Rising prices in precious metals and China’s monopoly in rare earth elements are leading to creativity and innovation in mining. For instance, Japan reported last month that they found extremely rich deposits of rare earth minerals on the seabed of the Pa...
Justin Dove
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October 28, 2012
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The computer hardware sector has been an outperformer during the past year, with the NYSE Arca Computer Hardware Index ( HWI ) soaring more than 87% during the prior 52 weeks. Comparatively, the tech-laden, and market-leading, Nasdaq Composite (COMP) has rallied some 48% dur...
Joseph Hargett
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October 28, 2012
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What a remarkable day Friday has been! Going into the U.S. session open, we have seen gold challenging its early-June highs. The barrage of geopolitical news has been deafening and gold had literally nowhere to go but up. But something “unexpected” y...
Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA
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June 18, 2019
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The synergies, potential and realized, that resulted from combining these two companies' Nevada assets are discussed in a BMO Capital Markets report. In a Sept. 23 research note, BMO Capital Markets analyst Andrew Kaip reported his impressions from 2.5 days spent with...
Streetwise Reports
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September 27, 2019
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An early stab Participating in the markets is full of conflicts. This is due to the fact of the high variability of the market which has as such many choices and many moving parts. In this week´s case we have a confirmed short signal on the weekly and ...
Korbinian Koller
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January 15, 2020
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In the wake of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, ATP Oil & Gas ( NASDAQ: ATPG , Stock Forum ) shares became a pariah, with investors bailing on the security left and right. However, by early June, the stock put in a bottom near the $8 level, and ATPG reversed c...
Joseph Hargett
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October 28, 2012
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With a market capitalization of roughly $8.19 billion, Xilinx Inc. ( NASDAQ: XLNX , Stock Forum ) is large by mid-cap standards, but the company is dwarfed by Intel Corp.'s (INTC) market capitalization -- a whopping $116.78 billion. However, judging XLNX by its size would...
Joseph Hargett
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October 28, 2012
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The solar sector was pounded last week, following reports that Germany is planning to cut solar financial support for new roof and open-field sites by 16%-17%. What's more, the report detailed that additional subsidy cuts for projects generating more than 3,000 megawatts wil...
Joseph Hargett
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October 28, 2012
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The recent rise in the U.S. dollar has been a bane for gold prices. In fact, the front-month gold futures contract has dropped nearly 6% since peaking in early December 2009. Adding to the precious metal's malaise, concerns over the massive sovereign debt loads among sever...
Joseph Hargett
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October 28, 2012
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Silver plunged on Tuesday, just as it was likely to after the triple reversal that we’ve been writing about , and it was declining strongly during Wednesday’s pre-market trading. And then it all changed. Silver soared before the U.S. markets op...
Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA
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November 7, 2019
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