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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 Frank Holmes |
March 22, 2010
New data shows a clear trend of emerging-market countries increasing their ownership stakes of companies in the developed world.
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By Frank Holmes |
February 22, 2010
We are entering a time of year that in recent decades has been good for energy prices and energy equities. Here's why.
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By Frank Holmes |
February 12, 2010
China sees a bubble ahead and is trying to avoid it - is that such a bad thing?
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By Frank Holmes |
February 8, 2010
The U.S. dollar was up last week against the euro out of fear of how debt problems in Greece and elsewhere in Europe will be resolved, and as a result gold had a tough week.
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By Frank Holmes |
February 3, 2010
One more measure of China's growing global clout - so much Saudi oil is flowing China's way that it may soon replace the U.S. as the leading market for the world's largest oil exporter.
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By Frank Holmes |
January 25, 2010
The biggest emerging economies have ambitious plans that require a greater share of the world's limited commodities. The resulting disruptions to resource allocations present opportunities to traders.
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By Frank Holmes |
January 19, 2010
Commodities (as measured by the Reuters-Jefferies CRB Index) rose 24 percent in 2009, the largest single-year increase since the early 1970s.
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By Frank Holmes |
January 15, 2010
Technological breakthroughs and declining production from mature fields have sent many of the world's largest independent and national oil companies in search of prospects offshore.
