Agnico Eagle Mines Limited has reported quarterly net income of $28.9 million, or $0.20 per share for the first quarter of 2008 with the First quarter 2008 highlights being as follows (read more…)

A consensus of analysts had anticipated profits of $0.15 per share however, Yamana Gold Incorporated beat those expectations with a $0.20 per share result, leading to an after hours jump in the stock price of $0.41 (read more…)

To bring you a different viewpoint we are posting this article by David Galland, the Managing Director of Casey Research with the intent of adding some balance to the debate, please feel free to add your comments.

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The current “battle” in the gold market is around the $900 level, a fairly steep retrenchment from the recent highs of $1,011. Some investors, their hopes dashed that $1,000 would be quickly and decisively overrun, are seeing disaster in this correction and dropping their gold as they run for cover.

So… do we at Casey Research think we’re now seeing a reversal in gold’s fortunes (read more…)

Silverado Gold Mines Limited were up today following a news release suggesting that they have inferred stibnite resources with a calculated unit worth $41.2 million, on an increased turnover of 9.52 million shares (read more…)

During the last major rally in gold prices, gold stocks made some great gains and investors such as yours truly were happy to take good profits on the gold mining companies we had bought over the summer doldrums. However we should have seen a much better performance.

Firstly, lets take a look at some of the main investment vehicles (read more…)

Here are some testimonials from readers of our website and newsletters.

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We have recently noticed how the actions of top executives at some of the largest financial institutions are not too different from those of The Sopranos.

Allow us to explain (read more…)

To bring you a different viewpoint we are posting this article by David Galland, the Managing Director of Casey Research with the intent of adding some balance to the debate.

Casey Research publishers of BIG GOLD:

Doug Casey, my partner and Casey Research chairman, describes his secret to making life-changing investment returns – and hanging on to them — as “Being bold when everyone else is timid, and timid when everyone else is bold.”

But putting a pleasant-sounding utterance into practice is far different than just parroting it.
Especially if you have taken an interest in gold shares over the last year or so (read more…)

As we are now of the opinion that the US dollar may spend some time going sideways, or perhaps even making some gains, we also now think that precious metals are going to take a significant drop.

We know we may sound a bit like a broken record, but gold is still too far above its 200 day moving average! This gap must be closed, and we think that closure will happen within the next couple of months. That means a $100 haircut for gold, which will hit gold stocks hard and also drag the silver price south (read more…)

The Bank of England confirmed the introduction of a “special liquidity scheme” whereby Treasury Bills will be swapped for high quality AAA rated mortgage backed securities. The Labour party that once represented socialism in Britain, is now coming to the rescue of poorly managed private banking enterprises. This gift to these banking failures is disguised as a loan with the people of Britain picking up the tab for the banking sectors grave mis-management (read more…)