By Brad Zigler
Recently, in response to our article on the gold/oil ratio ("What's The Gold/Oil Ratio Telling Us?"), a reader puzzled over the relationship of gold to oil and natural gas. "With natural gas so cheap in comparison to oil currently," he noted, [...]
Wall Street lends itself to clever aphorisms. One of the more popular is that you cannot go broke taking profits. That may be true, but you also cannot generate great gains if you take small profits each time they become available.
We must push each position [...]
Look who has crawled out of the woodwork, yet again. Yes, it's the deflationists, spurred on by recent falls in gold, silver and crude.
We find it hard to accept a deflationary scenario when inflation premiums on the US 5, 7, 10, 20 & 30 year treasuries [...]
MALTRATA, MEXICO -- Drug traffickers employing high-tech drills, miles of rubber hose and a fleet of stolen tanker trucks have siphoned more than $1 billion worth of oil from Mexico's pipelines over the [...]
The action of the CRB Spot Raw Industrials index and long dated US Treasuries suggest that this is a fantastic buying opportunity for crude oil, gold and silver and the broad commodity group in general! Yes we are well aware of the recent weakness in crude and [...]
Arjun Rudra submits: Q: In the face of the recent volatility in the stock market, and gold hitting new all time highs – what would be you’re view of gold moving forward (is this the end of the bull run or does gold have a ways to go)?
WLL Operations Update; Lewis & Clark Success
Lewis & Clark Prospect Area (Golden Valley County, ND):
The team over at MarketClub just released two new technical analysis videos. You can check out the video on crude oil here and then the video on Apple here. Starting with crude oil first, Adam has identified a pattern where oil actually pulls back every [...]
Gold prices hit record highs over $1,227 on 3 Dec 2009 as the precious metal continued to attract investors looking for an alternative to the dollar. Gold prices have risen by more than 7% since touching a low [...]
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The recent run-up in gold and oil prices is not inflationary, said James Bullard, the president of St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, in a CNBC television interview Wednesday. Bullard said the Fed generally would not like to start tightening monetary policy until the unemployment [...]
In Part I, we mentioned how uncertain past data is, in particular for the countries of the Former Soviet Union. Furthermore, gold producers try to inflate their discoveries to get higher stock markets values, even to the extent of fraud. A series of high profile resource stock scams took place [...]
This is the second installment of a guest post by Jean Laherrére on peak gold. The first part can be read here. This time Jean takes a macroscopic perspective on gold mining for the world as whole.
Note: This post contains 33 images amounting to 1.5 [...]
BEIJING (Reuters) - Dubai's debt crisis could be China's opportunity to snap up gold and oil assets, a senior Chinese official said in remarks published on Monday.
China's $2.27 trillion in foreign exchange reserves are mostly parked in U.S. treasuries, despite calls from some in China to invest the reserves in [...]
Commodities prices slumped after Dubai sought to defer some debt payments, rattling investors and spurring a dollar rally. Gold for immediate delivery fell to $1,177.63 after touching a record $1,195.13 on 26 Nov 2009. Gold prices have advanced 33% [...]
I'm constantly amazed at the inability of US economic and financial "expert policymakers" to understand the true reason behind gold's big move: OIL. The inflation adjusted high for gold was set in January 1980 at $2,290 an ounce. It is not a coincidence this high was set just after the' [...]
With production halved since 2000, companies want more help with tax breaks
Europa Oil & Gas has just started drilling in Lincolnshire, part of a long tradition of small companies hoping to strike "black gold" in Britain. But, whereas hope springs eternal in the minds of the oil men, Peak Oil [...]
China and India are moving forward with large-scale plans [...]
This is a guest post by Jean Laherrère on gold. Although of little relevance to our economies in the present day, this precious metal has been used as money for many thousands of years, and still retains its importance and value. In a two part article, Jean analyses how gold [...]
This is a guest post by Jean Laherrère on gold. Although of little relevance to our economies in the present day, this precious metal has been used as money for many thousands of years, and still retains its importance and value. In a two part article, Jean [...]
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