All year long, I’ve reported on the upward price movement of Arabica coffee beans, the high-quality beans used in gourmet coffees, like what you would find at your local Starbucks (SBUX). A drought in Brazil adversely affected this year’s coffee crop. The current weather may also affect next year’s crop, too, as this is a critical flowering…
In a recent article I wrote, “Gold and silver could gap higher by the end of 2014 and the top notch juniors could skyrocket.” I expected a breakout at $1205. It appears gold may be breaking that downtrend today. For a couple of years metals were knocked out of favor and now oil is on its knees…
Well, now that the title has hopefully gotten your attention I’d like to talk about the ‘d’ and ‘i’ words that so many financial types – myself included – throw around so often. This is due to a reader/subscriber KR’s aggravation at my use of the word deflation, which he had thought was meant sarcastically,…
“This is the contempt in which they hold the majority of American people and the political process: the common people are easily led fools, and everyone else who is smart enough to know better has their price. And they would beggar every middle class voter in the US before they will voluntarily give up one…
One of the newest small cap biotechs that I’ve added to the Small Cap Gems portfolio is Conatus Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: CNAT). This company is a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of novel medicines to treat liver disease. The stock has an approximately $120 million market capitalization and goes for just over $7.50 a…
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The long winter of falling uranium prices is about to give way to a Japanese spring. In an interview with The Mining Report, Cantor Fitzgerald’s Rob Chang discusses the return of the small producers as an increasingly hungry market looks to eat up all of the available uranium. Plus, Chang likes gold and enlightens us on how…
There can be little doubt that data releases rather than experience or intuition are driving the economic conversation. This is perhaps a function of the disconnection that many people feel about an economy that they no longer understand. Rather than trusting their own eyes or their own gut to form an opinion, it’s much easier…
Click on picture to enlarge When it comes to year to date or the past 90 days performance, the Shanghai Index is at the top of the list for both time frames! No doubt this index has been white hot of late! Even though the Shanghai has been screaming higher of late, the rally only…
Is the end of the super cycle in commodities in sight? It seems too soon to come out with a conclusion like that, although things were moving along swiftly over the past few days in a few markets. Oil and gold got the most attention, but many investors overlooked copper which dipped below 3 dollars….
