Streetwise Silver Articles
Infographic: Silver Is the New Gold
Source: Silver Doctors (10/10/12)
"Silver's supply/demand fundamentals have propelled the metal to nearly 700% returns since 2000. See what's ahead in the next decade."
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Gold and Silver Will Soon Line Investors' Pockets: Jordan Roy-Byrne
Source: Zig Lambo of The Gold Report (10/8/12)
Even though the mining equity markets have been choppy and mostly sideways this year, Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT and editor of The Daily Gold Premium newsletter, has managed to produce some enviable returns in his model portfolio. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he tells us why he's now turning his attention to silver, which he expects will provide some exciting returns for producers and investors. He talks about some of his favorite names and how companies with cash and cash flow will be able to scoop up some great property deals from less-fortunate juniors.
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Fed QE and Gold, Silver
Source: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Research (10/8/12)
"Throughout history, gold and silver have maintained their real purchasing power as money-supply growth lifted prices all around them. They are like battleships on the seas—no matter how high the ocean of paper currencies under them rises, they still float commandingly on top."
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The Solar Silver Thrust
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey Research (10/5/12)
"In early July, Japan announced that utility companies would be paid three times more for electricity sourced from solar. It's widely expected that the premium will ignite the use of solar power—and solar uses a lot of silver."
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Silver Prices to Benefit from the Golden Cross
Source: Bob Kirtley, SK Options Trading (10/2/12)
"We expect silver prices to continue in this multiyear bull market for precious metals and to set new all-time highs in the near to medium term."
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Indonesia Digs Hole for Itself with New Mining Laws
Source: Reuters, Fergus Jensen and Neil Chatterjee (10/1/12)
"The most dramatic effect of the new rules has been on mineral exports, which surged as companies fought to beat a May 6 export tax deadline and plunged thereafter."
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Play Rising Silver Prices with These ETFs
Source: Deborah Baratz, Money Morning (9/28/12)
"Silver ETFs outperformed gold ETFs, despite investors usually preferring the yellow metal."
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A Good ETF to Play Silver Miners
Source: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence (9/28/12)
"There's a product that has come to market recently that does offer investors some semblance of sector-level performance for silver stocks: the Global X Silver Miners ETF (SIL)."
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Silver Prices: Much More to This Rise Than a QE3 Rally
Source: Deborah Baratz, Money Morning (9/26/12)
"Here's why the silver bull party is still going strong. . ."
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Speculators Continue to Buy Precious Metals Futures, Options
Source: Kitco, Debbie Carlson (9/24/12)
"For the week ended Sept. 18, speculators in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's weekly commitment of traders report saw their net-long positions in precious metals rise in both the legacy and disaggregated reports."
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Gold-Silver Ratio Declining As US Dollar Collapses
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades (9/21/12)
"Silver has been outperforming gold over the past 10 weeks as investors are hoarding poor man's gold to hedge against worldwide quantitative easing."
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Very Bullish Long-Term Outlook for Silver Stocks
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold (9/19/12)
"The long-term technical outlook for silver producers is potentially nothing short of super bullish."
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Is Silver Fast on Its Way to $50/oz?
Source: Hubert Moolman (9/17/12)
"If silver continues to follow the pattern that gold formed, then we can expect a massive spike toward $50/oz and beyond, very soon."
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Five Must-Haves for Junior Mining Companies: Aleksandra Bukacheva
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (9/14/12)
Valuation disconnects among producers, rising gold price and juniors facing funding crunches are among the factors fueling a spate of M&A activity. In her first exclusive Gold Report interview, Aleksandra (Sasha) Bukacheva, a mining research analyst with Fraser Mackenzie in Toronto, shares her list of likely targets and suitors in the zinc, copper and precious metals spaces.
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Miners Catching Up to Metals; Huge Run Coming?
Source: ETF Daily News, John Rubino (9/14/12)
"The big miners, represented by the gold miner ETF GDX, have outperformed gold itself since July."
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Investing in Silver: Price Rally Gets Legs
Source: Deborah Baratz, Money Morning (9/14/12)
"Silver's recent volatility, which is always higher than its fellow precious metal, gold, is a reason for its outperformance. The price ratio between the two precious metals since mid-August has moved about 10% in silver's favor."
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Bonanza Discoveries That Will Drive Gold Stocks: Eric Coffin
Source: Peter Byrne of The Gold Report (9/12/12)
New deposits and economic triggers will drive gold stocks, says Eric Coffin, the editor of HRA Journal. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Coffin identifies the management characteristics of gold juniors that make money for investors. A successful gold explorer in his own right, Coffin names his picks from the Yukon to the Caribbean.
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Why Are the Silver Miners Outperforming?
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades (9/11/12)
"We have seen significant developments in the silver mining sector that shows that the majors are hungry for the juniors."
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Silver at Multi-Month High
Source: Chris Vermeulen, The Gold and Oil Guy (9/10/12)
"Historically, gold has been worth about 12 to 15 times what silver is worth, but recently it has been worth roughly 50 times silver's value."
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The Great Silver Chart
Source: Hubert Moolman (9/10/12)
"Based on the fractals on the chart, we could still have about two years before we could get a top like we had in 1980."
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Insider Secrets for Finding Winning Colombia Juniors
Source: Sally Lowder of The Gold Report (9/5/12)
Living in Colombia gives Paul Harris, publisher of the Colombia Gold Letter, invaluable first-hand knowledge of the exploration scene there. On a macro level, mining development in Colombia will create opportunities for massive wealth generation for company shareholders, for local communities and for the government and could move Colombia into the ranks of the developed nations. On a micro level, junior explorers still have to navigate through an as-yet-untested permitting process. Once the first junior does that, Harris sees the floodgates opening up. Read more in this exclusive Gold Report interview.
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Investing in Silver: Double Down on the White Metal's Gains
Source: Don Miller, Money Morning (9/5/12)
"Thanks to wildly bullish technical and fundamental indicators, silver could soon retest its 2011 high, or even blow through it."
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Invest in Silver Before Prices Climb Higher
Source: Deborah Baratz, Money Morning (9/4/12)
"For silver investors, news of stimulus measures would be just the bounce they need."
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What to Do When, Not If, Inflation Gets Out of Hand
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey Research (9/4/12)
"Are you prepared to handle high inflation for a sustained period of time?"
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Prepare for Fireworks in the Gold and Silver Sector
Source: Bob Kirtley, SK Options Trading (8/30/12)
"We can only conclude that although all eyes are focused on the Fed, there are other factors in play that will drive gold prices higher and we are quietly confident that a new all-time high of around $2,000/oz will be achieved by New Year's Eve."
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