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| WEEKLY NEWS EDITORIALS |
By MarcDavis,
www.Top40GoldStocks.com
and www.BNWnews.ca
In a jittery stock market, the only gold stocks that investors should own are for companies that really do have the goods. This is the consensus view among various gold investment industry commentators and analysts.
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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
Several delegations of high-powered Chinese investment consortiums, government representatives from Beijing, and state-run mining companies have in recent weeks visited Western Potash Corp. (TSX: WPX) (FSE: AHE).
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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
With gold prices continuing to shine as the fragile global economic recovery falters yet again, equally buoyant silver prices have given the mining industry considerable impetus to increase production. But that’s simply not happening.
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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
Latin America represents the world’s last great mineral frontier for prolific gold discoveries due to its vast land mass and its geologically fertile terrain. This is proving to be a godsend for some lucky investors, while others have seen their luck turn to shattered dreams.
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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
With bullion prices at all-time highs and world-class gold discoveries becoming ever more elusive, the investment industry is gambling increasingly sizeable sums of money on major mines-in-the-making. A recent example of this new trend involves Exeter Resource Corporation (TSX.V: XRC) (NYSE-A: XRA). Specifically, a handful of top-tier investment banks snapped up the high-flying mining junior’s CDN $57.5 million equity financing last month in less than 24 hours.
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By Marc Davis, BNWnews.ca
Since the overhaul of Argentina’s protectionist mining laws in 1993, gold production has seen a parabolic rise from a paltry 36,000 ounces to 1.40 million ounces in 2008. (Data for 2009 has not yet been made public). This makes Argentina the third most prolific producer in Latin America. Only Peru and Brazil posted better numbers at 5.78 million ounces and 1.55 million ounces of gold, respectively.
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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
These are boom times for Vancouver-headquartered New Gold Inc. (TSX: NGD (NYSE-AMEX: NGD). Indeed, this emerging mid-tier gold producer has gone from strength to strength over the last couple of years.
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Peter Krauth, Money Morning
And China will play a huge role in doing so.
The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable American icons in the world.
And as she towers 305 feet above Ellis Island, what's Lady Liberty wearing? Copper - 60,000 pounds of it.
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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
The race to build up Canada’s potash supplies to keep pace with burgeoning global demand is turning Saskatchewan’s tiny handful of junior potash explorers into ripe plums for the picking.
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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
As the gold market continues its lustrous trend, the corporate elbowing and shoving to get at the richest buried treasures is getting increasingly cutthroat. A prime example involves northern Chile’s clutch of mostly prolifically sized gold/copper deposits.
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By Marc Davis, BNWnews.ca
Central banks – the long-time nemesis of the gold sector – are doing an about-face to become its biggest supporters. And this quantum shift promises to gather momentum in 2010 with the prospect of a new era of net buying continuing to fuel robust demand for bullion.
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by Mary Anne & Pamela Aden
Happy New Year. The year is drawing to a close. And what a year it’s been, filled with twists and turns, some surprises, thrills, excitement, history and some disappointments too, all topped off with gold skyrocketing in its biggest monthly rise in a decade.
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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
With bullion prices at all-time highs and world-class gold discoveries becoming ever more elusive, the investment industry is gambling increasingly sizeable sums of money on major mines-in-the-making.
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by Marc Davis, BNWNews.ca
Silver may yet outshine gold in 2010 as spot prices for the white metal respond to the prospect of a surge in industrial demand. With a little additional help from investment demand, silver may even rally into the $25 an ounce range
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by Marc Davis, BNWNews
As the world’s key gold producing nations struggle mostly in vain to replenish dwindling below-ground supplies, Mexico is bucking the trend in a big way.
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By Marc Davis, BNW News
Gold prices will surge to unprecedented new highs in the event of a military showdown between Western powers and Iran. This is the consensus among various leading investment industry forecasters.
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by Marc Davis, BNWNews
Only a tiny handful of huge gold discoveries have been made worldwide in the last decade, which experts say is because virtually all the juiciest low-hanging fruit has been picked some time ago. And this new reality promises to help edge bullion prices increasingly higher.
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By The Economist
A weak dollar explains gold’s rise.
Gold fascinates investors. The latest surge in bullion—nominal prices this week topped $1,050 an ounce, a record—has generated headlines that would not have been seen if nickel had reached a new peak.
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by Marc Davis, BNWNews
Gold will soon become the next global asset bubble now that pivotal global economic events are finally converging to propel its ascent into record territory. This is the most recent consensus shared by many key business leaders who have the most at stake.
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by Marc Davis, BNWNews
Gold will soon become the next global asset bubble now that pivotal global economic events are finally converging to propel its ascent into record territory. This is the most recent consensus shared by many key business leaders who have the most at stake.
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By Peter Schiff
Like a battering ram in a medieval siege, gold keeps hammering away at the gate. For the third time in less than twelve months, the yellow metal is once again crashing into the $1,000 per ounce level.
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by Frank Holmes
We’re heading into September next week, so it’s a good time to revisit the historic seasonality of gold and gold stocks.
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by Mary Anne & Pamela Aden
The commodity market is bubbling. Whether it be sugar reaching a three year high, copper and other base metals reaching almost one year highs, or oil and gold rising further. The markets are looking good.
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By John Browne
In economics, as in many other “soft sciences,” facts are often overshadowed by theories. The dominant economic theory currently in vogue is that the massive government stimuli orchestrated by the Bush and Obama administrations would produce an economic recovery by the end of this year.
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By Merk Hard Currency Fund
Inflation is dead – long live inflation! We hear about the threat of hyperinflation in the media – is this for real, can it happen in the U.S.?
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By Marc Davis of BNW News
Gold prices are poised for a “spectacular” and prolonged rally as the recession deepens and investors finally become disillusioned with the U.S. dollar.
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By Marc Davis
BNW Business News
The dominance of Canada’s high-powered cartel of three major potash producers may come to an end if a couple of small but well-financed potash exploration upstarts continue their winning ways.
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By Marc Davis of BNW News
Something wicked this way comes! So, be afraid. Be very afraid.
(Unless you’re a gold bug).The recent rally in American and Canadian equity markets is soon to give way to a gut-wrenching collapse that will push equities to shocking new lows, with gold prices reacting by rallying to new highs.
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By Marc Davis of BNW News
A continued global economic tsunami and the increasingly urgent scramble for an investment lifeline will combine to power gold prices ominously higher and into uncharted territory later this year.
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July 29, 2010 | NPR · Tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 are to expire in January unless Congress renews some or all of them. The cost of extending them by a decade: nearly $3 trillion. David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, offers his insight.
July 28, 2010 | NPR · Many business owners in the Gulf, from plumbers to beauticians, are filing claims with BP. The ultimate decision about compensation is in the hands of administrator Kenneth Feinberg, unless people want to try their luck in court.
July 28, 2010 | NPR · The payout of pensions is proving financially burdensome to states and localities. So how sustainable are these pensions? To find out, Robert Siegel talks to Susan Urahn, managing director of the Pew Center on the States, who helped produce their report "The Trillion Dollar Gap: Underfunded State Retirement Systems and the Road to Reform." Urahn says states are obligated to pay because it is a state constitutional obligation, and she says, "The likely scenario is taxes will go up to pay the promises they made."
July 28, 2010 | NPR · The president has been traveling the country to talk about the economy, but it's far from clear the tour is helping his cause. While the White House says it's not about boosting Obama's approval ratings, critics say the president, like yesterday's rock star, has been touring too long.
July 28, 2010 | NPR · The national unemployment rate is about 9.5 percent, but among African-Americans the figure is nearly 16 percent. So, many African-Americans have turned to the underground economy to make a living.
July 27, 2010 | NPR · A high-tech system will adjust the price at parking meters based on real-time information. The aim: To make prices just right.
July 27, 2010 | NPR · A growing population of college students is facing hunger and homelessness as tuitions rise and the economy is slow to recover. UCLA has created an Economic Crisis Response Team to identify financially strapped students and help keep them in school.
July 25, 2010 | NPR · The Oakland city council this month approved a landmark ordinance to license four large medical marijuana cultivation and processing facilities. The controversial plan could provide millions of dollars in tax revenue. But how much of this is legal, and who decides? From member station KQED, Michael Montgomery reports.
July 25, 2010 | NPR · This weekend, the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America brought its "Save the Dream" tour to Washington D.C. With lenders by its side, the group helps homeowners modify their mortgages to the point that they're affordable. But one major bank is no longer part of the "Dream."
July 23, 2010 | NPR · A handful of banks made paid huge bonuses after receiving federal bailout money. Banks should adopt "brake provisions" that allow them to throttle back compensation during future crises, according to a new report.
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