Rick Rule: Riding the Commodity Bull
Source: The Gold Report  (12/6/10)
Global Resource Investments Founder Rick Rule is always generous in sharing his wit and wisdom. In this Gold Report transcript of his Friday, Dec. 3 webcast, he covers a lot of territory and provides plenty of tips for investors as they face the extreme volatility he foresees. Despite the volatility, Rick believes the secular commodities bull market will continue its charge. Read on to find out what he says you need to stomach the highs and lows in this investment arena. More >

Gold Prices Rise on QE3 Talk
Source: The Street. Andrea Tse  (12/6/10)
"Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed would consider expanding QE." More >

Diamond Follows Gold in China, India
Source: Commodity Online  (12/6/10)
"India, China are the centers of the future diamond industry on all fronts." More >

Nepal Gold Markets Remain in Disarray
Source: Commodity Online  (12/6/10)
"Gold and silver imports stalled on commercial banks' delay in framing guidelines." More >

Silver Passes $30 for First Time Since 1980
Source: CNBC, Sharon Epperson  (12/6/10)
"Strong demand from momentum traders and retail investors lifted the metal." More >

ETF Securities' U.S. Palladium Holdings at Record
Source: Reuters, Jan Harvey and Jane Baird  (12/6/10)
"Total holdings are at around 13% of estimated annual net demand." More >

Speculators Return to Buying Gold, Silver
Source: Kitco, Debbie Carlson  (12/6/10)
"Speculators increased gross longs and cut gross shorts." More >

Yields: The Dominant Theme for 2011
Source: Clif Droke  (12/6/10)
"Momentum bull market in gold has been driven by something more than fear." More >

Will Year-End Tax-Loss Selling Impact Gold and Silver Investors?
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades  (12/6/10)
"Prices are reaching new highs, but can they be maintained?" More >

Inflation
Source: Anthony Stills, The Able Speculator  (12/6/10)
"Bernanke tells "60 Minutes" first two rounds of QE do not constitute printing." More >

Solving the Global Iron Ore Shortage
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (12/3/10)
If there is one thing UBS Securities' Dieter Hoeppli knows it's steel. As global head of steel, as well as metals and mining in the Americas for UBS, he's spent the last 20 years analyzing the steel business and acting as an advisor on countless mergers and takeover deals. He regularly travels the world and crunches numbers to determine what's going to grow and what's not. In this Gold Report exclusive, we take you inside the recent Forbes & Manhattan summit for some of Dieter's candid thoughts on the shortage of iron ore global steel manufacturers are now facing. More >

REEs from U308-Extraction Residual Liquid?
Source: Denki Shimbun  (12/3/10)
"Technology developed to recover REEs at uranium mines. . ." More >

Hong Kong Trio Arrested for US$11M Gold Theft
Source: Monsters and Critics  (12/3/10)
"The gold is worth HK$90 million in Hong Kong." More >

Global Gold Mining Trends
Source: Scott Wright, Zeal Research  (12/3/10)
"As investors, how do we play these global gold mining trends?" More >

Gold Breaks $1,400 on Payroll Data
Source: Bloomberg, Nicholas Larkin  (12/3/10)
"U.S. hiring trailed economists' forecasts, boosting demand for a protection of wealth." More >

Palladium Catalyst 'May Hold Key' to Efficiency
Source: Platinum Today  (12/2/10)
"The palladium complex 'solves half the problem' of methane-to-ethane conversion." More >

SA Down to 'Staggeringly Low' 500 Mining Engineers
Source: Mining Weekly, Martin Creamer  (12/2/10)
"There is a similar scarcity of middle managers." More >

Investment Demand Boosts Chinese Gold Imports Sixfold
Source: Reuters, Runjun Shen  (12/2/10)
"China imported 209.72 tons of gold in the first 10months of the year." More >

ETF Securities Starts Fund with Silver, Platinum, Palladium
Source: Bloomberg, Yi Tian  (12/2/10)
"The White Metals Basket ETF offers investors higher volatility." More >

Broad Market Reversal
Source: Chris Vermeulen, TheGoldAndOilGuy  (12/2/10)
"Better hold on to your hat!" More >

The Precious Metals Power Higher
Source: James Turk, Free Gold Money Report  (12/2/10)
"We can reasonably expect some more big moves higher. . ." More >

Northern Exposure
Source: David Coffin & Eric Coffin, HRA Advisories   (12/2/10)
"The new wave of gold exploration in the Yukon has serious legs." More >

Why Governments Will Buy Silver
Source: Sean Rakhimov, Silver Strategies  (12/2/10)
"We think the question should be 'When will governments buy silver?'" More >

REE Shortage Made Worse by Smuggling
Source: OilPrice, Chris Rhodes  (12/2/10)
"As much as 20,000 tons of REEs were smuggled out of China." More >

Decoupling!
Source: Anthony Stills, The Able Speculator  (12/1/10)
"The idea that gold can only move inversely to the greenback is a myth." More >