or euros or yen, are not resuscitating the world economic system. The answer might just be grounded in the observation that we are out of cheap and easy oil....
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By Chris Munford |
May 17, 2012
Gold remains a premiere investment and will end the year above $1,600 per ounce to mark the 12th consecutive year of increases for the metal, gold expert Pamela Aden of Aden Forecast said in a presentation at this week’s Hard Assets Conference in New York.
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By Philip Burgert |
May 15, 2012
A Q&A with the chairman of Sprott Inc., chief excutive officer, chief investment officer and senior portfolio manager for Sprott Assett Management LP and chairman of Sprott Money Ltd., on his “Call to Action” to silver producers.
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By Jon Nadler |
May 14, 2012
After suffering a roughly 4% loss last week, gold prices headed even lower overnight and this morning as further erosion in crude oil and the euro and further advances in the US dollar made life more difficult for the few remaining bulls in the market.
