China Unlikely to Buy IMF Gold-WGC
Source: Mineweb, Lawrence Williams  (2/23/10)
". . .China is actually 'not a realistic candidate' to buy all, or any, of the IMF's remaining gold" More >

Copper Price Predictions: 2010
Source: MetalMiner, Stuart Burns  (2/23/10)
"China's. . .restocking is now over and real consumption is coming to the fore" More >

S. Africa Concludes Audit of State Mining Assets
Source: Reuters  (2/23/10)
"DMR is preparing a proposition. . .to consolidate all state mining assets into one vehicle" More >

Cash-for-Gold Not a Market Top Signal
Source: GoldSeek, Peter Cooper  (2/23/10)
"Buying gold now clearly makes sense as the mug-punters are still sellers." More >

The Perma-Gold Bears Hitting New Lows
Source: Agoracom, Peter Grandich  (2/23/10)
"The anti-gold crowd calls anyone who shows even the littlest love for it 'goldbugs'" More >

Silver Miners Making News
Source: Silver Investing News, Melissa Pistilli  (2/23/10)
"I think silver will outperform [gold] simply because it is a much smaller market. . ." More >

Economic Recovery and the Price of Gold
Source: Clif Droke  (2/22/10)
Just a month ago, a leading financial publication came out with the story, "U.S. economy still hemorrhaging jobs despite stimulus." Based on the employment data, the press concluded the stimulus had utterly failed. They were of course making the classic mistake of treating employment numbers as coincident indicators, when in fact employment is the ultimate lagging indicator. More >

Ian Gordon: Ignore the Illusion of Spring
Source: Interviewed by Karen Roche, Publisher, The Gold Report  (2/22/10)
Never mind that fruit trees are blossoming all over the Northern Hemisphere. A whopper of a winter in the Kondratieff cycle is far from over. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, the Longwave Group's Ian Gordon delves into the dreary outlook, brightened only by gleaming opportunities in precious metals equities. More >

The Dollar and Gold—What's Next?
Source: Chris Vermeulen, TheGoldAndOilGuy  (2/22/10)
Last week was strong with stocks and commodities moving up sharply. As nice as it was to see a rally, I still have my doubts whether this move has legs behind it. . . More >

Peak Gold Theory Gains Impressive Adherents
Source: Mineweb, Dorothy Kosich  (2/22/10)
". . .this is an argument investors really should take seriously." More >

Firm Dollar Fails to Spook Gold
Source: GoldSeek, Rick Ackerman  (2/22/10)
"If that's as bad as it gets, it should put no great strain on the nerves of gold investors. . ." More >

South Carolina Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Federal Currency
Source: CBS News  (2/22/10)
"federal currency. . .'paper with ink on it'" More >

Gold Dips as Dollar Recovers, Risk Appetite Eases
Source: Reuters  (2/22/10)
". . .the dollar hit a session high against the euro amid renewed worries about Greek debt" More >

Government Stimulus, One Year Later
Source: Safe Haven, Ron Paul  (2/22/10)
". . .this legislation is accomplishing exactly what it was intended to accomplish—grow the government" More >

Calm in the Face of Fiscal Insanity
Source: GoldSeek, The Mogambo Guru  (2/21/10)
". . .what would you do?" More >

Announcement of IMF's Sale of 191.3 Tons of Gold—What Does It Really Mean?
Source: Julian D. W. Phillips, GoldForecaster.com  (2/20/10)
After India purchased 200 tons of gold from the IMF, the IMF announced that any further sales would be announced to the public. . It has been several months since another sale has taken place. Now with this announcement, we are given the impression that central banks have not come forward to buy and are not buyers. Talk about 'spin'! More >

CFTC Admits Hiding Info Exposing Market Manipulation
Source: GATA, Adrian Douglas  (2/20/10)
". . .since November 2009, the CFTC has stopped listing the number of banks that hold positions in silver. . ." More >

Lawrence Roulston: Yesteryear's Castoffs, Tomorrow's Treasures
Source: Interviewed by Karen Roche, Publisher, The Gold Report  (2/19/10)
Resource companies that discover and develop deposits come with enormous upside potential, but lucrative finds prove few and far between. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, Resource Opportunities editor and publisher Lawrence Roulston talks about his strategy for finding large gains without taking on discovery risk. He also weighs in on China's importance in the mining and metals space, and talks about some prospective properties in the emerging metals areas of Guyana and the Philippines. More >

Gold Futures Moderate Losses After CPI
Source: MarketWatch, Myra P. Saefong and Kate Gibson  (2/19/10)
"The IMF sales. . .have become almost non-factors." More >

Silver Caught in Gold/Dollar Play
Source: Commodity Online  (2/19/10)
". . .expect silver prices to be extremely volatile on the ebbs and flows of positive and negative [recovery] data." More >

Spot Gold Extends Its Recovery, Approaches $1,120
Source: FXstreet  (2/19/10)
"Gold managed to hold above Thursday's lows and the highly psychological $1,100/oz despite USD strength" More >

Stock Market Trends for Indexes and Precious Metals
Source: Chris Vermeulen, TheGoldAndOilGuy  (2/18/10)
Since mid-October I have been on the lookout for the market to top or make a multi-wave correction. The market did top in January and has formed an ABC retrace (3 wave correction). The question everyone wants to know: is this market topping out or just a bull market correction? More >

FRONTLINE: The Warning
Source: GoldSeek, Frontline  (2/18/10)
"Larry Summers. . . says, 'You're going to cause the worst financial crisis since the end of World War II.'" More >

George Soros Doubles Gold Investment
Source: BBC  (2/18/10)
"Soros said that when he sees a bubble, 'I rush out and buy.'" More >

The 13-Year Gold Bull Has Much More Room To Run
Source: David Banister, Active Trading Partners  (2/18/10)
The recent technical move up in gold only confirms that we are in the final five-year window, in my opinion, where the investing public becomes "aware" that gold is real money More >