Leonard Melman: Put Your Trust in Precious Metals, Not Governments
Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Gold Report  (11/6/13)
Continued fiscal stimulus, high debt levels and loss of confidence in governments will lead to the return of big inflation and a consequent big run-up in precious and other metals, says Leonard Melman, author of The Melman Report. In this interview with The Gold Report, Melman examines six companies he believes are well positioned to generate stock-price multiples when the bull market returns. More >

Play the Market Bottom and Focus on Energy Commodities: Chris Berry
Source: J. Alec Gimurtu of The Mining Report  (11/5/13)
Commodities are and always will be a cyclical market, asserts Chris Berry of House Mountain Partners. That's why he's not sweating disappointing stock performance and flat pricing environments. But the self-described long-term bull on energy materials has big plans on how to play growth in the developing world, and he insists that now is the time for investors to position themselves ahead of an upswing. Find out about companies that have the cash, the assets and the strategy to create long-term shareholder value in this interview with The Mining Report. More >

Here's How Pharma Stocks Are Outperforming the S&P 500
Source: Ryan Allway, Wall St. Cheat Sheet  (11/5/13)
"While a lot of uncertainties remain within the healthcare system, the innovation coming out of the pharmaceutical sector continues to drive financial results and equity valuations higher." More >

The Visual Capitalist's Guide to Precious Metals Stock Picking
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (11/4/13)
With more than 1,700 precious metals mining companies listed on the Toronto exchanges, separating the wheat from the chaff is no easy task. Visual Capitalist has developed Tickerscores, an empirical approach to scoring gold explorers, developers and producers. In this interview with The Gold Report, Jeff Desjardins, president of Visual Capitalist, and Rob Fuhrman, lead analyst, walk readers through their methodology and reveal which companies in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. measure up as high-potential investments.
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Gold Versus Wall Street's Program Traders
Source: Clif Droke  (11/4/13)
"As long as gold and the gold ETFs remain below the 150-day moving average the bears can claim control over the intermediate-term trend. A close above the 150-day moving average, however, would set up a retest of the late August high and would be an inviting target for the bulls to complete a bottoming pattern that was begun four months ago." More >

Don't Miss This Golden Cross in Energy Resources
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors  (11/4/13)
"We believe great value in today's energy market lies in selectively choosing companies that own high-quality assets in the core basin areas of Eagle Ford, Permian, Marcellus and Bakken. What's important to our process is finding oil and gas companies that are growing their reserves, production and cash flows on a per share basis." More >

3 Promising Biotech Stocks with Upcoming Catalysts
Source: Tom Meyer, Wall St. Cheat Sheet  (11/4/13)
"Biotechnology stocks are some of the most volatile investments around. They are hard to analyze because, unlike almost all other stocks, the fundamentals aren't typically as important as the potential. And the potential is usually based on upcoming catalysts that the company will face." More >

Sulliden Gold's Low-Cost Shahuindo Project Validated by Agnico-Eagle Investment
Source: Dan Lonkevich of The Gold Report  (11/1/13)
Sulliden Gold Corporation Ltd.'s Shahuindo gold project in Peru was validated as a low-cost, high-return project by a strategic investment of $24 million by Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. last April. Sulliden's president and director, Justin Reid, tells The Gold Report about the factors that have led to the company being one of the top performing mining stocks on the Toronto Stock Exchange this year. Sulliden has a balance sheet of $70 million, including a recently completed $40 million bought-deal financing, and Reid says the company is close to finalizing the funding package needed to complete the construction phase of the project in 2014 and begin the first full year of production in 2015. More >

2013 Biotech Watchlist Update: Companies Climb and Crumble on Catalysts
Source: George S. Mack of The Life Sciences Report   (10/31/13)
The Life Sciences Report's Biotech Watchlist, introduced in January 2013, is composed of 17 companies that industry analysts felt showed promise for the coming year—companies with productive pipelines, good management and stock-moving catalysts on the horizon. The new year presented legitimate prospects for portfolio growth and, indeed, that has been the case. In this update, we summarize the current status of Watchlist companies and introduce our Portfolio Tracker, showing the status of each company in real time. More >

Why Chen Lin Is Buying Fracking Stocks and Selling Gold Holdings
Source: Tom Armistead of The Energy Report  (10/31/13)
Chen Lin, author of What is Chen Buying? What Is Chen Selling?, goes wherever he sees returns. In the summer, he bought mining stocks when the yellow metal hit $1,200 per ounce. Now, he's trading in his gold names and moving into the fracking space after a three-year hiatus. In this interview with The Energy Report, Lin names the companies he's buying to play a likely energy sector bottom and tells investors to actively manage their portfolios in the coming stock-picker's market. More >

Carbon Is the Problem: Is Graphene the Solution?
Source: Christine Hertzog, The Energy Collective  (10/31/13)
"The search is on to find a better material than silicon—one that is much more energy-efficient and less likely to produce waste heat." More >

Gissen and Berol's Gold Stock Tricks and Treats
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (10/30/13)
No matter how elaborate an investor's Halloween costume is, the gold space isn't handing out much in the way of treats this year. While Encompass Fund Managers Malcolm Gissen and Marshall Berol don't agree on the timeline for gold's recovery, they have faith that it will come. In the meantime, their focus is on companies that are in production, generate cash flow and have top-notch management teams. They also dig into their treat bag for names in the energy sector and other metals in this interview with The Gold Report. More >

What Not to Do When Investing in Miners
Source: Eric Angeli, Sprott Global Resource Investments  (10/30/13)
"Precious metals miners are the most volatile stocks on earth. They're so volatile that investors often forget that underneath those whipsawing stock prices lie real businesses. But even many of those who consider themselves old pros in natural resource investing tend to get one thing wrong. Eric Angeli, an investment executive with Sprott Global Resources and protégé of legendary resource broker Rick Rule, explains how not to fall into the 'top-down' trap. . ." More >

Does Thorium Deserve a Role in Next-Generation Nuclear Energy?
Source: Jim Pierobon, The Energy Collective  (10/30/13)
"The world is still using the raw materials and components with one of the basic designs that built the first commercial nuclear power reactor more than a half-century ago." More >

Uranium Investors, Ignore the Noise! Fundamentals Are Compelling
Source: Tom Armistead of The Mining Report  (10/29/13)
Uranium prices and mining stocks are low, but market forces will push them both higher in the next 12–24 months, says David Sadowski. Miners are jockeying for position and the Raymond James mining analyst tells The Mining Report to expect mergers and acquisitions as they prepare for the good times to come. The market's supply glut will be gone by mid-decade, and mining will have to ramp up to head off a deficit by 2020. The time to buy is now. More >

Jordan Roy-Byrne: When Stalking Juniors, Follow the Leaders
Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Gold Report  (10/28/13)
The bear market in precious metals equities will end soon, says Jordan Roy-Byrne, editor and publisher of The Daily Gold Premium, perhaps even by the end of the year. But the rising tide will not lift all juniors equally. In this interview with The Gold Report, Roy-Byrne explains why bottom-fishing is a bad idea and why the savvy investor must find companies that will not just survive but thrive when the bears become bulls. More >

Investors Are Holding Gold as Fed Turns Dovish
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (10/28/13)
"Gold last week enjoyed its strongest rise in almost three months, adding 2.6% as silver rose 2.9%." More >

When Nuclear Energy Lights Every Home on Earth
Source: Josh Grasmick, Daily Reckoning  (10/28/13)
"Sooner than you think, biology will be reprogrammed to 'grow' new energy." More >

Categorizing LifeSci Investments + 2 Niche Market Picks
Source: Brian Wilson, BioMedReports   (10/28/13)
"This is not to say that investors should necessarily avoid small or medium-sized clinical life science companies. The high risk comes with a high potential for return, although investors will probably have to spend a lot more time with their due diligence. Also required is a strong stomach for the volatility of these stocks." More >

This Biotechnology Platform Could Save Millions of Lives: Patrick Cox
Source: George S. Mack of The Life Sciences Report  (10/24/13)
Patrick Cox, editor of the brand-new publication Transformational Technology Alert, is acutely aware of how transformational technology platforms can enable efficiencies and improve scale a la Moore's Law. A sweeping new synthetic vaccine platform that poses infinite possibilities for researchers and could produce novel preventive and therapeutic drugs is a quintessential example. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Cox delivers a single name that holds the potential to save lives on a mass scale, cheaply and efficiently, in both the developed and developing world—and deliver health and wealth to investors' portfolios as well. More >

James C. West: Positive 2014 Outlook for Oil and Gas
Source: Tom Armistead of The Energy Report  (10/24/13)
James C. West, lead oil services and drilling analyst at Barclays, sees incredible growth ahead for oil production around the world. In this interview with The Energy Report, West explains how likely constitutional change in Mexico will spur momentous industry growth, along with new deepwater targets opening up in offshore China. Meanwhile, decent commodity prices and economic improvement in Eastern Europe are creating powerful oil price tailwinds. But the best news in North America. Find out which companies are positioned to thrive in the year ahead. More >

The Miners That Made Haywood's Quarterly Cut: Kerry Smith
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (10/23/13)
There are no easy answers in this market. Companies and investors alike have to hunker down and make tough calls, but that doesn't mean companies and investors can't make money, even in the short term, says Kerry Smith, a research analyst with Haywood Securities. Smith and Haywood's staff geologists narrow their sights on small companies cheaply exploring for beaten-up commodities. In this interview with The Gold Report, Smith reveals some fresh names, as well as perennial favorites on Haywood's quarterly round-up. More >

3 Reasons Gold Could Scream Higher
Source: Greg Guenthner, The Daily Reckoning  (10/23/13)
"After faking a move lower, gold futures have broken above resistance, posting the first higher low since early July. This could be a significant short-term bottom—especially since it was preceded by a false move lower." More >

10 Strategies for Success in a Flat Commodity Price Market: John Kaiser
Source: JT Long of The Mining Report  (10/22/13)
It could be 2017 before the commodity supercycle is evident again, but stormy weather in the mining space has a silver lining: It is encouraging miners to develop new, innovative approaches to their business. In this interview for the first edition of The Mining Report, John Kaiser of Kaiser Research Online outlines 10 strategies that are setting certain companies apart. Discover the companies that are redefining their business, as well as miners with the goods in the ground to continue come rain or shine. More >

4 Pharma Stocks Could Deliver Earnings Surprises
Source: Zacks Equity Research  (10/22/13)
"New products are expected to support top line going forward. This, along with increased pipeline visibility and smart utilization of cash, should increase confidence in the sector." More >