March 8, 2010 · 6 comments
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With the US dollar increasingly perceived to be walking on shakier ground, and no significant signs in sight that the US will be able to pay off its debts without radical quantitative easing (i.e., effective devaluation of the dollar); continued unemployment levels near 10% and no short-term fix in the ongoing housing slump (more foreclosures [...]
December 29, 2009 · 6 comments
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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 [...]
November 27, 2009 · 8 comments
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A gold tsunami is at our doorstep. It’s not about a bubble, trade or even a wall of fear. It might be partly some of each of those things, but that’s because it’s much, much bigger than each of those things. And I’m no gold bug – nor do I keep a cabin hideaway full [...]
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
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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 all the attention is on gold investing and the boom in gold prices, you might also want to look elsewhere in the mining markets to expand the resource portion of your portfolio.
In this post I’ll give you a summary of some of Canada’s best diamond stocks – including information on Canada’s largest diamond mine [...]
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 [...]
