Vikas Ranjan: Junior Gold Equities to Watch
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (11/4/11)
Junior gold explorers from British Columbia to Colombia are poised to pounce. And they are not your ordinary explorers. The Ubika Gold 50 Index has uncovered one explorer that also produces; another has a "fully earned option" with Goldcorp. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Vikas Ranjan, managing director and principal, Ubika Research, reveals why these companies make a compelling case for success. More >

How Long Will Gold Miners Lag Bullion Prices?
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet  (11/4/11)
"Gold miners believe that gold prices will rise, and it shows by the dividend policies taking place in the industry." More >

Economic Insights from a Lord of Finance
Source: David Galland, Casey Research   (11/4/11)
"The only way to resolve the sort of problems we're facing is through growth, and if you don't get growth, then the policy makers will continue to debase the currency." More >

One Man's Mission: Building the World's Safest Bank
Source: Peter Krauth, Money Morning  (11/4/11)
"Eric Sprott, the billionaire resource investment guru, is buying 51% of Ontario currency trader Continental Currency Exchange Corp., with the aim of making it into a financial institution that, refreshingly, will not make loans."
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Confusion on Rare Earths: Setting It Straight
Source: Jon Hykawy, Resource Investor  (11/4/11)
"While some of the hype may be over, some of the air may have been let out of the stock bubble in rare earths, we note that the industry itself is just beginning to grow." More >

Gold Hovers as Dollar's Dominance Wavers
Source: Ben Traynor, Bullion Vault  (11/4/11)
"A chaotic session on Thursday brought gains for all four precious metals; gold was range-bound around $1,758/oz." More >

Michael Berry: Questions to Ask Every Mining Company
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (11/2/11)
Could a few simple questions help you find winners in the mining space? Dr. Michael Berry, publisher of Morning Notes, thinks so. Berry has taken years of experience picking resource stocks and boiled it down to key questions he asks of every company. He has refined his Discovery Investing philosophy into the Discovery Investing Scoreboard software, which debuts for investors in January at the Cambridge House Symposium in Vancouver. Berry turns his high-powered analysis toward the European debt crisis and what it means for gold in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report. More >

The EU Flunks The Test
Source: Giuseppe L. Borrelli  (11/2/11)
"The question now becomes is the real market the one that rallied for more than two weeks or the one that turned down yesterday?" More >

Costless, Limitless, Meaningless Money, Part I
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (10/31/11)
"No credit event, no CDS payments and no scramble to find out who's carrying the can." More >

How Will Precious Metals React to the EU Bailout Plan?
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet  (10/31/11)
"Gold and silver are hedges against the debt-ridden world that we live in. As investors lose confidence in governments and countries, precious metal prices will continue to rise." More >

The New Steel Silk Road
Source: Rick Mills, Ahead of the Herd  (10/31/11)
"Given the fact that Eurasia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa comprise most of the world's population will The New Steel Silk Road be the building block for a truly developed global economy?" More >

Argentina Rule Change Casts a Dark Shadow over the Mining Industry
Source: Bob Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (10/31/11)
"The environment now has an air of uncertainty about it, the lack of a level playing field will deter many investors and encourage them to look and invest in what are perceived to be mining friendly jurisdictions." More >

David Goguen: Four Latin American Junior Takeover Targets Identified
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (10/31/11)
Junior gold explorers are in a predicament; despite record gold bullion prices, stock valuations are suffering. Many of them, even those on the heels of exciting discoveries, are faced with either rounding up the cash and teams needed to build out mines themselves or turning the projects over to companies with the money and infrastructure already in place. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, David Goguen, director of institutional sales at PI Financial in Vancouver, discusses the merger and acquisition landscape. More >

Gold Plunges after Yen Move
Source: Ben Traynor, Bullion Vault  (10/31/11)
"'Given that this week's improvement merely erases the deterioration of the previous week, the speculative market still appears to be cautious about gold's short-term prospects'" More >

Kevin Puil: Exotic Congo Holds Hidden Values
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (10/28/11)
Investments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo often get dinged with an "exotic locale" discount, but the jurisdiction is much less risky than even a few years ago. Kevin Puil, a portfolio manager with Malcolm H. Gissen & Associates and senior analyst with the Encompass Fund, recently traveled to the Congo and he liked what he saw. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Puil shares the opportunities he uncovered in this emerging mining jurisdiction. More >

Are Gold and Silver Investing Safe Havens Again?
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet  (10/28/11)
"Although the U.S. dollar continues to receive spurts of strength, mostly due to euro weakness, investors around the world are focusing on gold and silver as real safe havens." More >

Restructuring Portfolios: Gold Shares or Gold Funds?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (10/28/11)
"Should one invest in a gold fund, or in gold shares directly? Are you a passenger or a driver?" More >

Why a Mega Gold Stocks Rally Is Imminent
Source: Herbert Moolman  (10/28/11)
"Like all goods, gold stocks will thrive under the ideal conditions." More >

Gold Returns to Form
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (10/28/11)
"Gold's return to form, after a period of indifferent performance, will have won it back some supporters, especially since this week's initial rally ran contrary to equities." More >

Euro Bailouts: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Source: Axel Merk, Merk Funds  (10/28/11)
"The most effective tool to bolster confidence in the Eurozone is to ensure banks are able to stomach losses on their sovereign debt holdings." More >

John Hathaway: Bullish on Gold and Gold Equities
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report   (10/26/11)
The end of 2011 is a golden opportunity to participate in an anticipated upside for mining equities, says Tocqueville Asset Management Senior Managing Director John Hathaway. We caught up to him at the Casey Research/Sprott Inc. Summit "When Money Dies" for this exclusive interview with The Gold Report. Hathaway predicted that once investors realize higher gold prices will stick, they will take a chance on the big upside waiting in the junior and senior space. More >

Relative Strength Analysis Is Important for Gold Stocks
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (10/26/11)
"There are hundreds of gold and silver stocks and they won't always trend in the same direction—you need to be a stock picker in this sector if you want to earn the best returns." More >

A Guide to Econ Reports This Week
Source: Dirk van Dijk, Zacks Investment Research  (10/26/11)
"Despite earlier fears that we were falling back into a double dip, it now looks like growth will come in much better than the very anemic 1.3% rate of the second quarter." More >

Gold Moving Opposite to Stocks Again
Source: Ben Traynor, Bullion Vault  (10/26/11)
"The rally marks the first time in several weeks that gold has traded inversely to equities." More >

Jeff Wright: $1,900 Gold Average Predicted
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (10/24/11)
With investors and hedge fund managers taking flight toward cash and larger-cap equities, and the European sovereign debt crisis still hanging fire, the market is in for a bumpy ride, but in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Jeff Wright, an analyst with Global Hunter Securities, foresees upward trends for gold. More >