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Natural Resource-Related Stocks Show Promise: Frank Barbera

Article Picture The Gold Report: Europe is in the headlines daily: more leftists coming to power, regional banks suffering, renewed recession appearing to take hold. What is your take on Europe? Frank Barbera: In the headlines, Europe looks like quite the mess. Imagine being a Greek who saved over a lifetime now facing the possibility of devaluation or Greece leaving the euro.

Weekly Apple (AAPL) Trade For May 21, 2012

Article Picture If you followed last week's AAPL covered calls you ended up not being called out because AAPL finished below the lowest suggested strike of 540. You ended up owning AAPL at one of these net debits (stock price minus call premium received): On May 14 you bought AAPL at 563.50 and wrote one of these: Strike Call Bid Net Debit 540 24.90 538.60 545 20.50 543.00 550 16.40 547.

The Recovery Is an Illusion: John Williams

Article Picture The Gold Report: John, at the recent Casey Research Recovery Reality Check conference you described the economic recovery heralded by the Obama administration as an illusion based largely on skewed inflation data. Can you walk us through why, based on your calculations, a recovery is impossible? John Williams: We can start with the gross domestic product (GDP), which like most economic reports is adjusted for inflation.

MAJOR LONG-TERM BOTTOMS FORMING IN GOLD AND COMMODITIES

Article Picture Once every year gold and stocks form a major yearly cycle low. Commodities form a major cycle bottom every 2 1/2 to 3 years. Every once in a while all three of those major cycles hit at the same time. I'm pretty sure that's what is happening right now.

Lithium Demand Will Rise Significantly: Mansur Khan

Article Picture The Energy Report: EVs don't burn gas, but power must come from some source of fuel, such as nuclear, coal, hydro, gas, solar, geo or wind. So, what is the value of an electric vehicle (EV)? How does it help?Mansur Khan: From a societal and governmental point of view, there are a number of benefits. EVs can really help reduce carbon emissions. Their energy efficiency is very high, sometimes over three times that of conventional combustion engines.

What Lies Ahead for Junior E&Ps: Bruce Edgelow

Article Picture The Energy Report: Bruce, what major changes do you see under way for junior explorers and producers (E&Ps)?Bruce Edgelow: Juniors have begun to transition from drilling moderately priced individual vertical wells to drilling much more capital-intensive resource plays. For example, in 2000 the cost to drill and complete one well in Pembina was ~$330,000. By 2010, the cost had ballooned to ~$2.75 million (M) due to horizontal drilling and more complex completion techniques.

Bob Moriarty: A Contrarian’s Guide to Volatile Markets

Article Picture The Gold Report: We're hearing many people these days warning that it's not a good time for investing in junior mining stocks. The TSX Venture Exchange has been experiencing some of its lowest volumes in six to nine months. What do you believe investors should do this summer? Bob Moriarty: Anybody following my website for years will be familiar with me saying this: You can ignore technical analysis. You can ignore seasonality. You can ignore fundamentals.

Weekly Apple (AAPL) Trade For May 14, 2012

Article Picture Based on the success of last week's weekly trade and the fact that Apple and the market are down this morning on European fears, we're going to propose another Apple trade idea. This is a 5 day covered call trade using the May 19 expiration. Annualized Return Of 19% to 38% There are several in the money strikes offering an annualized return of 19% or higher right now.

Canadian Coal Moles: Jerome Hass and Jimmy Chu

Article Picture The Energy Report: To get started, what differentiates Lightwater Partners from other hedge funds?Jerome Hass: Canadian hedge funds tend to be high-risk/high-return strategies primarily focused in the resource space. We focus on risk-adjusted returns, as opposed to trying to hit homeruns with individual stocks. As a consequence, we concentrate on the mid-cap space. That's our investment sweet spot, rather than the small- or micro-cap names.

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  • Natural Resource-Related Stocks Show Promise: Frank Barbera

    The Gold Report: Europe is in the headlines daily: more leftists coming to power, regional banks suffering, renewed recession appearing to take hold. What is your take on Europe?

    Frank Barbera: In the headlines, Europe looks like quite the mess. Imagine being a Greek who saved over a lifetime now facing the possibility of devaluation or Greece leaving the euro. If Greece pulls out of the euro and devalues, most of the people will see their life savings collapse in terms of purchasing power.

    In my view, there is a pretty good chance that would spark a contagion. When people in Spain or Italy see Greece pull out and return to a devalued drachma, there will be . . . → Read More: Natural Resource-Related Stocks Show Promise: Frank Barbera

  • Natural Resource-Related Stocks Show Promise: Frank Barbera

    The Gold Report: Europe is in the headlines daily: more leftists coming to power, regional banks suffering, renewed recession appearing to take hold. What is your take on Europe?

    Frank Barbera: In the headlines, Europe looks like quite the mess. Imagine being a Greek who saved over a lifetime now facing the possibility of devaluation or Greece leaving the euro. If Greece pulls out of the euro and devalues, most of the people will see their life savings collapse in terms of purchasing power.

    In my view, there is a pretty good chance that would spark a contagion. When people in Spain or Italy see Greece pull out and return to a devalued drachma, there will be . . . → Read More: Natural Resource-Related Stocks Show Promise: Frank Barbera

  • Dr. Frankenstein’s Europe

    "Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race."

    – The musings of Dr. Frankenstein about his creation of a monster, in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein

    And later the monster answers:

    "Shall each man," cried he, "find a wife for his . . . → Read More: Dr. Frankenstein’s Europe

  • The People Have Spoken and Precious Metals Will Soar: Leonard Melman

    TGR: It seems that economists can plan and recommend, and politicians can negotiate and maneuver, and pundits can analyze and predict all they want, yet when the people don’t want to play along, it can all mean nothing. Of course, we’re talking about the elections in France and Greece. What’s going on?

    Leonard Melman: What’s going on is that the monetary authorities in Europe have decided that austerity is the only way out of the financial dilemma, which I find kind of amusing, because it is their Keynesian activities that created those policies in the first place. Their decision now is that austerity, which is cutting back government programs, is the only thing that will work. The problem is . . . → Read More: The People Have Spoken and Precious Metals Will Soar: Leonard Melman

  • Are JPMorgan Chase ETNs Safe?

    I don’t know about you, but here in Texas I can barely drive a mile without passing a JPMorgan Chase (JPM) branch. They’re even inside the grocery stores.

    Simply being everywhere doesn’t make a bank safe, of course. As we learned last week, traders in London just cost JPMorgan $2 BILLION and possibly more! Fitch Ratings downgraded its credit rating one notch to A-plus, and it looks like Moody’s may cut the bank, too.

    Weiss Ratings, ahead of the curve as usual, cut JPMorgan Chase to “D” on September 30, 2010. And on October 22, 2010, they issued a special news release advising subscribers that among U.S. banks, JPMorgan was carrying the largest . . . → Read More: Are JPMorgan Chase ETNs Safe?
 
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