Global Markets Overview

U.S. Markets U.S. stocks pushed lower Tuesday afternoon as hopes for a big solution to Europe’s debt crisis waned following the cancellation of a scheduled meeting for European Union finance ministers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 134 points, or 1.1%, to 11779. The losses come after the blue-chip Dow rose more than 400 points [...]

Global Markets Overview

U.S. Markets U.S. stocks pushed lower Tuesday afternoon as hopes for a big solution to Europe’s debt crisis waned following the cancellation of a scheduled meeting for European Union finance ministers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 134 points, or 1.1%, to 11779. The losses come after the blue-chip Dow rose more than 400 points [...]

Silver Summit Report: Three Investment Approaches to the Volatile Metal

Silver Summit Report: Three Investment Approaches to the Volatile Metal Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report   (10/21/11) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/11358 For this special report from the Cambridge House  Silver Summit  in Spokane, Washington, The Gold Report  caught up with three silver investing experts: James Turk, chairman of GoldMoney; Andrew Kaip, vice president of Precious Metals Mining [...]

China Flirts With Hard Landing While Japan Buoyed By Positive Earnings Outlook

During a telephone call with a money manager over the weekend, I was surprised to hear of a new scenario making the rounds in investing circles. Some now believe that the Chinese economy’s forthcoming “hard landing” will be so jarring that it will bring the country’s gross domestic product growth down to 5 percent. For [...]

Bill Koenig: Fracking Tech Has Junior Producers Pumped

Bill Koenig: Fracking Tech Has Junior Producers Pumped Source: Zig Lambo of The Energy Report   (10/13/11) http://www.theenergyreport.com/pub/na/11255 To find the next resource boom, consider population demographics, says Bill Koenig, portfolio manager of Pathway Asset Management. In this exclusive interview with  The Energy Report,  Koenig explains why emerging-market growth is inevitable, and how North American oil [...]

Ross Beaty: Gold, Silver, Copper, Nickel and Alternative Energy for Fun and Profit

Ross Beaty: Gold, Silver, Copper, Nickel and Alternative Energy for Fun and Profit Source: Karen Roche and JT Long of The Gold Report   (10/12/11) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/11254 Legendary mining entrepreneur Ross Beaty is an optimist. He likes the opportunities present in both bear and bull markets. In this exclusive interview with  The Gold Report  at the  Casey [...]

BRIC Stocks: Will Their Slowing Economies Lead To Global Crisis?

(Written by Rebecca Lipman. List compiled by Eben Esterhuizen, CFA. Short data sourced from Yahoo! Finance.) The BRIC markets (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) haven’t received much headline attention during the global financial crisis, but they should hardly be dismissed. The nations have served as an invaluable pillar to the global economy and their economic issues [...]

Amine Bouchentouf: Offshore Oil Key to Future Supplies

Amine Bouchentouf: Offshore Oil Key to Future Supplies Source: Brian Sylvester of The Energy Report   (10/6/11) http://www.theenergyreport.com/pub/na/11167 Despite the risks and unfavorable public opinion associated with offshore drilling, the truth remains that the keys to unlock the planet’s vast remaining oil resources lie beneath ocean floors, in places like the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and [...]

Finding Growth In Canadian Pipelines

For more than a century, few if any trends have been as inevitable and inexorable as rising global demand for electricity. Despite great leaps forward in efficiency, that’s virtually set in stone for the next hundred years, as developed and emerging economies alike continue to electrify. Companies that produce and/or distribute power can stumble and [...]

Agriculture a Strong Buy in Asia, Africa and America

  Rising demand in Asia and Africa, recent floods in Asia and droughts in Africa are combining to lift global food prices. Despite improved production prospects, world cereal markets are likely to remain fairly tight in 2011/2012, FAO said today. FAO’s quarterly Crop Prospects and Food Situation (CPFS) report forecast world cereal production will total [...]

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