The Gold Report

The Sun Rises on the Precious Metals Sector
Source: Clive Maund for The Gold Report  (6/5/17)
A bull market is incubating in the precious metals section, and technical analyst Clive Maund has charted trends that investors should be watching.
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Compared to Silver and Platinum, Gold Is Getting Really Expensive
Source: Bob Moriarty for The Gold Report  (5/4/17)
Investors can make money in precious metals without predicting the direction of prices, says Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold, by paying attention to the gold-platinum and gold-silver spreads. More >

Investors Are Becoming Bullish on Commodities
Source: The Gold Report  (3/7/17)
Investors are increasingly turning to commodities as prices rally. More >

Oil Market Update: You Won't Get a Clearer Warning Than This One
Source: Clive Maund for The Energy Report  (3/3/17)
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts changes that portend a "brutal decline" in both the oil and precious metals markets.
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The Silver Lining of the 'Violent, Stunning, Historic Collapse of Palladium' and How to Profit from It
Source: Chen Lin for The Gold Report  (1/27/17)
Palladium took a dive this week, and Chen Lin, author of the popular newsletter What Is Chen Buying, What Is Chen Selling?, explains what happened and how investors can profit from the drop. More >

Major Royalty Companies Are Good Buys Now
Source: Adrian Day for The Gold Report  (12/5/16)
Adrian Day reviews recent results at some of his favorite gold and silver royalty and streaming companies and asserts that they represent, as a group, the lowest risk way to gain exposure to the sector. More >

A 'Wicked Rally' in Gold Predicted
Source: Michael Ballanger for The Gold Report  (11/29/16)
Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger charts recent moves in the gold market and sees a rally in the making.
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Osisko Gold Royalties Tracks Gold
Source: Bob Moriarty for The Gold Report  (11/29/16)
Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold discusses recent precious metal price movements and Osisko Gold Royalties' leverage to the gold price. More >

Precious Metals Stocks May Be Poised for a Major Upswing
Source: Clive Maund for The Gold Report  (10/31/16)
Technical analyst Clive Maund outlines why he believes the correction in gold and precious metals stocks is coming to an end.

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New CUSIPS Remove Barriers for Traders in Physical Precious Metals
Source: The Gold Report  (10/6/16)
By assigning CUSIP numbers to physical precious metal assets, including gold and silver bar bullion, Delaware Depository and CUSIP Global Services have made it easier for investors to trade and track the commodities on traditional platforms. More >

The CME Read My Book
Source: Bob Moriarty for The Gold Report  (9/15/16)
Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold discusses the benefits of trading on the gold/silver ratio and gold/platinum spread, and the new contracts the CME is launching next month. More >

If You Want to Own Only Two Gold Stocks, Buy These
Source: Adrian Day  (9/9/16)
The year's strong performance of most gold stocks has left newcomers wondering what to buy, says money manager Adrian Day. In such circumstances, he believes investors are better off paying up for quality than looking for something "cheap" down the food chain. Day reviews two favorite gold companies, one large, one small, that he says give broad exposure to the sector. More >

The Precious Metals Sector and the Fed. . .
Source: Clive Maund for The Gold Report  (8/26/16)
Technical analyst Clive Maund reflects on how Federal Reserve statements may affect markets, and explains why he thinks the precious metals markets are due for a correction. More >

Is It Time to Dump Gold and Buy Platinum?
Source: Bob Moriarty  (6/20/16)
Bob Moriarty explains why precious metals investors may want to look beyond gold to a commodity with a long history and an interesting relationship to the yellow metal. More >

Five Junior Mining Companies Creating Value Through Exploration
Source: Special to The Gold Report  (6/9/16)
The drill bit is essential to junior mining companies. Only through active exploration can investors separate the companies with potential from those without. Mick Carew of Haywood Securities discusses five companies on track to create value through the drill bit. More >

How Investors at the California Capital Conference Picked the Next Top Small-Cap Companies
Source: Staff of The Gold Report  (12/7/15)
If only someone could bottle the experience of finding an overlooked company, investing for pennies a share and cashing in for 10, 20 or 30 times what you paid. Priceless, right? But how to find those companies? Small caps aren't covered by the mainstream press and analysts the way blue chips are, and determining value of an early-stage company before profit and loss statements take on real meaning and big questions about science and markets are answered can be difficult. That is why veteran investors like Tom Swaney, president of California-based Harwood Capital Inc., like to meet management in person at events like the California Capital Conference. More >

Four Reasons Investment Strategist Joe McAlinden Likes Hard Assets, Especially Gold
Source: Special to The Gold Report  (11/2/15)
In September, former Morgan Stanley Investment Management Chief Global Strategist Joe McAlinden announced in an interview with The Gold Report that he had reversed his view on commodities. In this interview, he predicts that the gold price could double in the next two year and envisions even more upside for the mining equities. More >

Andrew Pullar's Plan: Go Long, Set Goals with World-Class Assets
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (10/5/15)
Andrew Pullar, CEO of The Sentient Group, a private equity fund, says his plan for investment success is all about identifying companies with long-life, low-cost, world-class assets and supporting them through to production. In this interview with The Gold Report, Pullar plots the course for a handful of what he believes are world-class mining assets. More >

Survival Secrets from Colorado Resource Investing Front Lines
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (10/1/15)
Top experts and select companies traveled to Colorado last week for a pair of conferences focused on the survivors in the natural resource mining sector. The Gold Report reached out to some of the discerning voices there and asked whether the barrage of headlines from the Federal Reserve and China impacted the mood, and what companies they would be following up on when they returned to their offices. While the Precious Metals Summit was geared toward development-stage companies and the Denver Gold Forum was mostly populated by large, producing mining companies, everyone seemed fixated on survival. For those of us watching from home, experts we talked to were kind enough to name some of the standout companies they saw in boothland. More >

Why a Fed Rate Hike Could Be a Blessing for Gold Prices: Brien Lundin
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (8/27/15)
Like a true contrarian, Gold Newsletter publisher Brien Lundin looks beyond the headlines to understand what is really moving precious metals prices. He has concluded that the mainstream media may have it all wrong. Suspected anchors on the gold price, such as an interest rate increase and devaluation of the yuan, could actually be a rallying cry for commodities, he says in this interview with The Gold Report. And, he points to a baker's dozen of companies poised to take off when the arrows turn. More >

Haywood's Mick Carew Explains Why Now Is an 'Opportune Time for Consolidation' in the Mining Space
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (8/24/15)
Mick Carew, a research analyst with Haywood Securities, hopes we have found the bottom of the commodity cycle but expects M&A activity to continue apace through the rest of this year and into 2016 as low metals prices force the hands of underfunded management teams. Carew says M&A is commonly viewed as a potential indicator of a swing in market sentiment, and in this interview with The Gold Report, he discusses a handful of his favorite names, some of which could become M&A targets. More >

David Smith: Love and Fear Trade Buying Will Drive Metals, and These Miners Higher. . .This Year!
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (4/1/15)
Despite their recent underperformance, David H. Smith, Senior Analyst with The Morgan Report, remains bullish on precious metals, especially silver and palladium, as the "love trade" heats up and the global economy adds more debt to the system. Smith believes that the secular bull run in precious metals will be reignited later this year and that investors should take advantage of the regular volatility native to silver prices. In this interview with The Gold Report, Smith provides some of the silver and platinum group metals equity names he owns and that could offer significant upside, even from current prices. More >

A Fickle Exploration Ranking
Source: Kip Keen, Mineweb  (3/2/15)
"If we're getting a perspective on exploration potential in a more perfect world without major obstacles to prospecting (like war and drug runners), it's one polluted by erratic confidences." More >

PDAC Kicks off with Bold Predictions
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (3/2/15)
The annual conference of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) is under way in Toronto and the mood on the floor and in the Investors Exchange is, as one might expect, cautiously hopeful, even if about a dozen booth spaces are unoccupied. More >

What's in a Global Mining ETF?
Source: Kip Keen, Mineweb  (2/26/15)
"The group's fortunes are tightly tied to the balance between metal supply and demand." More >