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CURRENT QUOTES Gold Stocks Click Stock symbols AUY  PPP  NGD  RIC    AZK  IAG   NEM  KGC  GG ABX   AU   AEM   RGLD   RBY   GBN    HMY   GFI EGO   ANV   FRG    NG   PZG   GOLD  MFN ETF - Fund tracks the price of gold bullion GLD ETF that tracks gold miners GDX Copper, Gold, silver FCX  - Gold Mutual Fund BGEIX

CURRENT QUOTES Silver Stocks Click on the Stock symbols below     SVM  GPL  CDE   SLW   PAAS   SSRI AG   MVG   EXK   HL OMEX Ship Wrecks Platinum and Palladium SWC   PAL

11/23/2011 Forbes says under $7 per share SVM is Oversold under $7 per share

Non U.S. precious metals miners - such as Canadian producers benefit from not having to deal with oppressive environmental (EPA) restrictions, politics and fines as in the U.S.

Silvercorp (SVM) fought fraud allegations by anonymous bloggers Short Sellers Profit from Fraud?

Yamana Gold AUY - has one of the industry’s lowest production cost per ounce $250. Along with Yamana, (ABX -Barrick $326) and (GG -Goldcorp $164) have two of the lowest cost operations in the business. On Aug. 1, 2011 with a stock price of $47.92 Barrick Gold (ABX) was been picked by Standard & Poor's Equity Research as Focus Stock with it's highest investment recommendation of 5-STARS, or Strong Buy.
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A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the
western U.S.  Chesapeake Energy CHK    EOG Resources EOG

ASSORTED STOCKS AND FUNDS BELOW - FOR RESEARCH
Note the 52 week high and low - PE Ratio (price to earnings) and Dividend Yield

Pipelines TransCanada TRP  Kinder Morgan KMP  Teppco TPP  Williams WMB  Dynergy DYN
Pengrowth Energy Trust Canada PGH  Harvest Energy HTE  Penn West PWE
Florida Power FPL   Canada Energy Trust ERF (Note the dividend Yield)  Brazil Petroleum PBR
Natural Resources and Uranium Billiton Limited Australia BHP
Food Resources  Archer Daniels Midland ADM   Bunge BG
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China Funds and Stock  Templeton Dragon Fund TDF   China Tech CNTF
Latin America Telecom AMX  Mutual Fund PRLAX

Wireless, Computers and Technology Broadcom BRCM  Intel INTC  Cisco Systems CSCO
Research in Motion RIMM  Qualcomm QCOM Computer Speech NUAN   Apple AAPL 
Intl Bus Machines IBM  Google GOOG   Yahoo YHOO   Microsoft MSFT

Semiconductor Fund SMH  NASDAQ 100 Index Large Cap Fund QQQ

General Electric GE    WalMart WMT    WalMart In Mexico WMMVF

Financial Crisis from Credit Default Swaps - American International Group AIG
Financial Select Sector index fund XLF
Bank Stocks -Bank of America BAC  CitiGroup C  JP Morgan Chase JPM  Wells Fargo WFC

Auto Stocks  General Motors GM Liquidated  Ford F  Toyota TM  Nissan NSANY

Oil Stocks (XOM) Exxon Mobil  (BP) British Petroleum  (CVX) Chevron  (COP) Conoco Phillips
Ethanol Stocks  VeraSun Energy VSE is the largest ethanol stock. The stock price is down 40%.
Pacific Ethanol PEIX a large ethanol stock is down from a high of $42 a share in 2006 to under $1 now

Since January 2008, a popular exchange-traded fund (ticker: GLD) that tracks the price of gold bullion is up 9% - versus a 32% loss for an ETF that tracks gold miners (GDX). The breakdown comes thanks to the credit crisis and a surge in input costs that have sapped profits of companies that mine gold.

In 2011 Gold more than doubled and may yet triple from the average gold price in May 2005 of $640 per ounce. The Federal Reserve continues to print paper money. Many Investors believe the stimulus packages devalued the U.S. dollar. The total value of derivatives in the world exceeds total global gross domestic product by a factor of 10. Beijing urged Washington to put its fiscal house in order. China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing ownership from $210 billion in May 2009 to $5.6 billion in March 2011. Treasury bills are sold by the U.S. to fund the nation’s debt. Credit standards tighten - more than 4 in every 5 real estate mortgages now require a down payment of 20%. At the same time, foreclosures continue at a brisk pace

June 2, 2011 (Kitco News) - There seems to be an ongoing shift among coin buyers from gold to less expensive silver coins, says HSBC. The U.S. Mint reported sales totaling 3.65 million ounces of American Eagle silver coins in May that was an increase of 30% from April, and the Mint also has the best year-to-date sales so far since 1986. Meanwhile, May American Eagle gold coin sales fell 0.9% to 107,000 ounces, compared to the last month. The U.S. Mint also is bringing on production at its San Francisco facility to meet high demand for silver coins, HSBC notes. The bank points out, however, that the retail demand is being offset by increased mine output, as the Mexican National Statistics Institute reported an increase of 39% in March silver production from March 2010, mostly to increased output at Buenavista. Other major producers in Latin America are also increasing silver output by a significant amount.

4/18.2011 - S&P downgraded the outlook on U.S. debt to negative from stable. The ratings agency cited large deficits the lack of any “clear” path to address these but did not lower the U.S. debt rating itself
4/19/2011 - New Highs - intraday gold hit $1500 per ounce and silver $44

Yamana Gold (AUY)- in the 4th quarter of 2010 production costs were $465 to produce an ounce of gold, but counting its by-product credits silver, copper etc...that number was negative $34, which is expected to rise to $250 in 2011 as rising input costs catch up to the company. Along with Yamana, (ABX-Barrick $326) and (GG-Goldcorp $164) have two of the lowest cost operations in the business

2/21/2011 - Gold prices rose above $1,400 an ounce for the first time in nearly seven weeks as violence flared in north Africa and the Middle East, boosting interest in the precious metal as a haven from risk. Gold Silver Ratio slips to lowest since 1998

Gold hit a record $1,424 an ounce on 11/9/2010 before retrenching. Market sentiment remains positive for gold over a two-year horizon,” BNP said. “A number of factors are supportive of an upward trend in price, including increasing uncertainty regarding the role of the USD (U.S. dollar) within the international monetary system, concerns related to the stability of peripheral euro-zone countries and growing inflationary pressures in Asian emerging markets, particularly China.”
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Pay attention to gold and silver reserve/resource ratios, or how much they’re producing relative to how much they still have in the ground. Also gross profit margins etc - (2010 Example Yamana Gold  (AUY) Market cap $8.84Billion. 5-year average gross margin at 41.03% vs. industry average at 40.68%. 5-year average net profit margin at 23.14% vs. industry average at -0.72%.

The Earth's crust contains about 15 ounces of silver for every one ounce of gold.
That long-term relationship (15 to 1 ratio) between gold and silver was true for centuries. With Gold at $1350 per ounce you can obtain 45 ounces of $30 silver for the price of an ounce of gold. (50 to 1 ratio). The big disconnect from the historical ratio forms an important contention that silver could deliver greater upside than gold as the mother of all currency, as the financial crisis plays out across the globe. Historically, during periods of high inflation volatility, gold-to-silver ratios typically ranged from 30-40.

For most of recorded history, the price of gold has been around 16 times the price of silver. This ratio – the so-called "silver ratio" – has fluctuated from time to time based on silver discoveries and attempts by governments to regulate the silver-to-gold ratio. But... in a free market, where demand for silver as money exists, I'd expect the natural supply and demand balance to lead to a silver price around 1/16 times the price of gold.

The Fifth Amendment states, "No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

Critics of the current financial system argue that using Federal Reserve notes as legal tender, rather than gold or silver-backed currency, means the value of Americans' money and thus their "property" is siphoned away by inflation, a process perpetuated by the government's reliance on legal tender.

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, favors abolishing the Fed's system of fiat currency to return to dollars backed by gold. "Throughout its nearly 100-year history, the Federal Reserve has presided over the near-complete destruction of the United States dollar," Paul said. "Since 1913 the dollar has lost over 95 percent of its purchasing power, aided and abetted by the Federal Reserve's loose monetary policy.

Nov 16, 2010 - The combination of dollar strength and worries over Chinese tightening suggest that commodities have become less desirable. Gold and silver continue to drift lower.

On Nov 8, 2010 Gold breaks $1410 per ounce and Silver soars past $27.75 On the same day World Bank President Robert Zoellick wrote in an opinion article printed in the Financial Times that Gold should be used as an “international reference point” as the Group of 20 nations strive to revive global economic growth. Full News Here

August 2010 - Gold advanced on signs that the global economic recovery is sputtering, helping to revive demand for the metal as a store of value. Gold is up 9.3 percent this year and set for its 10th straight annual advance, the longest winning streak since at least 1920, as investors shield their wealth against economic turmoil and the prospect of currency debasement.

July 2010 China has moved to liberalize its gold market further, increasing the number of banks allowed to trade bullion internationally and announcing measures that will encourage development of gold-linked investment products. The move by Beijing’s central bank comes as the country’s investors pour record amounts of money into gold, in a trend that is becoming a significant factor on global prices. Last year, Chinese investors bought 73 tones of bullion, up from 18 tones in 2007. The new policies were likely to increase liquidity in the domestic gold market and spur the development of gold financial products, analysts said. China is the world’s largest gold producer and the second-largest consumer, after India, but its domestic market remains constrained by limited investment products.

In terms of Gold the Dow lost 77% purchasing power from 2000 to 2008.
Jan 2000. The Dow at 11,750. If you invested $11,750 in the Dow, you could have bought
41 ounces of gold ..462 barrels of oil ..134 pounds of copper.
May 2008. The Dow at 13,000. If you invested $13,000 in the Dow it would only purchase
14.38 ounces of gold or 65% less than it did in 2000. 105 barrels of oil or 77% less, 74% less copper

Since March 2009 the Securities and Exchange Commission is still soliciting comments and proposals concerning restoring "The uptick rule"  Sec.Gov
The uptick rule was instituted by the SEC following the Great Depression, said that the short selling of stocks could be done only after the share price ticked higher above the prior sale. The rule was designed as a guardrail to prevent short sellers from driving the price of a stock lower at a faster clip.

In a short sale, an investor borrows a stock from a broker, sells it to other investors, and tries to buy it back at a lower price before returning it to the original lender. The difference in the transactions is kept as a profit.

The SEC made the controversial decision to eliminate the uptick rule in June 2007 after its analysis showed it did little to prevent the manipulation of share prices. Of course, many market participants point to the SEC's decision as the catalyst that helped short sellers thrive in 2008.