investorintel article , mentioning CREInvestorIntelReport for May 2015: Though the news lately has been consolidation of the Chinese rare earth companies, the talk elsewhere this month was about batteries. This was very good for lithium and graphite stocks. There was news about graphite everywhere from Elon Musk’s powerwall batteries to mention in the US senate; specifically our members Graphite One and rare earth company Ucore Rare Metals deposits’ in Alaska were discussed.
Numbers for May were up and down, yet on average our members were up 6.65%. The sector that did the best was Graphite and Graphene, up 22.06%. This was no surprise after all the talk of batteries for electric cars and Tesla’s powerwall batteries in homes this month. Next was Technology stocks, which were up 17.92%. The companies specifically involved with lithium were up 13.76%, including Critical Elements Corp.(TSXV: CRE OTCQX: CRECF), who were the #4 dollar amount gainer.
Then came Clean Tech, up 11.27%, and Gold & Precious Metals at 7.67%. Technology Metals were up 1.84%, though there were several members up and down considerably. Rare earth companies were up 3.09%. Agriculture & Medical Marijuana stocks were up 1.09%. Bio-Tech was down 2.37%, and Oil & Gas was down 5.11%, due to global uncertainties in that market. Uranium & Energy was down the most at 12.48%.
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