Leveraging the Medical Device Tax
Source: MassDevice  (6/15/12)
"Stakeholders should leverage the tax in their projections and negotiations with the industry, especially during mergers and acquisitions, notwithstanding the ongoing push in Washington to repeal the levy." More >

How to Find Small Companies with Big Prospects: Raghuram Selvaraju
Source: George S. Mack of The Life Sciences Report  (6/14/12)
Raghuram "Ram" Selvaraju's professional career started at the Geneva-based biotech firm Serono in 2000, where he discovered the first novel protein candidate developed entirely within the company. He subsequently became the youngest recipient of the company's Inventorship Award for Exceptional Innovation and Creativity. Now an analyst with Aegis Capital Corp., Selvaraju is bringing biotech growth names to his firm's customers. In this exclusive interview with
The Life Sciences Report
Selvaraju shares stock ideas that could return significant gains to investors. More >

Quality Oil and Gas Stocks Are On Sale: Joel Musante
Source: Zig Lambo of The Energy Report  (6/14/12)
The pullback in oil prices has created some attractive buying opportunities in both developing and established oil and gas companies, even if oil prices settle in the $80-90/bbl range. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Joel Musante, senior analyst with C. K. Cooper & Co., gives us his insights into current energy markets and talks about several of his favorite names that may reward investors with an appetite for risk. More >

Japan Moves Closer to Restarting First Nuclear Reactors Since Tsunami-Driven Meltdowns
Source: The Washington Post, Chico Harlan   (6/14/12)
"The nuclear reactor restarts would mark a controversial victory for the central government, which has spent months arguing that Japan needs nuclear power to sustain its fragile economy." More >

Platinum Outperforming Other Metals, Lifted By South African Supply Concerns
Source: Kitco News, Allen Sykora  (6/14/12)
"Some analysts have suggested platinum group metals could be among the metals that outperform if sentiment for industrial commodities were not getting dinged by the European debt crisis." More >

Are Gold and Silver Your Hedges Against Centrally Planned Economies?
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Street  (6/14/12)
"With the global solvency crisis far from being over, gold and silver still have huge potential as more central bank intervening is sure to come." More >

Gold Stocks Are Beating Gold, and You Can Thank Lower Oil
Source: Barron's, Brendan Conway  (6/14/12)
"A drop in the price of oil, a major cost for miners, may be the reason it finally happened." More >

Tiny the Mouse Takes a Giant Step for Mankind
Source: Severine Kirchner, The Daily Reckoning  (6/14/12)
"Don't be fooled by this little mouse's name, because what Tiny represents in the world of regenerative medicine is anything but tiny." More >

It's Growing Season, But Not for Fertilizer Stocks
Source: Forbes, Tom Aspray  (6/13/12)
"The seasonal trend analysis shows that historically, investors would be wise to wait until later in the year, when the fertilizer group typically bottoms." More >

Five Ways to Spot the Next Hot Biotech Stock
Source: Keith Fitz-Gerald, Money Morning  (6/13/12)
"For all their potential, biotech stocks remain among the most challenging for investors to identify, select and earn money on. However, with a little bit of guidance you can narrow your list to the stocks with the highest likely upside." More >

Euro Debt Crisis is Good for Gold and Silver: Sprott Money Manager Charles Oliver
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report   (6/13/12)
Charles Oliver, a senior portfolio manager for Sprott Asset Management, is keeping the faith that gold and silver stocks will eventually appreciate this year as Europe and the U.S. continue to print money. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Oliver says that an indicator that juniors are about to take off could be an improvement in certain bellwether mid-cap stocks. More >

Everything You Need to Know About Junior Mining Stocks
Source: Peter Krauth, Money Morning  (6/13/12)
"The truth is you need to approach the junior mining sector with a game plan, an investment 'tool kit' if you will, to help you to cast aside the dogs and focus on the 'diamonds in the rough.'" More >

Do Asian Central Banks Have Enough Gold?
Source: Reuters, Rhona O'Connell  (6/13/12)
"The Bank for International Settlements noted in its June 2012 Quarterly Review that 'central bank balance sheets in emerging Asia expanded rapidly over the past decade because of the unprecedented rise in foreign reserve assets.'" More >

Gold Jumps Again but Rangebound Below $1,640/oz
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (6/13/12)
"Buying commodities such as gold 'at current lows' has 'always been profitable' over the last 18 months, said Kevin Norrish, managing director of commodities research at Barclays." More >

New ETF Will Focus on North American Oil Sands
Source: Eric Dutram, Zacks Investment Research  (6/13/12)
"The ETF is a way to play the increasingly important North American oil sands industry. The region is incredibly stable from a political perspective, and it offers up a way to help shift the balance of power in the current OPEC/Russia-dominated oil markets." More >

Why Natural Gas Could Displace Gasoline
Source: Daniel Graeber, OilPrice.com  (6/13/12)
"How will natural gas figure into the North American energy mix? Well-known Author and energy trader Raymond Learsy weighs in." More >

What's the Deal with Oil Prices?
Source: Byron King, The Daily Reckoning  (6/13/12)
"Is the oil investment space under a pricing assault? I doubt it. Here's why: 40% of global oil production comes from places where the national governments cannot afford oil prices to go much lower." More >

Fukushima Watch: Next Nuclear Battleground—Utilities' Shareholder Meetings
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Mitsuru Obe  (6/13/12)
"With the government inching closer to restarting the first nuclear reactors since last year's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, a new battleground between Japan's pro- and anti-nuclear camps is emerging: the annual shareholder meetings of the country's big power companies in June." More >

Blaming the Machines for Gold
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (6/13/12)
"If London's market-making bullion banks feel they can't hang a story on what's driving the price tick-by-tick, few journalists or private investors will spot the 'true' cause either. So save your energy." More >

Duvernay Oil & Gas Stocks: Which Companies Will Emerge the Winners?
Source: Keith Schaefer, Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin  (6/13/12)
"There's no doubt that Duvernay will be a Big Boy's game, requiring large acreage positions and even larger amounts of capital." More >

It's Time to 'Buy Low' on Rare Earth Stocks: Byron King
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Critical Metals Report  (6/12/12)
Resource developers, especially in the rare earths space, are suffering from the market's obsession with immediate results, says Byron King, writer and editor for Agora Financial's Outstanding Investmentsand Energy & Scarcity Investor newsletters and contributor to the Daily Resource Hunter. Nonetheless, he argues, large-scale demand for high-tech metals remains. The question is, which developers can weather the storm? Read more in this exclusive Critical Metals Report interview. More >

Enzymes and Algae May Spur a Biofuel Boom: Ian Gilson
Source: George S. Mack of The Energy Report  (6/12/12)
What is the most viable form of alternative energy? For the oil-centric infrastructure of North America, biofuels make for strong contenders. The challenge facing the sector today concerns low-cost mass production, and researchers are already showing significant progress. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Senior Technology Analyst Ian Gilson of Zacks Investment Research shares select undervalued companies that stand out for their long-term profit potential. More >

Chart: The Natural Gas Bottleneck
Source: Adam English, Resource Investor  (6/12/12)
"The opportunity is obvious when we glance at the chart. Energy companies want to get liquefied natural gas on ships and into Asia, where they can take advantage of higher prices." More >

Why Solar and Natural Gas Will Be Central to US Energy Policy
Source: Greentech, Sheldon Kimber  (6/12/12)
"The development of hydraulic fracturing technology shares the spotlight with solar photovoltaic as the greatest revolution in energy in the last 50 years." More >

The US Oil Boom: Partying Like It's 1998
Source: The Atlantic, Jordan Weissmann  (6/12/12)
"Thanks to new drilling in North Dakota, Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, the United States is now pumping the highest crude oil volumes the country has managed since 1998." More >