All Posts Tagged With: "precious metals"

Strong Dollar Rally Causes Gold Prices to Tumble

Gold prices tumbled below $800 per ounce for the first time since late 2007 Friday, as the continuing U.S. dollar rally sparked an across-the-board retreat in commodity prices.

Gold closed Friday at $792 an ounce, a decline of $22.40, or 2.75%.…

19Aug2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Charting New Highs for Precious Metals

Precious Metals Poised for All-Time Highs

Taking a look at the longer term charts is always a fun proposition and this week things look exceptionally well. Gold is ready to fight for another all-time high in the near future, silver looks…

16Jul2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued

Investing in Vanadium

Finding Fuel Efficient Metals

Ultra high-strength and super-light steels are the plastics of the 21st century. There is high demand for these steels for use in everything from jet engines to rail components. In turn, there is a big push for…

16Jul2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | Continued

Precious Metals Gearing Up

By Nick Jones
Editor, Real Deal

The PMs have taken the back seat in the most recent rally in commodities. While corn, soy beans, oil, and other commodities were making either fresh contract or all time highs on a daily basis, the…

26Jun2008 | Nick Jones | 0 comments | Continued

In the Valley of Gold

What you make of the gold market right now depends on what you make of the kind of data UBS’s precious metals team follows.

Big institutional players in the New York futures market slashed their bullish betting on gold in the…

21Jun2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | Continued

How to Survive Stagflation – With a Profit in Your Pocket

Increasingly in recent weeks commentators have begun speculating about the dreaded “S-word”- stagflation- and whether or not such a protracted period featuring both high prices and high unemployment would blight the U.S. economy.

The stagflation debate arose anew on Friday…

10Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

China Earthquake: The economic aftershocks

A Chinese friend of mine spent most of last week on the phone, checking up on family. He’s from Sichuan, the Chinese province most affected by last Monday’s earthquake. The death toll is now expected to exceed 50,000. But millions…

19May2008 | J. Christoph Amberger | 0 comments | Continued

Gold Investing: Do not follow the herd

Investing in Gold

I spend a lot of time each year in Alaska. Much of the time I am spinning in circles trolling for salmon or jigging for barn door-sized halibut. Needless to say, when I get home I love to show off…

19Mar2008 | Andrew Snyder | 0 comments | Continued

TFN Smart Trading: Profit from Copper Volatility

5Mar2008 | Stephen Oakes | 0 comments | Continued