You’ve got to love this guy, Hugo Chavez. The President of Venezuela had already nationalized the banks and the oil industry. Now he’s going after the gold. Chavez took to state television yesterday to tell his people that the gold industry is “run by the mafia,” so “We’re going to nationalize gold. We can’t keep …
The spot price of gold is now well above $1,800 an ounce and gold stocks are reaping the benefits. Right now, the stock market is experiencing a crisis of confidence—not in the ability of corporations to generate earnings, but in the macro sense of country economies, debt and deficits. The global debt crisis is just …
Thank goodness for the spot price of gold. This is the one sector of the stock market (and global economy) that’s flourishing within all the turmoil. Not only are the fundamentals for gold very strong, but they are actually improving, as price inflation is going up in the world’s biggest economies. For risk-capital traders, the …
There are two schools of thought existing today in respect to where prices for goods are headed. There is the group that believes the U.S. is following the same path as Japan in the 1990s and is headed to a decade of deflation. Then there’s the second group that believes that rapid inflation is more …
I think investors really want to be buyers of stock at this time, but there isn’t much of a catalyst to do so. Institutional investors are buying, but they’re also playing on the market’s volatility, accentuating the results. Reality is beginning to set in now and there’s a realization that corporate earnings are actually going …
Forty years ago today, U.S. President Richard Nixon appeared on television to tell the world that the U.S.was severing the relationship between gold bullion and the U.S. dollar. Back in 1944, in a historic agreement reached in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, the U.S. government agreed to redeem U.S. dollars for gold bullion at the rate …
I think investors really want to be buyers of stock at this time, but there isn’t much of a catalyst to do so. Institutional investors are buying, but they’re also playing on the market’s volatility, accentuating the results. Reality is beginning to set in now and there’s a realization that corporate earnings are actually going …
If this is the decade of the commodity, then the single most attractive area for equity speculators remains the gold-mining business. The entire industry is swimming in cash, while spot prices and physical demand for precious metals remain strong. Gold, silver and copper have been holding up exceedingly well, as the rest of the stock …
Stock market guru Michael Lombardi predicts something big will happen in America within the next 180 days. He predicts it will be more devastating than the credit crisis of 2008. For most people, it will hit them like a brick wall. He believes it will touch Americans harder and deeper than anything else we’ve seen …
I think it’s probable that the stock market will continue to convulse for the rest of the third quarter and into the fourth. The trend in economic news is down and so is investor sentiment. We still have a lot of problems with sovereign debt issues in Europe and this is an investment risk that …