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3 Reasons Gold Has Touched Bottom
by Brad Hoppman | Monday, June 17, 2013 at 7:16pm
Waiting is rarely fun. I have never met anyone who enjoys supermarket checkout lines. Millions of investors have that same feeling this week. Everything is building toward a magical moment Wednesday after Ben Bernanke says … something. Will it be worth the wait? We’ll know soon enough. While we all wait together, let’s chat about [More »]
Why the Heck is the Price of Crude Above $90?
by Sean Brodrick | Monday, June 17, 2013 at 8:30am
Crude oil is sending more mixed signals than a drive-through traffic school. Basically, it’s boiling down to this: Should I believe crude oil’s fundamentals, or my own lying eyes? Let me show you what I’m looking at, and maybe you’ll have some thoughts to share. I can think of plenty of fundamental reasons why crude [More »]
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Rick Rule: The Bull Case for Platinum and Palladium
by Brad Hoppman | Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 8:30am
Editor’s Note: We received such an enthusiastic response to Rick Rule’s recent article on “Uranium: A Rise Coming for the Green Metal” that we invited him to share a follow-up report on two white-hot metals, Platinum and Palladium. We hope you enjoy this follow-on report from someone we regard as one of the most-legendary precious-metals [More »]
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Wall Street Waits on Pins and Needles Before Fed Wednesday
by Brad Hoppman | Friday, June 14, 2013 at 5:52pm
The waiting game is on! Financial markets around the globe seem to be holding their breath in anticipation of next week’s Federal Reserve policy meeting. Significant changes are unlikely, but traders don’t want to take a chance. They would rather postpone major decisions until they see what happens. The Federal Open Market Committee holds eight [More »]
5 Global Dividend-Paying Stocks to Beat the Bond Bear Market
by Rudy Martin | Friday, June 14, 2013 at 8:30am
Fixed-income super-guru Bill Gross of PIMCO said a few weeks ago what many of us have seen coming for some time. But with this pronouncement on social-media site Twitter, he made it official: “The secular 30-year bull market in bonds likely ended April 29, 2013.” His words were likely meant to be more of a [More »]
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Japan Stocks Plunge! Keep a Very Close Eye on the Yen …
by Brad Hoppman | Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 7:05pm
This morning we woke up to harsh news from Tokyo. The Nikkei Dow plunged another 6.4% and entered bear-market territory. Chinese stocks were weak, too, but Japan looks different — an island of darkness against the rest of Asia’s bright future. But, I don’t think Japan is sinking into the sea. The Nikkei is one [More »]
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The Big Picture on US Oil Production — It’s HUGE!
by Sean Brodrick | June 13, 2013
Via the Carpe Diem blog and Business Insider, here is a chart of the change in annual US crude oil production … In 2012, the U.S. experienced the largest one-year gain in oil production in its history, rising 14% to 8.9 million barrels per day. For the latest headlines from the BP Annual Statistical Energy … [ More » ]
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Dollar Breakdown Is Bullish for Gold Miners
by Sean Brodrick | June 06, 2013
Earlier this week, I posted a chart showing a potential retracement/support levels in the US dollar, working from the May low. (Updated chart) I had to add the last bar by hand due to Stockcharts’ persnickety habit of only updating the US dollar index at the end of the day. Obviously, the dollar index broke … [ More » ]
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Potato Salad, or Is It Time to Start Freaking Out About Gold Supply?
by Sean Brodrick | June 03, 2013
Last week, Atna Resources (ATNAF: 0.20 -0.01 -4.76%) announced that low gold prices have “temporarily downsized” the ramp-up of underground mining operations at its Pinson Mine near Winnemucca, Nevada. Atna’s stock was punished mercilessly. Pinson was expected to yield 50,000 to 57,000 gold ounces this year. Atna had hoped to increase that production to as … [ More » ]
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Will The US Dollar Pullback Go Deeper? Chart
by Sean Brodrick | June 03, 2013
Not long ago, the US dollar broke out to the upside, and everybody piled in for a rally. Well, we know how the market likes to punish consensus of opinion, and that’s what we saw last week, when, the dollar rally faded and the dollar pulled back to the 50% retracement of its rally since … [ More » ]
