Gold Seeing Resistance at $1,667/oz
Source: Ben Traynor, Bullion Vault  (1/18/12)
"The spot market price to buy gold climbed to $1,658/oz during Wednesday morning's London trade, following reports that the International Monetary Fund is seeking to boost its lending capacity by $1T." More >

Silver's 2011 Big Move: Was It The End Or The Beginning?
Source: Hubert Moolman  (1/18/12)
"I see no evidence to suggest that anything we've seen so far was the end of the silver bull market, so I am expecting a very powerful upleg yet to unfold." More >

Gold ETFs May Continue to Shine in 2012
Source: Neena Mishra, Zacks Investment Research  (1/18/12)
"Some of the factors that will likely support gold's upward trend in 2012 are rising inflationary expectations and heightened macroeconomic uncertainty in many countries." More >

Oil and Gas Service Stocks: A Different Way to Profit from Shale Boom
Source: Keith Kohl, Energy & Capital  (1/18/12)
"Smaller drillers are consistently outshining the lackluster performances of ExxonMobil and friends. That much isn't going to change." More >

Congress Has Bigger Fish to Fry than MLPs
Source: Hinds Howard, MLP HINDSight  (1/18/12)
"This year's report indicates that MLPs are expected to cost the government substantially less in lost tax revenue than was estimated a year ago." More >

US Must Change Policies to Take Full Advantage of 'Energy Bonanza': Mulva
Source: Jim Magill, Platts  (1/18/12)
"The US must adopt new policies if it is to take full advantage of the potential 'energy bonanza' resulting from advances in unconventional oil and natural gas production, ConocoPhillips Chairman and CEO James Mulva said Wednesday." More >

Resource Stocks Breaking Out of Bases and Forming New Uptrends
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades  (1/18/12)
"We noticed positive signals on our indicators suggesting that an impressive rally was in the offing, especially in our deeply oversold industrial metal miners." More >

When Will Gold Reach a New High?
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey Research  (1/18/12)
"We're confident that a new high in the gold price will come at some point, because many major currencies are unsound and overburdened with debt. Indeed, the ultimate high could be frighteningly higher than current levels." More >

Chinese Dragon to Unshackle Renminbi?
Source: Axel Merk, Merk Funds  (1/18/12)
"Chinese consumer spending is likely to have been underreported for some time; we don’t think a housing bust in China will stifle consumer spending as much as some fear." More >

Will China Unleash More Stimulus and Boost Gold Prices?
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet  (1/18/12)
"Although China may not provide more monetary easing through rate cuts, the nation avoiding a hard landing is bullish for precious metals and commodities." More >

Real Risks to the Gold Price
Source: Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault  (1/18/12)
"It's the real rate of interest that really matters to the ebb and flow of gold demand in the end." More >

Rare Earth Metals that Fit the Trends: Marcel Fuhrer
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Critical Metals Report  (1/17/12)
Success in the critical metals sector depends on finding the trends—how the metals will be used, where market share is allocated—and on familiarity with the companies you invest in, from who is on the management team to how much cash they have on hand. Bamert & Partner Portfolio Manager and Partner Marcel Fuhrer shares his views in this exclusive Critical Metals Report interview. More >

Oil and Gas Services Avoid Geopolitical Risk: John Stephenson
Source: Zig Lambo of The Energy Report  (1/17/12)
With oil reserves less and less accessible to western majors, producer stocks can carry significant geopolitical risk. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, First Asset Investment Management Inc. Senior Vice President John Stephenson explains why service-oriented companies are smart selections for risk-averse energy investors. No matter what happens in the oil and gas business, the companies doing the drilling have solid prospects in this market environment. More >

Gold and Silver Outlook in 2012
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold   (1/17/12)
"The bull market is far from over. Gold and silver have incurred technical damage and it would be excessive to expect more than a gradual recovery." More >

China: Hub of the Global Gold Market?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (1/17/12)
"With demand at its current levels, gold imports unrestrained and its own gold production now the world's largest national production level, China is inexorably moving to the heart of the gold world. It's therefore expected that China will aim to do what it can to exercise administrative dominance over it." More >

Has Gold's D-Wave Bottomed?
Source: Toby Connor, Gold Scents  (1/17/12)
"Gold is about to be severely tested. How gold handles that test will be a big clue as to whether or not the correction is over." More >

Gold Stock Investors—Buy "Best of Breed": John Stephenson
Source: Zig Lambo of The Gold Report  (1/16/12)
When it comes to picking gold mining names in the current market environment, John Stephenson, author and portfolio fund manager at First Asset Investment Management, believes that buying the "best of breed" is the way to go. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he explains his reasoning in light of how the current global economic environment is affecting prospects for the metals markets and valuations of mining company stocks. He also talks about his favorite picks in a range of three production classes and why he likes them. More >

Gold Gains Alongside Dollar
Source: Ben Traynor, Bullion Vault  (1/16/12)
"U.S. dollar spot gold prices climbed to hit $1,647/oz Monday morning in London, while stock and commodity markets were broadly flat as markets absorbed Friday's news of cuts to nine Eurozone sovereign credit ratings." More >

Nuclear Energy's (Growing) Rebound Potential
Source: Kent Moors, Money Morning  (1/16/12)
"All told, despite the political and environmental moves to end nuclear power, the global increase in reactors was inevitable. According to Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russia's state atomic energy company, the number of plants worldwide will double in the next 20 years." More >

New Zealand to Make 'Significant Changes' to Crown Minerals Act
Source: Dorothy Kosich, Mineweb  (1/16/12)
"We're going to make significant changes to the Crown Minerals Act because conversations under previous ministers have found that there are opportunities to improve the way that companies can access our minerals and apply for opportunities to explore." More >

2012 Natural Gas Price Forecast: Why to Avoid the 'Widow Maker'
Source: Jack Barnes, Money Morning  (1/16/12)
"Natural gas has collapsed in price instead of climbing during the peak winter cold months, but this price drop has more to do with U.S. production rising on a year-over-year basis than it does the weather." More >

Gold Trend Forecast for Q112
Source: Chris Vermeulen, The Gold and Oil Guy  (1/15/12)
"Expect a bumpy ride for both stocks and commodities in the first quarter of 2012." More >

Revisiting Our Proposal for an Overnight Gold Fund
Source: Sam Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (1/15/12)
"The majority of gold's declines in the recent major correction occurred during the intraday trading session, not the overnight trading session." More >

Gold Bugs, Stop Laughing!
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (1/14/12)
"Even the best stores of wealth, meaning gold and silver since 2002 and especially 2007, in Japan just as much as in the U.S. and Europe, might be vulnerable. Zero growth, and the zero rates through which central banks hope to undo it, are starting to set around investors like concrete." More >

Will Gold Regain Its Safe-Haven Status in 2012?
Source: Clif Droke, Silver & Gold Stock Report  (1/14/12)
"Gold and silver haven't yet benefited from the problems in Europe and instead investors have bypassed the precious metals and have flocked to the dollar." More >