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Chris Vermeulen: On Friday, the price action in gold caught the attention of most market participants as gold put in a monster move to the upside in light of risk assets such Read more…
Toby Connor: Once every year gold and stocks form a major yearly cycle low. Commodities form a major cycle bottom every 2 1/2 to 3 years. Every once in a while all three of these major cycles hit at the same time. I’m pretty sure that’s what is happening right now. Read more…
Larry D. Spears: With few exceptions, most leading financial gurus agree that every portfolio should include some physical gold. But while the yellow metal itself is great as a long-term hedge against turmoil and inflation, it’s a lousy trading vehicle. Read more…
Jordan Roy-Byrne: Speculating and investing in this sector is difficult. It is a far more difficult industry than others and that is why companies continue to struggle and fail even with the luxury of high metals prices. We’ve written extensively about the recent major bottom in the precious metals sector and Read more…
Toby Connor: Friday’s big rally on the better than expected employment report has now generated the kind of euphoria that often creates intermediate degree tops. This coming week will be the 18th Read more…
There are certain dogmas held sacrosanct by precious metals investors and one of them is that platinum is supposed to be more expensive than gold (NYSEARCA:GLD). That’s just the way it is. Quite a few eyebrows lifted and jaws dropped last fall when the yellow metals price overtook that of platinum Read more…
Scott Pluschau: Some historians will say there is an ominous pricing pattern in the Gold Miners exchange traded fund, GDX. This pattern I’ve drawn looks like a “megaphone”. It is known for three different names in classic technical analysis: Read more…
Przemyslaw Radomski: This may be the year that weaker member-states are booted from the euro. Will the continent fix its financial troubles or spiral out of control affecting not only the U.S. Read more…
Jeb Handwerger: This is one of those times that we have inveighed about so often. It is a typical “COM” week where markets are designed to confuse, obfuscate and misdirect the players. All thirty DOW stocks and commodities were down as Europe and Bernanke disappointed the markets with what Read more…
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Przemyslaw Radomski: There is palpable fear in the world and the urgency could be felt in the new strategy unveiled Wednesday morning by the world’s major central banks to bolster the financial system Read more…
Brian Sylvester: Mike Kachanovsky, known as “Mexico Mike,” doesn’t follow the so-called smart money. Founder of the website smartinvestment.ca, Mexico Mike believes mainstream commentators are leading investors astray by insisting that it is too late to get into mining stocks and precious metals. Read more…
Toby Connor: I realize that most people that come to this blog are bullish on gold (NYSE:GLD). I myself am definitely bullish long-term. That being said warning signs are starting to build. Read more…
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Larry D. Spears: Gold prices (NYSE:GLD) have had a phenomenal run over the past year, but the distinguishing feature of the market in recent weeks has been extreme volatility – volatility that has many investors nervous about protecting the big profits they’ve rolled up and looking for ways to Read more…
Jeb Handwerger: Gold Stock Trades (GST) is witnessing the resumption of the long term uptrend in gold (NYSE:GLD) and silver (NYSE:SLV) bullion and precious metals mining stocks (NYSE:GDX). Along the way there have been many negative voices that were counseling throwing in the towel Read more…
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