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By Jon Nadler |
February 22, 2012
Gold and silver prices headed lower this morning while platinum and palladium extended their Tuesday rally with fairly hefty additional gains. Gold retreated towards the $1,750 area while silver fell back to near the $34 level as profit-takers moved in following yesterday’s Sino-Euro-news-induced euphoria.
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By Jon Nadler |
January 26, 2012
Momentum players pulled the “buy” trigger on precious and base metals, along with crude oil and equities, yesterday afternoon, after they concluded that the Fed’s offer to not hike interest rates until late 2014 was tantamount to a fresh QE program.
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By Jon Nadler |
January 23, 2012
An elevated mood brought about some gains in the precious and the base metals spaces this morning. Crude oil was also assisted in notching a better than 1% gain by an EU decision to ban Iranian oil imports as of July.
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By Jon Nadler |
January 11, 2012
Gold prices traded with muted gains ranging from almost unchanged to roughly seven dollars and with bids coming in mainly around $1,635 to $1,645 in early action after yesterday's rally in part helped by robust Chinese gold import data.
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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 |
June 1, 2011
Water, transportation and energy investments will consume the bulk of these funds, accounting for 82% of total projected spending. Nearly every emerging market country researched will make an investment in all three.
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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 Nick Barisheff |
April 6, 2011
Are bank safety deposit boxes a viable place to store your silver bullion? Sadly, in the US, no longer. Nor in the UK. And with home storage and bank safety deposit boxes off the table, what secure option does today's bullion investor have?
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By Frank Holmes, John Derrick, Tim Steinle |
March 30, 2011
Russia has effectively recoupled with the other BRIC countries after the Russian economy lagged out-of-the-gate once the global recovery began, leading some to question whether it belonged in the same category as Brazil, China and India.
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By Jon Nadler |
January 27, 2011
Wednesday's FOMC announcement-induced price gains in gold evaporated overnight as the yellow metal not only did not manage to overcome overhead resistance levels but fell victim to selling in the wake of rising risk appetite for other assets.
