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| WEEKLY NEWS EDITORIALS |
By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
These are boom times for Vancouver-headquartered New Gold Inc. (TSX: NGD (NYSE-AMEX: NGD). Indeed, this emerging mid-tier gold producer has gone from strength to strength over the last couple of years.
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Peter Krauth, Money Morning
And China will play a huge role in doing so.
The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable American icons in the world.
And as she towers 305 feet above Ellis Island, what's Lady Liberty wearing? Copper - 60,000 pounds of it.
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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
The race to build up Canada’s potash supplies to keep pace with burgeoning global demand is turning Saskatchewan’s tiny handful of junior potash explorers into ripe plums for the picking.
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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
As the gold market continues its lustrous trend, the corporate elbowing and shoving to get at the richest buried treasures is getting increasingly cutthroat. A prime example involves northern Chile’s clutch of mostly prolifically sized gold/copper deposits.
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by Mary Anne & Pamela Aden
Happy New Year. The year is drawing to a close. And what a year it’s been, filled with twists and turns, some surprises, thrills, excitement, history and some disappointments too, all topped off with gold skyrocketing in its biggest monthly rise in a decade.
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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca
With bullion prices at all-time highs and world-class gold discoveries becoming ever more elusive, the investment industry is gambling increasingly sizeable sums of money on major mines-in-the-making.
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by Marc Davis, BNWNews.ca
Silver may yet outshine gold in 2010 as spot prices for the white metal respond to the prospect of a surge in industrial demand. With a little additional help from investment demand, silver may even rally into the $25 an ounce range
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by Marc Davis, BNWNews
As the world’s key gold producing nations struggle mostly in vain to replenish dwindling below-ground supplies, Mexico is bucking the trend in a big way.
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By Marc Davis, BNW News
Gold prices will surge to unprecedented new highs in the event of a military showdown between Western powers and Iran. This is the consensus among various leading investment industry forecasters.
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by Marc Davis, BNWNews
Only a tiny handful of huge gold discoveries have been made worldwide in the last decade, which experts say is because virtually all the juiciest low-hanging fruit has been picked some time ago. And this new reality promises to help edge bullion prices increasingly higher.
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By The Economist
A weak dollar explains gold’s rise.
Gold fascinates investors. The latest surge in bullion—nominal prices this week topped $1,050 an ounce, a record—has generated headlines that would not have been seen if nickel had reached a new peak.
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by Marc Davis, BNWNews
Gold will soon become the next global asset bubble now that pivotal global economic events are finally converging to propel its ascent into record territory. This is the most recent consensus shared by many key business leaders who have the most at stake.
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by Marc Davis, BNWNews
Gold will soon become the next global asset bubble now that pivotal global economic events are finally converging to propel its ascent into record territory. This is the most recent consensus shared by many key business leaders who have the most at stake.
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By Peter Schiff
Like a battering ram in a medieval siege, gold keeps hammering away at the gate. For the third time in less than twelve months, the yellow metal is once again crashing into the $1,000 per ounce level.
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by Frank Holmes
We’re heading into September next week, so it’s a good time to revisit the historic seasonality of gold and gold stocks.
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by Mary Anne & Pamela Aden
The commodity market is bubbling. Whether it be sugar reaching a three year high, copper and other base metals reaching almost one year highs, or oil and gold rising further. The markets are looking good.
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By John Browne
In economics, as in many other “soft sciences,” facts are often overshadowed by theories. The dominant economic theory currently in vogue is that the massive government stimuli orchestrated by the Bush and Obama administrations would produce an economic recovery by the end of this year.
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By Merk Hard Currency Fund
Inflation is dead – long live inflation! We hear about the threat of hyperinflation in the media – is this for real, can it happen in the U.S.?
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By Marc Davis of BNW News
Gold prices are poised for a “spectacular” and prolonged rally as the recession deepens and investors finally become disillusioned with the U.S. dollar.
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By Marc Davis
BNW Business News
The dominance of Canada’s high-powered cartel of three major potash producers may come to an end if a couple of small but well-financed potash exploration upstarts continue their winning ways.
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By Marc Davis of BNW News
Something wicked this way comes! So, be afraid. Be very afraid.
(Unless you’re a gold bug).The recent rally in American and Canadian equity markets is soon to give way to a gut-wrenching collapse that will push equities to shocking new lows, with gold prices reacting by rallying to new highs.
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By Marc Davis of BNW News
A continued global economic tsunami and the increasingly urgent scramble for an investment lifeline will combine to power gold prices ominously higher and into uncharted territory later this year.
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March 19, 2010 | NPR· During the peak of the housing market, the value of the mortgages that got stuffed into those complicated mortgage bonds known as toxic assets was more than $3 trillion. But now the market has stalled, in part because many sellers are waiting for the economy to improve. March 19, 2010 | NPR· The South by Southwest music festival bills itself as "the premier destination for discovery." It's also the destination for truckloads of cash, as music and art fans flock to Austin, Texas, each March. Last year's event brought nearly $100 million to the city, according to one analyst. March 18, 2010 | NPR· The town council in Yuma, Colo., recently passed a unanimous resolution asking Congress and the president to resolve the immigration system. Businesses in Yuma are worried they could lose their workforces if there are immigration raids. March 18, 2010 | NPR· With the cap-and-trade legislation aimed at curbing global warming stalled in Congress, there's an almost-complete collapse of the market for carbon credits. That means profits are drying up for people who are paid to create those carbon credits — like farmers who manage their land in ways that capture carbon dioxide in the soil. March 18, 2010 | NPR· Detroit is expected to shut the doors of 44 of its 172 public schools as the district struggles with declining enrollment and a budget deficit of $219 million. Host Michel Martin speaks with Robert Bobb, the district's emergency financial manager. March 18, 2010 | NPR· In a notable turnaround, the International Monetary Fund recently acknowledged that some developing countries might benefit from controls on capital inflows. IMF research found that countries with such regulations were better equipped to weather recent global economic crises. March 18, 2010 | NPR· A new study finds that the number of people in multigenerational households grew by 2.6 million between 2007 and 2008. The trend is fueled by young adults, but older adults are also slightly more likely to share households. Another factor is the increasingly large share of immigrants living in the U.S. March 17, 2010 | NPR· Three of President Obama's leading economic advisers were on Capitol Hill to answer questions about a variety of economic issues Tuesday. They warned that U.S. companies are unlikely to hire enough workers to bring down the unemployed rate much this year. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Oh) accused the administration of not taking the unemployment problem seriously enough. March 16, 2010 | NPR· The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says challenges remain in the banking sector, but the number of banks affected is a small portion of institutions overall. Sheila Bair also says that smaller banks are doing a better job of lending than larger ones. March 16, 2010 | NPR· The Federal Reserve decided to keep its benchmark interest rate near zero, reinforcing a commitment that rates should stay "exceptionally low" as the economy emerges from recession. Officials said high unemployment and low inflation were at the crux of the decision. |
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