Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Brand Disloyalty

October 22, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

The Daily Reckoning The US dollar is a sort of monetary brand. And like any other brand, it can fall out of favor. Even iconic brands can rapidly lose their “must-have” caché. Sometimes, a brand can disappear entirely, as did Pan American Airways or “Members Only” jackets. But there is always something else waiting to [...]

Aluminum May Outperform Copper

October 10, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

Marc Courtenay submits: The Royal Bank of Scotland (NYSE:RBS) has released its latest Commodity Companion, covering base and precious metals, iron and the energy complex. Among the major conclusions are the belief that copper will make new record highs by 2013, but that from current prices aluminium may well have the greatest longer term upside. [...]

Gold ETF Funds

September 30, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

The Gold ETF Funds or Gold exchange traded funds was established to help track the price of gold on the major trading markets around the world. This was first conceived back in 2002 but was not launched onto the markets until 2003 out of Australia. Since that time numerous countries have listed gold stocks on [...]

The New Gold Buyer

September 29, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

The Daily Reckoning “Gold is rising because the post-Breton Woods exchange rate system doesn’t work,” Eric Roseman, our colleague over at the Commodity Trend Alert, matter-of-factly declares. “More than ever, governments are piling up debts, as a result of bailing-out their respective banking systems. There is a price to pay for this profligate spending. And [...]

NYSE Embraces A Ruinous Idea

July 31, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

By Rick Ackerman, GoldSeek Sadly, another venerable American institution has lost its way: the New York Stock Exchange. We read the other day that the Exchange is building a fast-trade hub in northern New Jersey that supposedly will help secure its future in an increasingly electronic world. But raising capital for companies that could presumably [...]