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Inflation Scorecard: Prices Bottoming
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 4.6% Data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics this week shows U.S. inflation continuing to bottom. Year-over-year, the Consumer Price Index slipped 0.2% in October, its shallowest decline since March. Wholesale prices for...
Tags: Materials & Industrials, Hard Assets Investor
External links 2009-11-20
Crunch Time for Gold
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Have you noticed the sea change in gold volatility lately? Gold was, for awhile, "the opposite stock." Now, it's more likely that big moves in the S&P 500, most particularly upside moves, will be accompanied by sympathetic movement in gold prices. by...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, Hard Assets Investor, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2009-08-07
Damage Done to Gold
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 8.3% Boy, gold took it on the chin Wednesday. The August COMEX contract closed at $909.30, a critical retracement of the March-November 2008 decline, and below key support for the intermediate-trend spring 2009 rally. by Hard Assets...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, Hard Assets Investor, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2009-07-09
Crude Oil Could Bounce, But ...
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler The crude oil market's undergone a sea change over the past two weeks. Volume spikes used to accompany "up" days - that is, days in which prices rose over the previous day's close. Currently, we're seeing turnover increase on "down" days. by...
Tags: Energy, Hard Assets Investor, United States Oil Fund LP
External links 2009-07-10
Priming the Pump for $20/Gal. Gas: Interview with Chris Steiner
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Lara Crigger As you're filling up your tank this weekend, it'll be hard not to think about the cost. Back when gas was $4/gallon, many of us made seemingly radical changes to our lifestyle, cutting back how much we went out to eat, riding...
Tags: Energy, Hard Assets Investor, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
External links 2009-07-10
Gold Takes a (Dollar) Drubbing
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 3.6%* When we wrote about the chin punch taken by gold in Thursday's Desktop ("Damage Done To Gold"), we assumed a rather dollar-centric attitude. It's certainly true that gold's value in greenbacks fell precipitously last week. Measured...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, Hard Assets Investor, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2009-07-14
Surprise! Wholesale Prices Jumped in June
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 3.6%* The Producer Price Index [PPI] figures for June caught analysts by surprise, big time, this morning. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] says prices for finished goods jumped 1.8% in June. The consensus on the...
Tags: Materials/Industrials, Hard Assets Investor
External links 2009-07-14
Selling Most of Excel Maritime into the Euphoria
Hard Assets Investor submits: Excel Maritime EXM has been performing very poorly, but today there is a 16% spike , so I am going to sell the majority (95%) of a smallish (0.7%) stake into this euphoria. I am exiting around $7.10. Part of this move is 'reflation' is...
Tags: Transport, Hard Assets Investor
External links 2009-07-14
The CPI and Oil
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 3.6%* The Consumer Price Index CPI notched a 0.9% increase in June, but the 12-month inflation rate is still negative, at -1.4%. by Hard Assets Investor
Tags: Energy, Hard Assets Investor
External links 2009-07-16
T. Boone Pickens' Epic Wind Fail
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch It's all over the headlines: T. Boone Pickens' huge wind farm has been scrapped - or at least postponed. After warning last year that he was having difficulty securing financing for the project, and was terminating land leases in March,...
Tags: Energy, Hard Assets Investor
External links 2009-07-09
What (or When) Is up with Natural Gas
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler We've been marveling at the surging investment interest in natural gas recently (see "Natural Gas Pains?"), most especially manifested through the United States Natural Gas Fund (NYSE Arca: UNG). by Hard Assets Investor
Tags: Energy, Hard Assets Investor, United States Natural Gas Fund LP
External links 2009-07-08
We Still Have Oil. Plenty of Oil
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation: 8.3% A surprisingly large drawdown in domestic oil inventories failed to boost energy prices today. by Hard Assets Investor
Tags: Energy, Hard Assets Investor
External links 2009-07-08
Gold: Metal or Stocks
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 8.5% Just before the U.S. Independence Day holiday, we published a Desktop item examining silver's weakening ("Silver's Strength Waning") relative to gold. by Hard Assets Investor
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, Hard Assets Investor, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2009-07-07
It Isn't Just Location: Housing and the Economic Recovery
Hard Assets Investor submits: Mike Norman, anchor, HardAssetsInvestor.com Norman: Hello everybody, and welcome to HardAssetsInvestor.com. I’m Mike Norman, your host. Well, talk about a hard asset, what about real estate? Here to talk about that, and somebody who has a very, very intimate knowledge of the real estate market...
Tags: US Market, Hard Assets Investor, Honeywell International Inc., Toll Brothers Inc.
External links 2009-07-03
Silver's Strength Waning
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 8.5% There's a little bit of tarnish on silver now. Silver spent the first five months of 2009 building strength against gold. The gold/silver ratio, which started the year at 80-to-1, slumped to a 61 multiple at...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, Hard Assets Investor, IShares Silver Trust
External links 2009-07-02
A Big Bearish Day for Agriculture
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch After expecting lower numbers due to rain-slowed plantings, the market reacted to the news that it looks like we're heading for another bumper year - assuming historical harvesting trends hold true. by Hard Assets Investor
Tags: Materials/Industrials, Hard Assets Investor
External links 2009-07-02
Oil Drawn Down but Product Stockpiles Grow
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 8.5% Profit-taking in the New York Mercantile Exchange's August crude oil contract led to a lower close Tuesday, but the overnight session turned higher and maintained a bullish undertone all the way up to the ringing of...
Tags: Energy, Hard Assets Investor
External links 2009-07-02
Gold Manipulation Redux
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler We at HardAssetsInvestor.com (HardAssetsInvestor.com) often hear the volume level rise precipitously in the conversation whenever the words "gold" and "manipulation" are strung together in the same sentence. by Hard Assets Investor
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, Hard Assets Investor, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2009-07-01
Exxon's Biofuel Bet
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Lara Crigger Earlier this week, the world's largest oil major announced a five-year, $600 million partnership with Synthetic Genomics Incorporated [SGI], a California-based genetic engineering firm, to develop next-gen transportation fuel-from pond scum. by Hard Assets Investor
Tags: Energy, Hard Assets Investor, Exxon Mobil Corp.
External links 2009-07-17
Sliver: Flip Side of the Gold Coin
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 3.7%* Gold traders had a good day Wednesday. Silver traders wished their day could have been better. by Hard Assets Investor
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, Hard Assets Investor, Streettracks Gold Trust, IShares Silver Trust
External links 2009-07-17