Commentaries

Here is a little snippet from NFTRH 213 that showed the important indicator of gold sector health, the HUI-Gold Ratio (HGR) from three different views; daily, weekly and monthly.  As you can see, daily must hold to keep the weekly intact, which in turn must hold to keep the monthly big picture of the secular … Continue reading

Despite the recent weakness we are becoming increasingly bullish about the prospects for gold stocks.

Below is a chart looking at the S&P’s and Gold’s relative price performance over the past 5 years. Aside from the obvious, namely that gold has been a way better investment than stocks (up 100% versus down 5%), if we look a little more closely we can see an interesting trend emerge. (click for sharper … Continue reading

TICKERS: AXR; AXU, AR, AUN; AUNFF, RVM; RMV, RIO, SGR, SVL; SVLC, SAS Source: Alec Gimurtu for The Gold Report   (11/9/12) Christos Doulis is a mining analyst with Stonecap Securities covering emerging precious metals producers with market capitalizations under $1 billion. He combines financial modeling of current and future cash flows with detailed first-hand analysis … Continue reading

Many folks in the gold and silver community write to me, voicing their distaste in the economic and monetary policies of the Obama administration, and in particular, the “monetary easing” conducted by the US Federal Reserve. At surface, I understand—printing money (much like the printing of shares) is like watering down your milk in order to make … Continue reading

There were reasons for the mind numbing gold stock correction out of the hysterical events of the 2011 Euro-led meltdown and its aftermath.  Take your pick… Too many lousy gold mining operations not keeping on top of costs and/or execution projections. Too many scammy smaller operations doing little more than issuing stock and telling stories … Continue reading

There has been much discussion recently about the growing cost of running to be President of the United States.

We are experiencing a pullback in precious metals and mining stocks as investors react momentarily to a purported better than expected jobs report.

GDX declined by -0.74% while GDXJ declined by -0.52% and SIL declined by -0.94%   Today’s Gold  and Silver Stocks Winners: Today’s Gold and Silver Stocks Losers

A study on US Presidents and Gold from the Real Asset Co… Why voting Obama will mean higher gold prices Who will you vote for next week? Romney or Obama? Democrat or Republican? It’s not a great choice, we admit, but someone will have to win and one sure thing is it will either be … Continue reading