The VCMA (Venture Capital Markets Association) wrote a letter to all all elected members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia last week, arguing of the looming demise of Canada as the world’s mineral exploration leader. Don Mosher, Founder of the VCMA Advisory Board joins BNN to make the case on how too many regulations… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: The recent parabolic leveraged speculative rise and fall of the Shanghai Composite is reminiscent of silver’s epic rise and crash during 2011, have a look:  Silver (2010-2011)        Shanghai Composite (2014-2015)   While the chart structures are slightly different (silver rose 50% in barely 6 weeks while Shanghai took… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: Weekly chart wrap for the week ending 6/5/2015 – we saw some seismic moves in interest rates as equities began to show some chinks in their armor. The current trends are as follows: Oil: Oscillating within a range Precious metals: Lower Bond yields: Higher Equities: Oscillating within a range   WTI… Continue Reading

CEO.CA is excited to announce that CEO.CA Chat is now available in the Apple App Store and on Google Play, the Android app marketplace. Here’s the Apple download link. Here’s the Android download link. The App is designed to give investors a competitive advantage through real-time information. Its users are a vibrant community of professional and amateur investors,… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: I came across two powerful China charts from J.P.Morgan this weekend:   During the last decade the correlation between Chinese monetary conditions/nominal GDP growth and commodities is almost uncanny; the CRB bottomed at the exact month that China monetary conditions bottomed in early 2009 and began rolling over again in 2011 just… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: After a parabolic rally (sell-off in the Canadian dollar) to begin the year, the USD/CAD has been working on putting in a top for the past couple of months:   The key level to watch here is 1.2380 – a daily close below 1.2380 would hold major significance and I will… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: The ultra-strong US dollar (USD) is making its presence felt throughout the globe and is on the verge of wreaking havoc on a much larger scale. A premature Fed rate hiking cycle could be the catalyst to send the USD into overdrive and send global markets tumbling lower – 4 charts that… Continue Reading

Buccaneering financier Jim Slater has been sharing stock tips in the Telegraph newspaper for over 50 years. It’s important for potential investors to keep an eye out for these kinds of articles, as well as things like Grizzly Reports which help you to avoid making bad decisions. As well as this useful site, there are… Continue Reading

Seven hundred forty million dollars. That’s how much Bill Gross has reportedly invested of his own cash into the bond fund he manages at Janus Capital Group. The billionaire bond king—who unexpectedly left Pacific Investment Management Company, or PIMCO, in September after a clash with senior management—now owns a little over half of the $1.45… Continue Reading

Could equity crowdfunding fix junior mining’s financial woes? The Globe and Mail asked this question of a number of PDAC participants, and heard a variety of responses. The least optimistic of which came from one of the sector’s most accomplished faces. “The trouble with mining and exploration is it requires large amounts of capital,” Mr.… Continue Reading

During a period of polarizing precious metals and industrial commodity pricing, Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott U.S. Holdings was kind enough to share a few comments—opining on global counterparty risk, resource capital markets, capitulation, and more. When I asked for his expectation of a final capitulation sell-off in resource markets, Rick noted that, “We came… Continue Reading

Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund firm and is one of the most iconic money managers on Wall Street. The Harvard graduate created the All Weather fund in 1996 and revolutionized traditional optimal strategic asset allocation models. Instead of balancing portfolios based on total weightings only, he included risk,… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: The Canadian dollar (loonie) has completely fallen apart during the month of January, moving from 1.16CAD to the USD to over 1.27CAD to the USD this morning. By currency market standards this is an ENORMOUS move which has deep ripple effects across the economy in terms of trade, travel, and currency… Continue Reading

There is a unique confluence of forces lining up simultaneously in the US dollar now: Commercials have a massive short position in US Dollar Index futures while small speculators have never been longer The US Dollar Index is working on its 7th consecutive up month, the longest streak since 2010 which was coincidentally when the dollar put… Continue Reading

Deutsche Bank is out with some compelling slides on the Canadian housing market that should cause any good Canuck to sit up and take notice: There are more slides in the report but the picture is pretty clear. Canada has undergone a tremendous real estate boom during the past decade and prices in certain places… Continue Reading