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 >

1001 Reasons to Own Gold
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey's Gold & Resource Report  (2/18/10)
Tracking the numerous ongoing bullish factors for gold is quite a chore. There are, quite literally, so many compelling arguments for holding our favorite metal that I used to catalog them each month in our letter. More >

Gold Analysis and Price Trend Forecast for 2010
Source: Nadeem Walayat, Market Oracle  (2/18/10)
The Inflation mega-trend continues to manifest itself, this was no better illustrated than this week's UK inflation data, which shows that CPI has doubled from 1.9% to 3.5% in just two months! More >

IMF Gold Sales, Fed Rate Hike, China, Soros and Inflation
Source: Jason Hamlin, Gold Stock Bull  (2/18/10)
Investors completely shrugged off news of the IMF gold sales as the price advanced $20 following the announcement. There are questions as to whether the IMF actually has physical gold to sell and there is historic correlation of gold going up after such announcements. . . More >

Gold May Move to $1,400 in 12 Months: Technical Analysis
Source: Bloomberg, Nicholas Larkin  (2/18/10)
"We project about $1,400 within 12 months as long as the $1,000 level holds ." More >

Weekly Metals Report: Extreme Resiliency
Source: Resource Investor, Mike Daly  (2/18/10)
"The resiliency of the precious metals is real." More >

Clive Maund: Unlock Profits with Technical Analysis
Source: Interviewed by Karen Roche, Publisher, The Gold Report  (2/17/10)
Which camp are you in, inflation or deflation? While Mr. Market labors under the pressures of both and the burgeoning weight of artificial stimuli, Clive Maund, a 30-year veteran of technical analysis, is positioning himself for gains either way. In this enlightening interview with The Gold Report, Clive extols the virtues of the age-old practice as a reliable predictor of future stock price movement in any economic environment.
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Gold Jumps Most Since November
Source: Bloomberg, Pham-Duy Nguyen and Nicholas Larkin  (2/17/10)
". . .speculation that Greek debt concerns will spur demand for the metal as an alternative to holding currency" More >

What's Happened to Silver?
Source: Seeking Alpha, Brad Zigler  (2/17/10)
"Silver's recovery to its former highs. . .seems more likely in a booming economy" More >

U.S. Bank Lending Falls at Fastest Rate In History
Source: Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard  (2/17/10)
"The reason the Great Depression became 'great' was the contraction of credit." More >

Weekend Gold, Silver, Nat Gas & Oil Trading Report
Source: Chris Vermeulen, TheGoldAndOilGuy  (2/16/10)
Last week ended on a positive note with stocks and commodities pushing higher into Friday's close. The market overall is looking very unstable here and this week I figure there will be some big price movement. More >

Colombia Is Open for Business
Source: David Galland, Casey Research  (2/16/10)
Oddly enough, where the mountains were once the guerillas' strongholds, now they are relatively safe. The Colombian economy, with its free-market approach, has fared better than its Latin American neighbors, and foreign investment is starting to flow in. More >

Gold's Bull Market Turns Nine Years Old
Source: Mary Anne and Pamela Aden, Aden Forecast  (2/16/10)
Pressure is likely to stay on gold and the metals in the weeks ahead, which means it's time to take advantage of weakness by adding or buying new positions. Gold's major trend remains up, indicating it's headed higher. More >

Record Short Euro Positions Push Gold to New High
Source: Seeking Alpha, Gold Price Today  (2/16/10)
"Could a new bull rally be coming soon?" More >

China Leads in Global Mining's New-Look Financing Model
Source: Mineweb, Geoff Candy  (2/16/10)
"An Ernst & Young report on M&A shows Asia is sitting pretty" More >

Are U.S. Taxpayers Bailing Out Greece?
Source: GoldSeek, Ron Paul  (2/16/10)
". . .current laws exempt agreements between the Fed and foreign central banks from disclosure or audit." More >

China and India: The Asian Gold-Buying Phenomenon
Source: Lawrence Williams,Mineweb  (2/15/10)
The ever growing purchasing power of the Chinese and Indian general populations throws bearish fundamental analyses of the gold market into disarray.
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Will Silver Outperform Gold in 2010?
Source: Clif Droke  (2/15/10)
In a recent issue of Barron's addressed the question of silver possibly having another outperformance in the coming year. The article asks, "Will the poor man's gold shine in 2010?" More >

Chinese to Buy Even More Gold in Year of the Tiger
Source: GoldSeek, Peter Cooper  (2/15/10)
". . .from 2003–2009 Chinese households bought almost 1,800 tons of gold" More >

Goldman's O'Neill Says 'Something Brewing' in China on Currency
Source: Bloomberg, Simon Kennedy  (2/15/10)
"It could happen anytime." More >

Is Gold Beginning to Break with the Dollar Again?
Source: Lawrence Williams, Mineweb  (2/14/10)
Gold has been recovering a little despite continuing dollar strength against the Euro and some other currencies. More >

Caution Reigns
Source: David Coffin & Eric Coffin, Hard Rock Advisory  (2/13/10)
The January market dip was focused on profit taking. Good results in various sectors brought selling, but not selloffs. It is evidence that caution still reigns at the start of the new decade and isn't really saying much else, for now. More >

Athens-Upon-Tyne
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (2/13/10)
So, who gets to play Lehman's in this comedic repeat. . .? More >

China's Tightening Is a Good Thing
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors  (2/13/10)
China sees a bubble ahead and is trying to avoid it—is that such a bad thing? More >

Sooner or Later, You'll Invest Abroad
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey's Gold & Resource Report  (2/13/10)
Many conventional U.S. brokers are relatively clueless when it comes to gold stocks. If you asked them to name one, chances are it would be a domestic producer, one with assets located primarily in North America. But that's not where the big money will be made over the next decade. More >