Dollar Wobbles on Chinese Currency Diversification Concerns
Source: Seeking Alpha, GoldCore  (10/27/09)
"People's Bank of China said. . .the share of the euro and the yen should increase in its foreign exchange reserves" More >

Coming Copper Supply Crunch Supports Strong Prices - VM Group
Source: Mineweb, Lawrence Williams  (10/27/09)
"The drivers for continuing strength are. . .Chinese demand and strength, rapidity of OECD nations recovery" More >

Silver Wound Dressing Launched into $15 Billion Global Market
Source: Mineweb, Lawrence Williams  (10/27/09)
". . .[dressings] allow a controlled and sustained release of silver into the wound" More >

Russia Says Leak Prompts Postponement of Gold Sale
Source: Reuters, Polina Devitt  (10/27/09)
"Analysts had initially been a little skeptical of the sale plans. . ." More >

Progress and Stages of Public Interest
Source: Neil Charnock, GoldOz  (10/26/09)
I received some great feedback this week that really got me thinking in a different direction other than analysis of gold, markets, economic news and gold stocks. . . More >

Abolishing Risk Destroys America and Your Wealth
Source: Axel Merk  (10/26/09)
Our willingness to engage in risks drives our prosperity. We urgently need a public debate on risk, one driven by reason, not emotion. More >

The War over the Dollar versus Gold
Source: Clif Droke  (10/26/09)
A fierce war of words has erupted in recent weeks between the two major camps in monetary circles. . . More >

Dollar Alert – Revenge of the Greenback
Source: Clive Maund  (10/26/09)
The dollar is at a crossroads and there are two probable scenarios. One is a final plunge following the recent grinding decline to an intermediate low that is followed by an intermediate reversal. The other is that it suddenly breaks out upside from the severe downtrend it has been stuck in since early March. . . More >

The Gold and Oil Rally – a Long Term Look
Source: John Winston, Technical Commodity Trader  (10/26/09)
When you get right down to it, no matter what techniques one might rely on for investment decisions there is one thing that they all have in common. In order to be successful, an investor has to be on the right side of the longer term trends. More >

Anything Less than Full Disclosure Is Unacceptable
Source: GoldSeek, Ron Paul  (10/26/09)
". . .no longer will decisions that carry so much economic weight be made in absolute secrecy." More >

Odd Couple: Stocks, Gold Share Same Ride Higher
Source: Wall Street Journal, E.S. Browning  (10/26/09)
"Gold futures, a bet on calamity, are up 19%." More >

Gold, Silver, Oil, Natural Gas ETF Trading
Source: Chris Vermeulen, TheGoldAndOilGuy  (10/25/09)
The past week in gold, silver, oil, natural gas and the broad market wasn't anything to write home about. We are seeing controlled profit taking, which is making the market choppy. More >

John Doody: Rising Gold Dances, but Won't Die, with the Dollar
Source: The Gold Report  (10/23/09)
With all the 'strong dollar' rhetoric coming from the Fed and broken-record Bernanke, it's a wonder any investors are making money. But one we know and trust is. . .because he's not listening. "The U.S. will continue to take a laissez faire approach to the dollar," says John Doody, Economics Professor for nearly two decades and current author and publisher of Gold Stock Analyst. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, John explains how he measures gold's price performance, why he believes most investors don't have enough gold stocks in their portfolios and which companies he's making money on right now. More >

Pig Farmers Are Making Brent Nervous
Source: Brent Cook, Exploration Insights/The Gold Report  (10/23/09)
Before getting into to the relationship between copper and pork products, I want to draw your attention to one paragraph from a commentary by Paul van Eeden that offers a contrarian, and undoubtedly unpopular view amongst the Kitco readership, of the gold market. . . More >

Morgan on Rocks and Stocks
Source: David Morgan, Silver-Investor  (10/23/09)
David Morgan on what it's going to take for silver to break out of its current range. In conversation with Andy Sutton of the Rocks and Stocks Report. More >

Gold Set for Fourth Weekly Gain as Dollar Weakens
Source: Bloomberg, Glenys Sim  (10/23/09)
"Bullion is up 0.8% this week as Dollar Index. . .slid 0.8%." More >

High Gold Price Forces Rural Indians to Invest in Silver
Source: Commodity Online  (10/23/09)
"Silver prices have seen a much sharper price rise in the last 12 months. . ." More >

The Big Secret in Gold
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (10/23/09)
The little-known state of the gold market as prices close at a new weekly high... More >

When Will Inflation Really Hit Us?
Source: Terry Coxon, The Casey Report  (10/23/09)
Most of us are gathered at the station, watching for the Inflation Express to come rumbling in. But we've been waiting for a while now. Just when should we expect the big locomotive to arrive and start pushing the prices of most things uphill? More >

Gold IS
Source: Neil Charnock, GoldOz  (10/22/09)
Gold IS the best game in town and when the music stops it may be the ONLY game in town that can yield any sort of return. The music I refer to here is the sound of spin given some measure of credibility (only to the uninitiated) by massive stimulus spending. . . More >

Rare Earths, Critical/Strategic Metals and U.S. Legislative Agenda
Source: MetalMiner, Lisa Reisman  (10/22/09)
"The first challenge involves a lack of information about critical materials." More >

Silver Futures Show Markets Are Acting Strangely
Source: Seeking Alpha, Ed Zimmer  (10/21/09)
"Two U.S. banks are short 38,375 Silver Contracts." More >

U.S. Federal Mining and Millsite Claims War Heats Up Again
Source: Mineweb, Dorothy Kosich  (10/21/09)
". . .war, waged through three U.S. presidencies, begins again in earnest." More >

Stocks vs. Bonds: 5-Decade Anomaly Returns
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (10/21/09)
Stocks now pay way less than bonds once again, but neither pay much. . . More >

Mid Week Gold, Silver, Oil and Nat Gas Trading Report
Source: Chris Vermeulen, TheGoldAndOilGuy  (10/21/09)
Commodities so far this week have not changed much. But I can point out a few things for us to watch Friday. . . More >