2009 Precious Metals Performance: Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium
Precious metals delivered a strong performance during 2009 with strong returns across the major categories of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. Although gold seemed to dominate the attention of the mainstream press, the annual performance figures reveal that it was outperformed by other precious metals.
The table below displays the last price of 2008 from Kitco’s [...]
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Old-fashioned commodities; old-fashioned strength
Chris Mayer (Penny Sleuth):
“If you can tell me something else where the fundamentals are so attractive…I’d be happy to put my money there,” said Jim Rogers, the famed investor and self-made billionaire in a recent interview. “But I don’t know of any other place.”
What’s he talking about? Today, we take a look and invest right alongside his idea. And it should start to pay off with the arrival of the first swallows of spring in 2010. It’s also timely now — in this weak-kneed economy — because it has traditionally held up well even in when the economy is on the ropes. Even the Great Depression couldn’t put this thing down.
We start with simple truths. The world’s population has more…
Old-fashioned commodities; old-fashioned strength
Chris Mayer (Penny Sleuth):
“If you can tell me something else where the fundamentals are so attractive…I’d be happy to put my money there,” said Jim Rogers, the famed investor and self-made billionaire in a recent interview. “But I don’t know of any other place.”
What’s he talking about? Today, we take a look and invest right alongside his idea. And it should start to pay off with the arrival of the first swallows of spring in 2010. It’s also timely now — in this weak-kneed economy — because it has traditionally held up well even in when the economy is on the ropes. Even the Great Depression couldn’t put this thing down.
We start with simple truths. The world’s population has more…
Playing it safe had a down side
The Jubak’s Picks, my 12- to 18-month portfolio, returned 8.4% in the third quarter of 2009.
Is that good or bad?
It certainly badly lagged the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index, which returned 15.6% in the third quarter. It’s pretty easy to expl…
A Jobs Jamboree Friday!
The dollar remains well bid…G-7 to hand currencies off to G-20? Car Sales collapse…Auditing the Lehman cash movements…And Now… Today’s Pfennig!
Good day… And a Happy Friday to one and all! Yesterday, I welcomed you to October. I had been prepared to tell you about a famous radio station here in St. Louis, that has long called October… Rocktober… But forgot, as usual! But anyway… It’s the first Fantastico Friday of Rocktober!
Today is a Jobs Jamboree Friday too! And… I’m not getting a good feeling about today’s labor report at the Jobs Jamboree. The forecast is for jobs losses to fall from -216,000 to -175,000, but the unemployment rate to tick up to 9.8% from 9.7%… I got the feeling, baby,…
Natural Gas’ Triple Could Give Us a 416% Gain by Year-End
The past 18 months have taken a serious toll on normal supply and demand in many industries. But no industry was impacted more than energy…
Oil peaked at $147 per barrel in July 2008 — right before the house of cards came crashing down on the global economy. Once banks started to fail and credit dried up, other businesses slowed production and laid off workers. This created a massive trickle effect on the overall economy.
Big corporations and individual consumers alike were using less energy. That meant the prices of every energy-related commodity plummeted.
This spring, things started to turn around… The unemployment rate quit falling at such a rapid rate. Inventories were too low in many industries, creating a ramp up in…
China’s buying spree slows
As I wrote earlier today, I think the short-term commodities cycle has turned. China’s buying spree, which fueled a furious commodity rally in the last six months, is, if not over, slowing. China’s buying in the second half of the year is likely to be …
Oops, Did I Say That Out Loud?
A Wild and Wacky Wednesday…FOMC leave stimulus and QE in place…Will G-20 try to throw cold water on commodities? GATA receives a letter from the Fed…And Now… Today’s Pfennig
Good day… And a Thunderin’ Thursday to you! It’s Thundering and raining here, so I felt that naming today a “Thunderin’ Thursday” was bang on! We had a wild and wacky Wednesday yesterday, with the Fed Heads playing the part of the court jester… And… I want to know, right here, right now, why the media isn’t blasting Fed Head Honcho Big Ben Bernanke! I’ll tell you why they should be, in a minute…
OK… As I said, we had a wild and wacky Wednesday yesterday, as the non-dollar currencies went for a…
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Why Trading Forex Now Beats The Stock Market
Today’s post is from an old friend, frequent blogger (see previous posts), and trading expert Bill Poulos from Profits Run. With Bill focusing a ton of his time on Forex, and with the Forex market getting so much attention, I wanted to ask Bill to come and give us some of his latest insights into [...]
A Jobs Jamboree Friday!
Currencies trade in a tight range… G-20 to shun an exit from stimulus? Gold and Silver and Oil… A new trend? Loonies follow the commodities higher… And Now… Today’s Pfennig!
Good day… And a Happy Friday to one and all! Well… Once again, my day didn’t turn out exactly as planned, but as they say… A bad day at the ballpark is better than a good day and then you plug in the place… It could be work… It could be cutting the grass… Etc..
OK… I heard a great song on the radio this morning on my way to work… And I said to myself… Chuck, now that’s a great song to start a day with, that everyone should hear each day! It’s a song…
Chart Pattern Recognition a Third Grader Could Do
Don’t let the title fool you, chart pattern recognition is a difficult skill to learn, and even hard to master. Today’s post comes to us from Amey from TheWildInvestor.com, and it’s a good one! Please enjoy, comment, and enjoy the day.
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I like to keep things simple, and that definitely holds true in the world of [...]