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Chalk up another QE2 success story! Wool prices – yes, wool – has hopped on board the commodity bull, riding to record-high prices. The Wisconsin Ag Connection reports: New record wool prices have been set this week, with unchanged supply and demand fundamentals continuing to support the market. Australian wool prices hit a 22-year record […]
I took my weimaraner for an extended walk this morning (Banjo was kind enough to oblige) so that I could take in a full segment from Jim Puplava’s weekly Financial Sense Newshour. This week, Jim talks with energy expert and entrepreneur Kirk Sorensen, who makes the case for little-known element thorium as the potential “silver […]
In late January, I wrote a guest article for Hard Assets Investor that profiled the recent breakout in uranium, and discussed potential ways to profit from the long side. Then on cue, Japan was rocked by an earthquake that caused the largest nuclear accident in recent memory, and the price of uranium crashed. Thus thrusting […]
Tomorrow, I’ll post some latest thoughts regarding inflation and deflation (thanks to reader Dave who rattled my cage on this). Here’s a small preview – when it comes to agriculture, the price trend looks destined to stay up, no matter what happens with the global economy. I’m attacking the agriculture investment story with renewed vigor. […]
When you get waxed 30% in a couple of weeks, what good news could there be? Here’s the bright-side – for the silver bulls that didn’t get margin called, you’ve seen solid support at the 50-day moving average (blue line below) over the past 24 months: Everytime silver has touched its 50-day MA over the […]
Beijing remains concerned about corn supplies, especially in the medium to long-term, the South China Morning Post reports, as China is becoming a big-time importer of corn: “China’s net import of corn could exceed 20 million tonnes in three years,” said Liu Xiaobo, a Shanghai-based food analyst from Everbright Securities. “Most of the corn imports […]
There’s nothing like a good old fashioned nuclear meltdown to get everyone dumping their uranium stocks! Industry staple Cameco has been pummeled since the hysterics began in Japan: Source: StockCharts.com And new uranium miner ETF URA found itself without any buyers…until it plummeted below $16: Source: StockCharts.com Does this blood in the streets constitute a buying […]
I saw a mini-contrarian signal for silver in today’s edition of Help a Reporter Out – an email publication devoted to connecting journalists with qualified sources. Not to pick on Bankrate.com in particular – but what the heck. When they are writing about an investment theme, we should probably cast a skeptical eye towards it… […]
Energy expert Matt Badiali writes in DailyWealth that plans out of China and India to create strategic oil reserves of their own could put a floor under the price of oil for years to come: China and India are faced with the same dilemma the U.S. faced in 1973. Neither country has enough petroleum to […]
Not too many places, as you can see at a glance: Today, as usual, most markets were highly correlated. (Source: Barchart.com) But a big tip of the cap to gold and silver, which each put in strong days – gold set a new all-time intraday high near open, while silver closed at a 31-year high. […]
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