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- The Politics Of Oil
- Written by Brad Zigler Oil traders are looking ahead to two upcoming events. On Friday, November heating oil and gasoline futures go off the boards. And Tuesday, of course, is Election Day. The outcome for Friday is a certainty; Tuesday, not so much. by Brad Zigler
- External links 2008-10-30
- Gold Plus Oil Equals Muddle
- Real-time Inflation Indicator per annum: 7.0% Divers know that if you tread the bottom you're likely to stir things up, reducing your visibility. Traders and investors are looking through the current market murk and wondering if they're seeing the bottom. by Brad Zigler
- External links 2009-03-11
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- IAMGold Says "I Am Profitable"
- By Brad Zigler IAMGold's IAG net earnings shot up 169% to $33.3 million, or $0.11 per share, versus the second quarter of 2007 on a 35% increase in revenue. EPS beat Street estimates by a penny a share, or 10%. by Brad Zigler
- External links 2008-08-12
- Time for Gold Miners To Consolidate?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Consolidation is big in equitiesland nowadays as excess capacity is gobbled up in a Darwinian mergerfest. Now it's gold miners' turn. On Thursday, Canada's second-largest gold producer, Goldcorp GG announced plans to acquire junior miner Gold Eagle Mines Ltd. [TSW: GEA] for...
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- Steel Futures Forging Ahead
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler James Bond fans (that's the Agent 007 Bond, not the botanist) may recall that bad guy Oddjob flung his steel-rimmed hat with deadly accurate results in the movie "Goldfinger." by Hard Assets Investor
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- Got Time for Spreads?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Aside from absolving speculators from culpability for spiraling oil prices, the recently released report of the Interagency Task Force on Commodity Markets also identified the fastest-growing segment of the crude oil market as spread trading. by Hard Assets Investor
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- Test-Driving Some Exchange-Traded Oil Vehicles
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler As luck would have it, the new MacroShares oil portfolios debuted as crude prices zenithed and arced lower. Well, in reality, they're really the new version of the MacroShares portfolios (see "Gold Vs. Oil"). You'll remember from our previous screeds that MacroShares...
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- Using Futures To Hedge Your House
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler The most important asset for most investors won't be found in their brokerage accounts. Investors, rather, can be found living in it. "A house is more than just a home," says an old adage. Indeed, it's often the single largest investment an...
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- Gold (and Gartman) Haunting Some Investors
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Sometimes, things come back to haunt you. Things or people like Dennis Gartman. Gartman, an institutional advisor and newsletter writer, was once the most bullish proponent of gold among the non-slavering set. In April, however, after three years of scale-up metal buying,...
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- 0 for 4: Oil Analysts Surprised by Everything
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Apparently, it doesn't matter if your numbers are bad. by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2008-08-13
- Computing Inflation in Real Time
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Today, journalists and pundits waited for the monthly inflation reports to be released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]. Upon their issuance, newsrooms become frenzied as ink-stained wretches put out calls to economists and sell-side analysts for comments. by Hard...
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- Options as a 'Gold'en Opportunity
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Gold has certainly been thwacked in the past few weeks. As much as gold has fallen, though, gold stocks have plunged even farther. We've chronicled some of the woes besetting miners in a number of articles, including a recent feature entitled "What's...
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- Ugly Thoughts for a Pre-PPI Monday
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler We've all seen oil prices tank since the Independence Day holiday, hoping that the salutary effect lower crude prices should have on refiners' profit margins would quickly bring relief at the pump. While some easing in retail gasoline prices has occurred, it's...
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- Another 1-for-4 Oil Forecast
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Crude oil stocks inventories shot up 9.4 million barrels last week, catching the bean counters by surprise. Oil patch watchers had forecast a much more modest 700,000-barrel increase and maybe, at the outside, a 1.7 million barrel uptick. Now, with nearly 306...
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- Corn as Comfort Food
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler CBOT Weekly Corn Crush by Hard Assets Investor
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- Cheap Silver: Whither the Ratio?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Back in November, we wrote about the history of the gold/silver ratio (What's Better: Gold Or Silver?) and a novel approach one fellow's taken to determine the white metal's relative value. Back then, the gold/silver ratio was 55-to-1 and silver bulls were...
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- The Real Story of Precious Metals' Returns
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Old guys like me can recall Certs ads featuring two people earnestly arguing over the mints' proper taxonomy. To each exhortation made by one ("It's a breath mint!") came the rebuttal, "It's a candy mint!" Universal harmony is ultimately restored through the...
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- Higher Cocoa Prices
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Did you have cocoa with your breakfast this morning? No? by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2008-08-25
- What's Going on with Corn?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch Just last week, our own Brad Zigler was talking about the ethanol bust; in particular, how the boom in corn prices and inflation had made being an ethanol refiner a pretty dismal proposition, and highlighting how the push-me-pull-you of inflation was hitting...
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- Fed's Passive-Aggressive Tendencies
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Fed watchers normally have to resort to teas leaves and chicken entrails to parse the pronouncements of the Federal Reserve Board, but this month the language of the Federal Open Market Committee was fairly straightforward. by Hard Assets Investor
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