Commentaries

TICKERS: CXO, GQC, MRZ, MUN, RMC, ROG, SMN, SVL; SVLC, TGM Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Gold Report  (11/27/13) As the price of gold rose upward, junior miners chased ounces at all costs. This was a huge mistake, says Eric Coffin, because it resulted in unexciting projects, low margins and a depressed market. In this interview … Continue reading

Based on the November 22nd, 2013 Premium Update. Visit our archives for more gold & silver articles. In our latest free essay, we focused on silver. We wrote: “the outlook for silver remains bearish and further declines should not surprise us.” On the same day, after the essay was posted, silver declined sharply moving very … Continue reading

It has been a difficult week for the precious markets as gold dropped by 3.2% and silver by 3.9% which means that gold and silver are now back to price levels last seen in July and August respectively.

[audio:http://ceo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mark-ODea-Podcast-Nov-15-2013.mp3] Track record is everything in junior mining. Mark O’Dea took Fronteer Gold from a $1 million shell in 2001 to a diversified mine developer that sold for $2.3 billion to Newmont in 2011. The Vancouver-based, 45-year-old Newfoundland-born geologist also created Aurora Energy in 2006, and sold its Labrador uranium assets for $260 million to … Continue reading

The incredible rally in equities in 2013 has begun to stir concern among many that the stock market is now in a bubble.

The weekly chart of the HUI Gold Bugs index asks a question we have been reviewing in NFTRH for some time now; is the bottoming situation implied by the up-triggered weekly MACD (and confirming TRIX) a ‘W’ bottom in the making that saw its low at 206?  Or is it an Inverted Head & Shoulders (IHS), that … Continue reading

At the end of October, in our essay on dollar and the general stock market we discussed the USD and S&P 500’s implications for the precious metals market.

Without a doubt, the biggest news in recent weeks has been the upcoming replacement of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke by Janet Yellen, Vice Chair of the Board of Governors and a highly qualified economist who, many predict will continue in the Bernanke mold.

TICKERS: BTG; BTO; B2G, LODE, KOR, KDX; KLNDF, MDW, PPP, SVL; SVLC, YRI; AUY; YAU Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (11/11/13) It may be hard to find someone as enthusiastic about precious metals mining as Sean Brodrick. A natural resource strategist with the Baltimore-based Oxford Club, an independent financial organization, Brodrick isn’t only filling his … Continue reading

In our Wednesday’s free essay we discussed the situation in the Euro Index and mining stocks.