December 29, 2009 · 6 comments
in GoldMoney, US dollar, commodities, gold, hedging, international stock market, investing, market trends, metals, mining, precious metals, stocks, wealth protection
As I write this in late December 2009, gold sits at “only”! $1104/oz., when just about two weeks ago it was at its all-time secular high north of $1200. Many correctly called what seemed to be, at least in the short-term, a “gold bubble.”
But I don’t think it’s wise to write gold off completely. Gold [...]
There are not many large-cap or mid-cap mining companies that expressly focus on silver production alone. Much silver production comes about as a byproduct of gold mining. Thus it is likely that even strictly pure-gold producers will come up with some trace amounts of silver, too.
This post lists the large-cap Canadian companies that either declare [...]
November 19, 2009 · 2 comments
in Canadian, Canadian economy, S&P/TSX, TSX, commodities, energy, indexes, investing, metals, mining, resources, stock exchanges
If you’d like to make your own Canadian commodities ETF, or be more selective than iShares ETFs like XMA (Materials), then choose your stocks from this list of all the energy and materials stocks currently composing just over one third of the S&P/TSX 60, Canada’s large-cap index.
If you’re looking for Canada’s largest gold companies, Canada’s [...]
When it comes to metals investing, there are a few classifications you should know about. You’ve heard of the first – precious metals (or the noble metals): gold, silver, platinum and palladium. Then there are the “base metals:” copper, zinc, nickel, aluminum, etc. A lesser-discussed category is the group of fifteen to forty or so [...]
Diversified resource and mining companies might nominally mine for a single metal, but in the process will also unearth other base and rare metals. Other metals producers, like BHP Billiton, actively mine for a variety of base and precious metals.
The following list covers the top 8 diversified resource mining companies around the world. I also [...]
If the oil sands wreak environmental controversy in Canada’s west, uranium deposits and uranium production can fare no better. Regardless, uranium producers are in demand and there will be investors, just like you are probably already an unwitting investor in some rather more obvious and one-sided sin stocks through your employer’s pension plan [...]
Most analysts agree that a well-balanced portfolio should allot a certain amount, somewhere between 5-15%, to gold, depending on your outlook for the economy in the near, mid, and long-term future. One decision you need to make is how to allocate this portion amongst the several options for owning gold. You can invest in the [...]
