You may be interested to read this article by Peter Degraff which he has posted on Kitco.com, entitled; Did your Analyst Keep you Invested?

Peter expresses his confidence in this bull market having further to run and goes on to say that (read more…)

As we watch the trading session winding down in New York we can see gold and silver have had a tremendous day, with gold starting out at $935/oz and progressing to touch $950 as we write.

On the positive side for gold we have oil closing at $100.88/barrel and a myriad of billion dollar rescue packages for inept bankers and financial institutions. These actions may well be necessary however they ultimately serve to undermine our confidence in assets of the paper nature (read more…)

There is an interesting article by Barry Sergeant which appears on Mineweb.com whereby the author discusses the success of silver EFTs when compared to the performance of 50 silver shares.

The author points out that silver is at a twenty seven year high, trading at $18/oz and the best performing silver share is iShares Silver at $178.77 a pop, which is effectively a silver ETF (read more…)

Silver itself has made terrific progress to hit $18.00 gaining 24% since early December. The same is not true of the stocks as evidenced by the HUI which has gained 13% over the same period and languishes below its January high of 480.

Take a quick look at the chart above comparing the two (read more…)

Yesterdays news release was well received by silver bugs as the price of Endeavour jumped today by 10.63% to $4.06 as we write. Silver also put in a good day rising to $17.78 as we write, which no doubt acted as an additional kicker to Endeavours move (read more…)

Aside from our main investments in gold, silver and uranium, we have take a speculative position on the US financial sector.

The problems of the financial sector begun with the sub-prime crisis but we believe it will spread to all areas of real estate and this will have a massive impact on a myriad of financial sectors, such as bond insurance companies, all across the world.

It is clear to us that this Bernanke led Fed committee is nothing but a one trick pony when it comes to solving economic turmoil (read more…)

Endeavour Silver Corporation published a news release yesterday covering their achievements for 2007 and outlining their plans for 2008 together with a progress report for each project and some interesting charts.

However Endeavours stock price closed down yesterday as a number of our readers were quick to point out. Was yesterdays fall in price due to this news release you ask? Well (read more…)

US Dollars? No Thanks. We Want Euros. This is in New York.

Whilst tuning in and out of the 2008 Presidential Campaign on CNN, a piece about the US dollar caught our attention.

It appears that even in New York City, people are now beginning to reject US dollars (read more…)

Having just reported how well this company was doing Minco Silver Corporation puts in another good day to finish up 8.5% at $3.83 largely due to its latest news release.

Minco Silver went on to say (read more…)

Most investors are familiar with the concept of the yen carry trade. It is where a trader will borrow say 1,000,000 yen from a bank in Japan at about a 1% interest rate. The trader then converts these yen into say US dollars and uses the dollars to buy bonds yeilding say 5%. Therefore the trader is looking at making a profit of 4% on his trade (5% - 1% = 4%).

This works well so long as (read more…)