(Image via American CuMo Mining Corporation.) EDITOR'S NOTE: This article has been edited since it was originally publushed on May 13th, 2021. Investors have been glued to the recent run in base and precious metals, especially the prices of silver and copper, w...
Stockhouse Editorial
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May 11, 2021
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Investors are betting on growth stocks over value stocks by a wider spread right now than at any other time since at least 1990, including during the tech bubble. The ratio between the Russell 1000 Growth Index and Russell 1000 Value Index reached a series high of 1....
Frank Holmes
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May 27, 2020
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The $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package that President Donald Trump signed into law on March 27 is just the beginning. The Treasury Department is now seeking some $250 billion more to replenish small business loans, and there’s hope that the president...
Frank Holmes
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April 9, 2020
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Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, as they say, and the past number of days have been nothing if not total confirmation of that adage. As of Monday morning, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. stood at more than 143,000, with New Y...
Frank Holmes
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March 30, 2020
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This week, residents of San Antonio, Texas, home to U.S. Global Investors, were ordered to work from home, with some exceptions. Like countless people in other parts of the country and world, our team has had to quickly and nimbly adapt to a new normal, and to be innovati...
Frank Holmes
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March 27, 2020
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We may very well be headed for a recession—some economists believe it’s already here —but we’re most definitely in a bear market, normally defined as occurring when stocks are off more than 20 percent from their peak. Not only that, bu...
Frank Holmes
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March 18, 2020
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If anyone has the right to say “I told you so,” it’s Bill Gates. Two years ago, the co-founder, former CEO and now former board member of Microsoft urged governments to step up their preparedness in the event of a modern global ...
Frank Holmes
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March 16, 2020
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Ever on the hunt for a great bargain, billionaire investor Warren Buffett boosted his company’s stake in Delta Air Lines once again. Berkshire Hathaway acquired some 976,000 Delta shares in February for roughly $45.3 million, according to a filing last Mon...
Frank Holmes
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March 10, 2020
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Chinese manufacturing activity slumped to a record low in February as the coronavirus outbreak temporarily shuttered plants and factories and travel restrictions impacted the supply of labor. The official government purchasing manager’s index (PMI) fell to...
Frank Holmes
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March 5, 2020
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As I write this, the market is officially in correction territory, with the S&P 500 off 14.5 percent from its all-time close on February 19. It took only six days, in fact, for the S&P to fall 10 percent from its high into a correction—a new record, according to data fr...
Frank Holmes
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March 2, 2020
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