Archive for September, 2010

You may have noticed that yesterday’s Money Morning didn’t arrive in your inbox until late evening. Sorry about that. It seems we had a bit of jip with our email equipment. So, if you missed yesterday’s edition, just take another look in your inbox. You should have received it around 10pm – roughly eleven hours [...]

You know an economy might be facing a little trouble when one of its own central bankers says that officials should ‘…not settle for weak growth out of misplaced fear of inflation.’ Oh dear. Adam Posen, a policy maker at the Bank of England (BoE) has said that quantitative easing needs to be resumed immediately [...]

COALSPUR Mines plans to raise up to $80 million at a 13 per cent discount to buy coal leases, as it furthers its Canadian ambitions.

“Forget mining and central banks. Here’s the single most important gold supply issue today…”
IT WAS TOUGH once again to meet any gold “bears” at the London Bullion Market Association’s annual conference this year.
The bullish arguments you know already no doubt. Low-to-zero Western interest rates…plus a growing clamor to buy gold amongst Chinese households (the Middle [...]

OIL climbed to seven-week highs today, helped by improving economic data and continued support from declines in US oil and fuel inventories.

GOLD eased from all-time highs today, snapping a six-day winning streak as participants sought to cash in on the metal’s record prices.

When James Carville hung a sign with the phrase, “It’s The
Economy, Stupid” on Bill Clinton’s Little Rock campaign headquarters in 1992
the message to campaign insiders was pretty clear – Clinton was a better
choice than Bush because Clinton u…

BHP Billiton says its huge planned Olympic Dam open-pit mine in South Australia could produce more than 1.3 million tonnes a year of copper.

THE Greens don’t like fossil fuels, but their wish to lower carbon emissions could further increase the demand for Australia’s natural gas.

COSTS to build the coalminer-funded Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal at Gladstone have blown out to $5 billion.