Gold:Silver Ratio – Buy Silver!

This article suggests that silver is undervalued compared to gold by anywhere from 10% to 50% based on historical gold to silver price relationships.

With primary secular bull or bear trends easily running from 10 to 20 years of the average investor’s 40 year investing lifespan it is crucial to identify optimal accumulation points within these primary trends to avoid prolonged periods of under-performance and potentially negative returns and to avoid dramatically reducing the number of productive years in which to build one’s fortune. [Read more...]

Gold Wheaton and South African Uranium

The Canadian miner's Barbados unit will put up an initial payment of $50m Canada's Gold Wheaton Gold Corp (GLW.V: Quote) said its Barbados unit agreed with First Uranium Corp (FIU.TO: Quote) to buy gold from its South African unit for an initial payment of $50 million. Gold Wheaton will buy 7% of the life of mine gold production from Ezulwini Mining Co's mining right over its Ezulwini mine, which covers about 3,718 hectares, in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Under the deal, which is expected to close in late November, Gold Wheaton will pay First Uranium $400 per ounce on each gold delivery, or the prevailing spot price of gold, whichever is lower. [Read more...]

Gold Market Fundamentals

Gold at Both Ends of the Economic K Wave Cycle Now that the 10-year cycle has peaked, fear will become the dominant emotion in the financial marketplace in the years ahead. Risk aversion is on the rise since the credit crisis and investors must look to those assets which tend to benefit from fear. Gold is of course the chief beneficiary of fear and has the added feature of being a hedge against a hyper-deflationary environment. Hyper deflation will be the order of the day in 2012-2014 when the final leg of the 60-year cycle descends. [Read more...]

Investing in BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP)

The Best-Run Commodities Company In The World Some companies just stand out – both in their own sectors and in the larger market. Australian firm BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) is one of them. As the largest and most diversified commodities producer in the world, BHP has leading positions in most key, low-cost, metal and mineral deposits in the world. [Read more...]

A Bullish Oulook on Silver

Silver Remains Very Undervalued Silver remains very undervalued on an historical basis (charts below) and is undervalued even against gold (chart below). While gold has begun to receive some interest from a small minority of retail investors, silver remains the preserve of relatively few contrarian investors and the media and financial press rarely if ever covers silver. And yet silver is quite likely in the intermediate stage of a bull market that will rival or surpass that of the 1970’s. [Read more...]

The Bullish Argument for Silver

Silver Golden Accumulation Opportunity Actually, the golden opportunity is for buying silver at current prices. The motive for lifting the USDollar was the gargantuan $115 billion in USTreasurys offered this week. With bond yields rising from gargantuan supply, the USGovt and USDept Treasury and USFed did not wish to have both bond principal values fall and the USDollar fall. So the witch doctors engineered a meager semi-lifeless US$ rally, and a full 100-cent silver price discount. The claim again came that the bond auction bid/cover was strong at over 3:1 ratio. But 1.0 of that comes from the primary dealers who are bound to bid. The rest came in majority from foreign central banks. Same Modus Operandi by the Big Boyz. [Read more...]

Gold and Silver: Examining Risk Exposure

Gold and Silver, What is Your Exposure A well-known truism is that every investor needs to start with savings. But what if that “savings” gave the investor too much exposure to risk? What investors or people in general need in this financial environment is savings that don’t deteriorate. We are in an environment now where the idea of making money, which is kind of the preamble to being American, is going away. In other words, today’s environment is, he who loses the least, wins, and the way that you do that is to hold a currency that doesn’t devalue over time. [Read more...]

Bullish Set-Up for Silver SLV ETF

Let's notice that today's early weakness in the iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV) came right down to its week-long support line at 17.02, which contained the weakness, after which the price structure pivoted to the upside into a spike that is nearing a test of the 10 day resistance line, now at 17.48.