Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The Golden Road Out of Financial Crisis

October 22, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

The Daily Reckoning “Who goes borrowing, goes sorrowing.” – Ben Franklin Today’s reckoning is going to be short. We’re on the road again…this time to Ireland where our Family office is headquartered. The quote above comes from one of America’s founding fathers. But it was recalled to us neither by America’s president, nor America’s secretary [...]

Don’t Trust the Dollar Strength

October 9, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

The Daily Reckoning As predicted, both the European Central Bank and the Bank of England kept their benchmark interest rates at record lows in an effort to keep stimulating their economies. Trichet signaled that the ECB has no plans to raise rates in the near future, stating that the current level is ‘appropriate’ for the [...]

Asian resource M&A activity to increase by 2012 – Fitch

October 6, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

The rating agency says supply chain integration and greater control of raw materials by end users such as China and India is expected to grow. Read more….

Expecting Gold to Sell Off – Temporarily – in October

October 5, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

Mark Brown submits: Gold traders and investors have been waiting for a clean break above gold’s nominal all-time high, recorded back in March 2008, but the process has been anything but sure and swift. Having risen approximately 300% since the start of its bull run in 2001, gold has far outpaced the investment gains in [...]

Zambia’s Chambishi delays restarting cobalt output

August 17, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

Zambia’s largest cobalt producer Chambishi Metals will delay restarting production until September after suppliers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) failed to deliver cobalt concentrates, it said on Sunday. Operations at Chambishi were suspended in December and were due to restart in August, but Chief Executive Officer Derek Webbstock said it would have to [...]

They Can’t See The Forest For The Trees!

July 20, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

By MIKE HOY, GoldSeek In the last three weeks a very important event took place that has been overlooked and misunderstood in the financial sector. The United States and the European Union have filed complaints against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on June 23 accusing Beijing of placing export restrictions on raw materials [...]