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Lorimer Wilson; Why Gold Mining Stocks and Warrants are Up so Dramatically

by Gold Editor on June 11, 2009



By: Lorimer Wilson

Every investor has a wide array of asset classes and investment vehicles to consider – stocks; bonds; commodities; funds; options; LEAPS; etc. and the relatively unknown and misunderstood category called ‘warrants’. This article discusses the reasons behind the performance to date of commodity related company stocks (i.e. gold, silver and other metal miners and oil and gas operators) and their associated warrants vis-à-vis the aforementioned categories.

Week after week throughout 2009 the warrants of natural resource companies in North America have outperformed their associated common stock, the various stock market indices and gold bullion and silver even more. It begs the question: What’s going on here? There are three over-riding reasons as discussed below.

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