Gold Records 11th Annual Gain, Ends 2011 Up 11%
Source: Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault  (12/30/11)
"The price of physical gold crept higher early Friday, recovering half of this week's 5% loss to near six-month lows as the euro rallied from 12-month lows and world stock markets held flat." More >

Gold's D-Wave Confirmed
Source: Toby Connor, Gold Scents  (12/29/11)
"The combination of the dollar rally out of its three-year cycle low, gold's yearly cycle low and a D-Wave decline are going to produce a very sharp correction in the gold bull market." More >

Indian Jewelers Reduce Gold Content to Lift Sales
Source: Shivom Seth, Mineweb  (12/29/11)
"Jewelers have resorted to reducing the gold content in jewelry pieces and replacing it with diamonds or other precious stones." More >

Market Looks Poised to Reverse Hard to Downside Within Days
Source: David Banister, The Market Trend Forecast  (12/29/11)
"The patterns that I am seeing are based on crowd behavioral 'Elliott Wave' analysis that now favors a 70% probability of a bearish decline beginning very shortly to the 1150s area on the S&P 500 index." More >

Sell Gold Now or Will It Outperform Again in 2012?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (12/29/11)
"Investors have been used to prices falling for fundamental or technical analysis reasons, but the phenomenon that we first saw in 2007/2008 reared its ugly head again: Investor Meltdown." More >

Don't Let Short-Term Volatility Inform Investment Decisions: James West
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (12/28/11)
James West isn't interested in timing the precious metals market—that's a good way to end up butchering perfectly good investments. As the editor of The Midas Letter and portfolio advisor of the Midas Letter Opportunity Fund, West doesn't even check the daily trading of the stocks he's following. He's more interested in making sure companies meet their long-term goals so he and his investors can cash out in the black. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, West reveals some little-known names that he's watching to be the next big winners. More >

Precious Metals Catch Up with Indian Slump
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (12/28/11)
"London dealers returning to work caught up with a 1.4% drop for the week so far, plus news of falling industrial output in Japan, seasonally low jewelry demand in India and a new edict from China banning all non-official gold trading exchanges." More >

Platinum: Fire Sale on the Rich Man's Gold
Source: John Lee  (12/28/11)
"Historically, the price of platinum runs in tandem with the precious metals group (gold, silver, platinum and palladium). However, as platinum is less liquid and has a smaller investor set, it is much more volatile both on the upside and downside compared to gold." More >

U.S. Dollar Replaced by China, Japan: Positive for Gold
Source: Julian Phillips, The Gold Forecaster  (12/28/11)
"As time passes, the process of the internationalization of the yuan will primarily be at the expense of the dollar." More >

Top 10 Commentaries of 2011
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors  (12/28/11)
"This week I thought we'd take a moment to reflect on the eventful year it's been for natural resources." More >

Mining Boom in Quebec: Alain-Jean Beauregard
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (12/23/11)
While many jurisdictions are working hard to prevent mining or mineral exploration, the province of Quebec is encouraging it. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Alain-Jean Beauregard, founder of Geologica Inc., a geological consulting firm based in Val-d'Or, talks about the shining future of gold mining in Quebec. More >

Christmas Week Rally Spied in Gold as ECB Member Sees No Reason Not to Use QE
Source: Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault  (12/23/11)
"'We still stress the vulnerability of precious metals to a tightening of Eurozone money market liquidity,' says Standard Bank's London team, 'which might result from the region's sovereign debt problems.'" More >

Riders on the Gold and Silver Storm
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades  (12/23/11)
"Those of us who are buyers and believers in the long-term continuing secular rise in resource equities are going through a time of testing." More >

Canadian Juniors Are Playing For Results
Source: Rick Mills, Ahead of the Herd  (12/23/11)
"Juniors, not majors, own the world's future mines and juniors are the ones most adept at finding these future mines. They already own what the world's larger mining companies need to replace reserves and grow their asset bases." More >

2012: The Dow's Annus Horribilis and Gold
Source: Hubert Moolman  (12/23/11)
"The Dow's inflated value, relative to the value of gold, was brought about by this debt-based monetary system." More >

Why Gold, Why Now!
Source: Giuseppe L. Borrelli  (12/23/11)
"In spite of the momentary flashes of economic growth, the world economy continues to decline as deflationary pressures gradually increase. This is one of the reasons gold has floundered of late; that combined with the fact that it had rallied close to 50% by the time it reached the September high." More >

Why We Remain Bullish on Small Mining Shares
Source: Gene Arensberg, Resource Investor  (12/22/11)
"'The little guys' have had little to be joyous about in 2011. That, of course, is definitely a reason for vulture speculators like me to be filled with jollity." More >

The Currency of the Elite in the Great Financial Crisis
Source: Lawrence Williams, Mineweb  (12/22/11)
"'Elements of inflation, reduced living standards and totalitarianism are already present to a greater or lesser extent,' says Paul Mylchreest in his Thunder Road December report." More >

Silver Investors Prefer to Wait It Out
Source: Shivom Seth, Mineweb   (12/22/11)
"After hitting record highs in May this year, silver prices have since fallen significantly and a number of analysts remain fairly bearish." More >

Gold Does Not Offer Comfort in Liquidity Crunch
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (12/21/11)
"Despite rallying for most of this week (until the ECB announcement), the dollar price of gold bullion remains 5.6% down on the start of last week. Gold gives you comfort against currency risks, inflation, sovereign debt problems, but not against a liquidity crunch." More >

Investing vs. Speculating in Gold and Silver Stocks
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (12/21/11)
"You cannot just sit in your juniors and think that they will be up 50-fold by the end of this bull market. After all, you should know by now that most juniors will fall and even fail in this historic bull market." More >

What Are ECB Actions and Utility Stocks Saying About Gold?
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet  (12/21/11)
"As the financial markets around the globe continue to deteriorate and send investors running toward defensive stocks, central banks around the world will face increasing pressure to offer even more quantitative easing. Such a move will add more fuel to gold's 11-year bull market." More >

Gold and Silver on the Verge of a Big Move
Source: Chris Vermeulen, TheGoldandOilGuy  (12/21/11)
"The question everyone keeps asking is: When can I buy gold and silver? With what is unfolding across the pond and the bullish outlook for the U.S. dollar index, the next move is a coin toss. I do feel a large move brewing in the marketplace, so I am preparing for fireworks in the first quarter of 2012." More >

Striking Portfolio Balance with Gold Stocks
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors  (12/20/11)
"Gold stocks have historically ranked among some of the most volatile asset classes. Despite this volatility, investors can use gold stocks to enhance returns without adding risk to the portfolio." More >

Permanent Crisis: The First Five Years
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (12/20/11)
"So 2012 will mark the fifth anniversary of the global financial crisis. There's little reason to think it's reached its end yet." More >