What Does Silver’s Recent Performance Relative to Oil Mean to Silver Investors?

Gold market witnessed a bumpy roller coaster ride during the week. An interesting thing to observe was the reasons that economic commentators gave for price fluctuations. On Tuesday gold for June delivery lost $14.50 to settle at $1,453.60...

Investing in Gold, Silver, Oil & Corn—Frankly, You Just Can’t Do Much Better

It seems that the only growth stocks out there in this market are related to natural resources (i.e. gold, silver, oil, corn). We might only be halfway through the current commodity price cycle and, even if you don’t much...

The U.S. Dollar’s Impact on Price Action in the S&P 500, Gold, & Oil

I was starting to put on my bullish hat on Friday morning when out of the blue an ugly close has forced me to rethink my position.

Why Gold and Gold Shares have Consolidated for Five Months

Yes Gold has been flirting with all-time highs. Sounds strong, right? Wrong. In reality, Gold has been in a consolidation or running correction since October of last year. In recent weeks Gold has flirted with all-time highs but hasn’t...

Crude Oil, Gold, and Silver – Important Timing Connection?

Recent developments in precious metals space raise series of questions in terms of sustainability of yellow and white metal moves in the foreseeable future. In order to gauge near-term precious metal moves, investors track precious metals’ relationship between currency...

Gold and Silver Mining Stocks Gain Momentum – What’s Next?

Mounting social and political unrest in the Middle East boosted appeal for commodities as a safe investment option in recent weeks.

Gold and Oil Should Outperform as the Dollar Continues to Fall

Some financial commentators have picked up on the fact that the dollar has failed to get a safe haven bid so far during the turmoil in the Middle East. This isn’t normal, especially considering the problems one of the...

Civil Unrest Moving Markets

Things are really starting to get interesting as civil unrest is having real effects on various markets. Oil is testing $100, gold is near its all-time highs, and stocks are selling off. Gadhafi has opened fire on his own...

Is The Consumer “Recovering?”

Let’s breakdown the December trade deficit numbers released today.  For all of December, the trade deficit was $40.6 billion, roughly in-line with expectations and up $2.7 billion from November.  The media is already pointing to the fact that imports increased by $5.1 billon...

Gold & Investment in Failure

The US banking sector died in September 2008. It has not acted like a credit distribution apparatus in two years. The US Federal Reserve has served almost the complete function.......