US Oil Sands Inc. (TSXV:USO), which holds the largest commercial oil sands land position in the U.S., has announced a strategic 80 million dollar private placement today at .15 cents, representing a 49% premium to the 20 day volume weighted average trading price of the Company’s common shares. Blue Pacific Investments Group Ltd., Anchorage Capital Group LLC… Continue Reading

“I was led to your site by a mutual fiend (correct spelling).” Was he talking about you? If so, thanks.

I was very fortunate to get to meet artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun at his studio in Vancouver yesterday. Yuxweluptun, born in Kamloops in 1957, is one of Canada’s most accomplished painters. His works are featured in the National Gallery of Canada. I first saw LPY’s art in a CEO.CA post by Joseph Staples last November. His New Chiefs… Continue Reading

We are always looking for new contributors to the site. If you are publishing compelling investing or entrepreneurship content, send your work to tommy @ ceo dot ca. We will help you edit and promote your articles. Suggestions for stories, as well as links to other sites, are welcomed also. Just take a sentence or… Continue Reading

Three young black men from New York show Mike Wallace why not to judge a book by its cover… \ “Mom told me I had to work three times as hard, “Once because you’re black, twice because you’re Trinidadian, and three times because after I sacrificed so much, you better not let me down.” “Would… Continue Reading

Gold’s decade long bull run from 2001-2011 was predicated upon two primary supporting trends: 1. A falling US dollar and a growing global distrust and waning confidence in the greenback as the world’s reserve currency. 2. Falling US Treasury yields and negative real interest rates throughout much of the developed world. While there are certainly… Continue Reading

To make great content, have incredible experiences, Ryan Holiday argues. VICE’s Portrait of a Russian Oligarch is an example. After the collapse of Communism in Russia, as state assets were divvied up and privatized, a few individuals stepped in to take the reins of this entrepreneurial experiment. Rewarded with massive fortunes and fame, they came… Continue Reading

After gold had fallen nearly $45 on Friday morning something that we haven’t seen in a while happened. Gold gradually began to rise, eventually ending the week back above $1220 in a sign that the gold market may have reached a point of selling exhaustion. A higher low in price that coincides with a new… Continue Reading

While most market participants were enjoying some time away from the screens last week, crude oil staged a highly significant breakout: Click to enlarge WTI Crude Daily WTI Crude Monthly Even Brent crude blasted through a major support/resistance zone near $106: While we could certainly see some digestion of recent gains over the near term,… Continue Reading

Canada has a very diverse and thriving economy that is not solely dependent on the resource extraction industries. Granted we do have some of the best mining companies and mining professionals in the world. In Canada there is however an amazing amount of emphasis on the financing of resource exploration projects. The TSX Venture exchange… Continue Reading

JP Morgan is out with its first overweight call on commodities since September 2010 (a call which turned out to be highly prescient) – here are some of the key takeaways from this bold contrarian call: Seasonality is very favorable once again for commodities Risk is now skewed toward demand growth surprise and production disappointments… Continue Reading

In good times and bad, the mining industry is always known for giving back to its community. Earlier this year, the mining for miracles campaign raised a staggering $1,638,153 for the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. Building on that philanthropic momentum, we’re putting out a call to the mining industry to support the Greater Vancouver Food… Continue Reading

There is a lot of humble pie being served up to the gold investment community in recent weeks. We should know, as much as we have tried to help identify high probability bottoming opportunities in both precious metals and mining stocks, the selling has been relentless. Rather than going through all the usual extreme data… Continue Reading

An important chart from The McClellan Market Report illustrating the latest commitment of traders report in gold futures which shows the lowest commercial net short interest since 2001: Click to enlarge This is a decidedly bullish phenomenon for gold – click over to read the rest “Gold COT Data Show Bottoming Condition” 

The MercenaryTrader guys have quickly become one of my favorite trading blogs. Yesterday, they published a post entitled “Letting the Trade Make Itself”   – this post happened to be along the lines of many ideas which I have been playing with and attempting to articulate recently. I am especially fond of the following concept: “There… Continue Reading