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- On the Rare Earth Crisis of 2009
- Jack Lifton submits: The recent rare earth investment mania has exposed a not unexpected contradiction in the rare earth segment of the rare element mining investment space. The market prices of the shares of the publicly listed existing rare earth mining opportunities have, for the two existing Canadian companies, first...
- External links 2009-12-15
- Six Situations to Monitor for the Remainder of 2008
- Michael J. Kosares submits: "The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and economic trust will implode. Real hardship...
- External links 2008-09-09
- Precious Metals Shine in This Environment
- Jonathan Cavuoto submits: The performance of the US stock markets last week reflected the current perception of quality - the Dow Jones Industrial Average (the bluest of blue chip-safe stocks) fell 5.0% last week. The broader-based S&P 500 fell 6.2% and the tech-laden NASDAQ was off 7.9% see table below....
- External links 2008-11-17
- China's Greatest Trade Ever: The Sequel
- Brian Kelly submits: On October 29th, 2008 I wrote "China's Greatest Trade EVER!" in which I suggested that if China were to diversify its foreign exchange reserves into gold they would overwhelm the market. Since they hold so many dollars and gold is priced in dollars, buying gold is a...
- External links 2008-11-20
- Treasury Yields Hovering at Historic Lows
- Paco Ahlgren submits: “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”-- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy As bearish as I am on Treasuries right now, in recent days I've heard some compelling arguments why it might be some time before inevitable inflationary pressures drive yields higher. Please don't think I've...
- External links 2009-01-15
- How Does $9000 Gold Sound?
- Marc Chandler submits: In recent days the Canadian and Swedish central banks have joined the majority of other G10 central banks by indicating that they too may engage in quantitative easing now that the interest rates have been reduced to 25 and 50 basis points respectively. The ECB is...
- External links 2009-04-26
- Is Gold's Move an Indication or Merely a Reaction?
- Trader Mark submits: While I believe gold jumped Friday on this news regarding China building its reserves, the more important question to ask is over the longer run in terms of "why" and "implications for the dollar some far off day in the future". I'm not going to ask those...
- External links 2009-04-27
- Chinese Gold Revisited
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch As bullish as I can be about gold, there's little arguing with the fact that it has not been a runaway bull these last six months. Granted, nothing has been; it's been a brutal market for everyone. by Hard Assets...
- External links 2009-04-27
- China's Gold: World Changing or Unsurprising?
- Adrian Ash submits: "For 5,000 YEARS gold was a monetary asset, a financial asset, and a commodity," noted Jeffrey Christian of the CPM metals consultancy (.pdf) in New York last month. "Since the 1960s gold has been removed as a basis of the international monetary system." But reviewing last...
- External links 2009-04-29
- Gold Regaining Its Luster?
- Prieur du Plessis submits: Is gold bullion coming back to life? Should one read anything into its rise of 3.6% over the past two days to above $900? The yellow metal solidly outperformed stock markets for the bulk of the equity bear market that commenced in October 2007. However,...
- External links 2009-05-07
- Base Metals' Prices Appreciate on China's Industrial Activity Pickup
- FP Trading Desk submits: Base metals' prices have appreciated strongly on signs of a steady pickup in industrial activity in China in the first quarter of 2009 and further evidence that the U.S. economic recession is reaching a trough. China had the biggest influence on global commodity markets in...
- External links 2009-05-08
- Looking at Reflation and Stagnation Trades
- Mr. Market has begun to show clear signs of split personality disorder in recent weeks. Now that investors have exhaled in relief that a deflationary apocalypse has been avoided, the new reality of reflation and stagnation is sinking in… On the...
- External links 2009-05-17
- Fuqi International: Riding the Profit Boom in China
- Joshua Hayes submits: Fuqi International Inc. FUQI is a Shenzhen, China based manufacturer that, through its subsidiaries, designs, develops, promotes, and sells of high quality gold, platinum, karat gold, diamond and palladium precious stone jewelry in China. These products include rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, pendants, gold coins and gold bars...
- External links 2009-05-20
- Why Investors Must Own Gold
- Gold seems to have found its resistance at $1000.00 per ounce. Having breached that level in March 2008, and again in March 2009, the metal seems to be trading in a very similar fashion now as it did last year at this time. So why be bullish on gold?...
- External links 2009-05-22
- China Wants More Gold
- Tim Iacono submits: It comes as no surprise that the Chinese want to swap some of their U.S. dollar holdings for dumb 'ol gold bars, but the amount is a bit of a shock. Numismaster has the details: It wasn't until about June 9 that the mainstream media was...
- External links 2009-07-02
- China Crowns Copper King
- Frank Holmes submits: If you need more proof that the commodities world is changing just take a look at how historical patterns have shifted. The graph below shows the 5-, 15- and 30-year patterns for copper prices. click to enlarge by Frank Holmes
- External links 2009-07-07
- China's Copper Imports Have Not Slowed
- FP Trading Desk submits: Reports that China will slow down copper imports appear to be wildly exaggerated based on the latest data from China General Administration of Customs In June, the country's imports of unwrought copper and semi-finished copper products were 475,999 tonnes. an all-time record. It is the...
- External links 2009-07-10
- Is China Replacing India as the World's Premier Gold Consumer?
- Jeff Nielson submits: For several decades, Indian gold demand has dominated the global gold market, to the point where its own consumption-cycle became the “seasonal” indicator for gold. As Indian “wedding season” began in the fall, gold typically experienced a surge in the price. Then, in the spring, as wedding...
- External links 2009-07-27
- Chinese Investors Encouraged to Buy Silver
- Investor Nirav submits: With 1 ounce of gold selling for $955 and an ounce of silver selling for only $14.63, gold is currently about 65 times the price of silver. Last year the ratio was only 50 times. This is significantly above the long-term historical ratio of gold...
- External links 2009-08-09
- Who Let China's Silver Bulls Out?
- The Prudent Investor submits: Official Chinese TV announced last week that silver bullion is now available for the investing public. China, once on a silver standard where nobody knows today what happened to the hoard, now offers 500 gram, 1-, 2- and 5 kilo bars. The newslady...
- External links 2009-08-10
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