Most people in the car industry believe that rising gas prices will crimp car sales. However, according to a recent survey, 32% of Americans say they will buy a new more fuel efficient car if the price of gasoline rises above $5 per gallon.
The S&P GSCI Index of 24 raw materials dropped about 10% since the Goldman (GS) sell call on April 11. It was up over 1% today on the new bullish call by both GS and Morgan Stanley (MS).
Two of our favourite silver producers led the charge today, Endeavour Silver Corporation (EXK) up 9.25% and First Majestic Silver Corporation (AG) up 7.49% as silver prices bounced $1.53/oz in today's trading session. Silver prices have gained 4.37% in today’s trading session and look to have found some support at the $34.00/oz level, which could form the platform for a re-test of the $40.00/oz level.
Most of the naysayers to the fact that gold is a wildly overvalued commodity seem to think it is not a bubble because gold is "currency." Even Cramer has weighed in that gold is currency -- so buy, buy, buy. The truth is that gold is not currency because it doesn't meet the economic definition of "currency" and will never be able to in the modern world.
The boom in resource industry wealth flowing from iron ore and coal exports to China and India has created a record number of billionaires in Australia, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The latest to top the billionaires club Down Under is iron ore queen Gina Reinhart, who has become the richest person ever in Australia, worth an estimated $10.3 billion. Reinhart is the first woman to to top BRW's Rich 200 list. The list shows Australia now has 35 billionaires, five more than last year, and a cut-off point of $215 million, which is $30 million higher than last year's cut-off of $185 million.
The debt problems now weighing on the Euro have inflicted a devaluation of around 6% this month with no recovery in sight for the PIIGS, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain. The harder the ECB tries to badger and cajole the PIIGS into accepting a serious dose of austerity, the more the people, who will have to carry this burden, revolt.
Economic cycles, like weather, run in seasons. Longwave Group Founder Ian Gordon explains why he believes the world economy is in the "winter" portion of an approximate 80-year cycle and how the financial excesses of the past 60 years are now being wrung out of the system. Ian also explains how investors can prepare to profit from the coming financial storm by positioning themselves in gold and junior gold stocks in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report.
It was another week of mixed markets where we did see some bottoms in stocks and US markets seem to have turned up thus far. Their not yet trending higher, but they look about to. The uncertainty of the end of QE2 coming in a little over a month is still weighing heavy as well as more issues over in Europe. It’s all par for the course though as the charts tell all, and usually in advance.
Bloomberg reports on Thursday that GVK Power & Infrastructure, a builder of airports and utilities controlled by Indian billionaire GV Krishna Reddy, is in talks to borrow as much as $850m to fund the purchase of two Hancock Prospecting coal mines according to people with knowledge of the negotiations. GVK will use the money to pay Hancock $500m for equity in the mines and another $350m as compensation for costs incurred by the Australian company for running them.
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