Gold Procrastinators: The Endless Agony

January 31, 2012

Gold Procrastinators: The Endless Agony
Author: Gary North
Posted: January 30, 2012
It happened again on Wednesday, January 25. Gold shot up by $50.
Across the nation, a band of perpetual procrastinators thought to themselves: “I knew! I knew! Why didn’t I buy?”
This is the never-ending cry of the perpetual gold procrastinator, year after year. “I knew! I knew!”
It [...]

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What Made Gold Break Out?

January 31, 2012

What Made Gold Break Out?
Author: Julian D. W. Phillips
Posted: January 30, 3012
Last week, gold broke through heavy overhead resistance, as did silver, to look very positive for the days ahead. Many technical analysts didn’t feel that gold had that kind of momentum but then came the break. It wasn’t a struggling break; it was robust [...]

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Gold Prices Top $1,700 an Ounce as Fed Keeps Interest Rates low to Encourage Economic Growth

January 27, 2012

Gold prices top $1,700 an ounce as Fed keeps interest rates low to encourage economic growth
Author: Associated Press
Posted: January 25
Gold prices rose Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it will keep interest rates near zero until 2014 at the earliest to help jump-start economic growth.
The central bank said the economy is growing at a moderate [...]

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Gold ETF Mass Exodus

January 27, 2012

Gold ETF Mass Exodus
Author: Adam Hamilton
Posted: January 27, 2012
Gold is enjoying an awesome January, rallying strongly out of its oversold late-December lows.  But last month’s hyper-pessimistic sentiment deserves some reflection before it totally fades from memory.  One of the core theses of the bears resolutely predicting sub-$1400 gold prices soon was the notion that there [...]

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Should Apple Buy Gold?

January 27, 2012

Should Apple Buy Gold?
Author: Eric McWhinnie
Posted: January 26, 2012
Gold is a very controversial object.  Many investors view the precious metal as a storage of wealth and a hedge against uncertainty. However, critics claim gold is a bubble and has no intrinsic value,  especially since you can not eat it.  The tech giant Apple Inc. also [...]

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Gold Bulls Ascendant on Biggest Rally Since ’80

January 27, 2012

Gold Bulls Ascendant on Biggest Rally Since ’80
Author: Nicholas Larkin
Posted: January 27, 2012
Gold traders are bullish for a fourth consecutive week, betting that the Federal Reserve’s pledge to keep interest rates low until late 2014 will extend the metal’s best start to a year in more than three decades.
Nine of 15 surveyed by Bloomberg expect [...]

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Resource Opportunities on West African Iron Ore

January 25, 2012

Resource Opportunities on West African Iron Ore
Author: Lawrence Roulston 
 
WAI is exploring two large iron ore concessions in Guinea, West Africa. Other companies, including one of the majors, are developing iron mines in Guinea. WAI will benefit from the infrastructure developed for those mines.

Very importantly, the WAI projects are near the port that would ship the [...]

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Indians to Pay for Iranian Oil With Gold

January 25, 2012

 Indians to Pay for Iranian Oil With Gold
Author: Press TV
Posted: January 24, 2012
India has agreed to pay the price of crude oil it imports from Iran in gold, which makes it the first country to drop the US dollar for purchasing the Iranian oil.
According to a report published by DEBKAfile news website, unnamed sources have [...]

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Signs Of The Times

January 25, 2012

Signs Of The Times
Author: Bob Hoye
Posted: Jan 22, 2012
“The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression”– Forbes, January 12
This emphasizes our thesis that the big action to 2007 accomplished another great Financial Mania. The first example was the infamous South Sea Bubble of 1720 and the fifth was the equally infamous 1929 Bubble.
One of the [...]

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Commodities: Gold Equities Could Finally Start to Perform

January 25, 2012

Commodities: Gold Equities Could Finally Start to Perform
Author: Garry White, and Emma Rowley
Posted: January 23, 2012

Gold equities have underperformed for more than a year despite the gold price hitting a series of new all-time highs. But things could be about to change.
Investors have preferred to invest in physical gold, despite the storage costs, and exchange-traded [...]

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