South African labor unions have never been easy to deal with. The country is notorious for outbreaks of violence related to negotiations between unions...
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September 3 - News - Comments
The best thing about the stock market is that you can make money in either direction. Historically, stock indexes have tended to trend up over the long...
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August 27 - News - Comments
Amid all the turmoil in the stock and bond markets lately, many investors have forgotten about the big swings in the U.S. dollar recently. But some analysts...
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July 3 - News - Comments
The South African rand has declined more than 17% year-to-date. The country has recently released its first-quarter GDP results, which came in worse than...
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June 12 - News - Comments
The contrasts couldn’t be more stark: At a time when demand for physical possession of gold and silver has rarely been higher, the companies charged...
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May 3 - News - Comments
With a precipitous decline, gold fell more than 20% from its recent peak. That marks a gold bear market. Now is the time to start looking at gold miners...
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May 2 - News - Comments
On Tuesday, Yamana Gold Inc. (USA) (NYSE:AUY) will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting...
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April 28 - News - Comments
Considering the work stoppages and violent clashes that have become the norm at South African precious-metals mines, perhaps the miners were wondering...
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April 28 - News - Comments
Have you ever been dumpster diving? I have–it is a great past time. One thing I’ve learned is that you never know what some people will...
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April 19 - News - Comments
It’s been an awful start to the year for investors in gold miners. Shares of both Goldcorp Inc. (USA) (NYSE:GG) and Gold Resource Corporation...
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April 5 - News - Comments
You wouldn’t know it yet by charting these broadly abandoned stocks, but a major sea change is under way in the gold mining industry that I believe...
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February 16 - News - Comments
I don’t know what else to call it; it’s full-on goldageddon out there for the gold mining stocks! Gold prices just crashed through technical...
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February 15 - News - Comments
The much-anticipated firewall separating major gold miner Gold Fields Limited (NYSE:GFI) from two of its more challenging South African mining operations...
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February 12 - News - Comments
