Streetwise Silver Articles
Silver and Gold Looking at Gains on Week
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault (2/24/12)
"Heading into the weekend, gold bullion at lunchtime Friday looked set for a weekly gain of over 3%, with silver looking at a gain of over 6% on last Friday's close."
India Predicted to Import More Silver in 2012
Source: Shivom Seth, Mineweb (2/23/12)
"Silver prices in India have more than doubled in the last two years. Despite the high prices, the consumption of the metal has been rising in India."
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Gold Steady After Yesterday's Big Rise
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault (2/22/12)
"Gold prices held steady just off $1,760/oz during Wednesday morning trading in London, after a rally in Tuesday's U.S. session saw gold climb 1.3%."
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Bailouts Benefitting Gold, Silver, Uranium and Rare Earth Miners
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades (2/21/12)
"We feel that it is only a matter of time before the precious metal miners themselves participate in reflecting the burgeoning mining bull market."
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Gold and Silver Stocks' Wild Ride Ahead: Greg McCoach
Source: Zig Lambo of The Gold Report (2/20/12)
Greg McCoach, publisher of The Mining Speculator, feels gold is ultimately headed above $6,000/oz and silver into the hundreds of dollars and those who aren't paying attention now are missing their best opportunity to buy before the frenzy begins in earnest. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he spells out the reasons for his optimistic projections and shares several of his favorite stories in the junior mining sector, which he believes is headed for much higher ground.
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Silver Could Double by Year-End
Source: Jason Hamlin, Gold Stock Bull (2/18/12)
"Once fear begins to subside, look for precious metals to come roaring back to new highs by midyear. Whenever the next financial crisis finally hits, we are likely to witness a new injection of quantitative easing that is even stronger than what transpired in 2008."
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Silver Eagles Soar
Source: Rick Mills,
Ahead of the Herd (2/17/12)
"Investors are currently risk averse and mining stocks are not well understood by the general investing public, but at least one thing is going to become very apparent to most: The best way to hedge yourself against inflation could be owning silver."
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Indian Silver Investment Surges
Source: Shivom Seth, Mineweb (2/3/12)
"Traders in India were betting big time on silver futures even as retail speculators have ensured that the white metal remains the highest traded commodity on the exchanges."
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Gold Has Foundation to Build Next Move Higher
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault (1/27/12)
"Wholesale market gold prices were headed for their biggest one-week rise since the start of December in London Friday, climbing back through $1,720/oz, a weekly gain of over 3%."
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Silver Price Forecast 2012: I Stand by $140/oz Silver
Source: Hubert Moolman (1/26/12)
"Market conditions often cause silver to fall behind gold for quite some time, whereafter silver normally catches up in a big way."
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When Will Silver Reach a New High?
Source: Andrey Dashkov, Big Gold (1/24/12)
"Silver is more volatile than gold. Already in this decade, silver has risen by a factor of 12 from its 10-year low ($48.70/oz vs. $4.07/oz), while gold has seen about a sevenfold climb ($255.95/oz vs. $1,895/oz)."
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Economic and Gold Stock 2012 Outlook
Source: Neil Charnock, GoldOz (1/13/12)
"As upheaval increases, the environment for gold improves. Then you have negative real interest rates. Inflation for energy and food combines with deflation to create stagflation. Negative real interest rates are great for gold."
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Why Silver For A Monetary Collapse?
Source: Hubert Moolman (1/11/12)
"The debt-based monetary system has created a 'mirror-effect,' whereby, silver (and gold) is pushed down in value and paper assets such as general stocks are pushed up in value."
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Platinum: Fire Sale on the Rich Man's Gold
Source: John Lee (12/28/11)
"Historically, the price of platinum runs in tandem with the precious metals group (gold, silver, platinum and palladium). However, as platinum is less liquid and has a smaller investor set, it is much more volatile both on the upside and downside compared to gold."
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Top 10 Commentaries of 2011
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors (12/28/11)
"This week I thought we'd take a moment to reflect on the eventful year it's been for natural resources."
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Why We Remain Bullish on Small Mining Shares
Source: Gene Arensberg, Resource Investor (12/22/11)
"'The little guys' have had little to be joyous about in 2011. That, of course, is definitely a reason for vulture speculators like me to be filled with jollity."
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Sprott's Call for Silver Producers to Hold Back Metal Strikes Chord
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report (12/21/11)
On November 30, Eric Sprott, chairman of Sprott Inc. and one of the largest holders of physical silver and silver equities globally, issued a call to action to 17 of the world's largest silver producers to limit the sale of the metal until prices increase. In this Gold Report exclusive, we asked the activist investor and insiders what impact such a declaration could make in one of the most volatile subsets of the resource sector.
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Investing vs. Speculating in Gold and Silver Stocks
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold (12/21/11)
"You cannot just sit in your juniors and think that they will be up 50-fold by the end of this bull market. After all, you should know by now that most juniors will fall and even fail in this historic bull market."
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Sprott's Call for Silver Reinvestment Could Lead to 70% Dividends
Source: Peter Krauth, Money Morning (12/19/11)
"If you ever see a silver or gold miner innovative enough to introduce a 'dividend in kind,' make sure you pay close attention. That company could well be worth its weight in gold. . .or silver."
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Bargain Time in Gold and Silver
Source: Jeb Handwerger (12/15/11)
"Precious metals and the miners are underperforming the U.S. dollar and long term treasuries and have made a bearish technical turn momentarily. However, our gold and silver selections are pulling back in a volatile correction and may soon be reaching support levels as silver and the miners test their 2011 low and gold pulls back to its July 2011 breakout after making record gains in both 2009 and 2010."
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Balancing Small Silver with Big Payoffs: David Morgan
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (12/14/11)
David Morgan, publisher of Silver Investor, likes the balanced risk and growth that midtier companies provide, but even he can't resist the pull of having a speculative pick pay off. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Morgan talks about the tenets he lives by when investing in mining companies, be they small-cap or midtier or billion dollar companies.
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Gold Could Correct Under $1,600/oz
Source: Nu Yu, Resource Investor (12/13/11)
"The time has come to re-reevaluate the fundamentals, reality and risks for gold and silver."
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Silver Investors: On the Horns of a Dilemma
Source: Lawrence Williams, Mineweb (12/2/11)
"Is silver in a surplus or a deficit? It depends on who you talk to as to what kind of answer you get and whether, in fact, a surplus is really a surplus or a deficit in disguise!"
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Peter Schiff's Urgent Update To Gold and Silver Investors
Source: Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul, ETF Daily News (12/2/11)
"'There's an old expression that nobody rings a bell when it's time to buy or sell. . .well, the world's central banks just rang a pretty loud bell to buy precious metals.'"
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Where is Support for Gold and Silver Stocks?
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT, The Daily Gold (11/29/11)
"Mining stocks are sitting pretty for savvy investors. . .we could be looking at a massive springboard into the next phase of the precious metals bull market."
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