Nick Barisheff: Worldwide economic uncertainty has created a growing interest in precious metals as a way to preserve wealth. Today, global risks for investors include currency devaluation, sovereign debt defaults, bond market collapses and stock market losses Read more…
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Tom Essaye: One of the biggest stories in the media over the past week or so has been the tremendous drought affecting the nation’s Corn Belt. The spike in crop prices has been dramatic … Read more…
NYSE:MOO
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff received top headline on Yahoo Finance News Tuesday, encouraging investors to loading up on gold and silver before the rush from global investors into precious metals becomes Read more…
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Jordan Roy-Byrne: There are two drivers of stock prices: valuation and earnings. Valuations are very much driven by investor sentiment while earnings are driven by revenue Read more…
NYSE:GDX, NYSE:GDXJ, NYSE:GLD
Chris Vermeulen: Natural gas (NYSEARCA:UNG) has recently caught my attention. While it was in a significant downtrend for the better part of a year it has recently been consolidating right under the $20 level. A look at the daily chart shows a long move Read more…
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Jared Cummans: Crude oil trading is one of the most prominent aspects of the commodity industry. With this fossil fuel having such a deep impact on our everyday lives, it’s no wonder why it is among the most heavily traded commodities in the world. Read more…
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Jared Cummans: Gold investing is one of the most popular aspects of the commodity world. In recent years it has established a cult following that swear by the hard asset as one of their favorite capital allocations. But for every gold bug that exists, there is someone Read more…
NYSE:GDX, NYSE:GLD
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM)’s plan for an exchange-traded fund linked to copper will disrupt supplies to the market and drive up prices to “create a bubble and burst cycle” in the metal, Senator Carl Levin told Read more…
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Bill Luby: I am firmly of the Jim Cramer school of thinking that believes, “There is always a bull market somewhere.” Of course, with the advent of inverse exchange-traded products ETPs), you can turn just about any bear market upside down and transform it into a bull market Read more…
NYSE:CORN
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Following trader Dan Norcini’s (of JSMineset) report that major banks now hold net long positions in the gold market for the first time in recent memory, the eery feeling of the next shoe to drop in the global financial fiasco reaches Read more…
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Larry Edelson: I’d love to tell you that all is well in the world. That Europe has solved its sovereign-debt and currency problems. That the U.S. economy is looking better than most believe. And that Asia is about to soar again. Read more…
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Christian Magoon: Global gold ETF assets just hit a new high, but are gold ETF products really in their glory? Gold ETF funds like the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD) that track gold prices are up marginally over the last year and in 2012. Gold stock ETFs like the Market Read more…
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Jared Cummans: Nouriel Roubini, known as “Dr. Doom” for his outlandish predictions on the economy, has a choppy forecast for the coming year. Back in May, Roubini predicted Read more…
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Michael Snyder: Why is the heartland of the United States experiencing such a horrific drought right now? At the moment, approximately 61 percent of the entire nation Read more…
NYSE:CORN, NYSE:DBA, NYSE:MOO
Jeremy Pylypczak: We all know that the world of commodities can be extremely volatile, especially during times of economic uncertainty. Still, there are a number of analysts and experts that like to weigh in with their opinions on where their favorite Read more…
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