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Apex Silver Mines Might Be a Promising Short Play Now

Crashing commodities prices are not just putting hedge fund managers into a jam, they're also putting resource producers at risk. The price surge triggered by the commodities super-cycle had been a boon to large-scale miners in particular. Soaring ...

From J. CHRISTOPH AMBERGER, ETF Investor,  17 Oct 2008
Related Topics: BNP Paribas

Can China Weather a Downturn?

After all, Chinese banks appear to have dodged the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis. Barron’s wrote last month: Chinese lenders accumulated large amounts of that bad debt. But bankers have assured investors they are within manageable levels that won’t ...

From J. CHRISTOPH AMBERGER, The China Stock Blog,  12 Oct 2008
Related Topics: World Bank

Crash Will Squeeze Economy

The worst crash since 2001... 1987... 1937. As the National Debt Meter ran out of digits on Time Square earlier this week, the comparisons of the current crash with earlier catastrophic events are on a sliding scale backward. On Monday, they may ...

From J. CHRISTOPH AMBERGER, ETF Investor,  12 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NYSE,  General Electric,  Apple, Inc.,  NASDAQ,  General Motors

Shanghai Should Continue to Sell Off

U.S. investors are getting inured to the bad news about American financials and insurers. Gold bugs are uneasy as gold posts losses of nearly 30% over its highs. Oil investors wonder how their "$300 oil" could have possibly lost $45 per barrel in eight ...

From J. CHRISTOPH AMBERGER, ETF Investor,  12 Sep 2008

SPDR GLD ETF Unloads 79 Tons of Gold - Should Investors Follow Suit?

And so it begins. The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), the world's largest gold-backed exchange traded fund, reported that it sold more than 10 tons of bullion this past Tuesday. That corresponds to 1.7 percent of its total holdings. SPDR now holds "only" 631.2 ...

From J. CHRISTOPH AMBERGER, Seeking Alpha,  11 Sep 2008
Related Topics: NYSE

Gold Hammered, Oil Slicked: Is This the End of the Resource Boom?

Crude oil prices are a hurricane stand-down away from breaking through $100... and gold is about to hit $750! What should you do as the commodities boom crumbles? These days, I watch my stock portfolio with a sense of pain and excitement. Pain because ...

From J. CHRISTOPH AMBERGER, Seeking Alpha,  11 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Bill Miller,  OPEC

What To Do About Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae

Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) are being placed in a government conservatorship. What does that mean for traders on Monday? Contrarian investing means going against the trend -- buying low when everyone's selling and ...

From J. CHRISTOPH AMBERGER, Seeking Alpha,  8 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Freddie Mac,  Fannie Mae

Financial Roundtable: Four Stocks To Buy Now

Andrew, we have seen oil prices fall from $147 per barrel in July down to $110-111 in early August. We have seen gold plummet from $1,030 in March by as much as $230 per ounce. What do you make of this decline in commodities prices? Have we seen the ...

From J. CHRISTOPH AMBERGER, ETF Investor,  3 Sep 2008
Related Topics: OPEC,  Fannie Mae,  Freddie Mac,  Sasol Ltd.

Hard Money Inflation: Oil and Gold Continue to Plunge Downward

The day was off to a good start: Crude oil fell as much as 2 percent to $112.75 a barrel. Platinum plummeted $125 to $1,365 an ounce, its gravest intraday loss since Sept. 25, 2001. And gold fell as much as 4.2 percent to $772.98 an ounce. That’s a ...

From J. CHRISTOPH AMBERGER, ETF Investor,  17 Aug 2008

Crude Oil, Gold Prices Plummet: Time to Get Cautious About Dollar Bears

"Bad news from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline - an installation that may not normally draw much of your attention," writes Martin Vander Weyer in thye U.K.'s Telegraph, "but which is a throbbing artery of global energy supply, carrying vital oil ...

From J. CHRISTOPH AMBERGER, Seeking Alpha,  10 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  Ben Bernanke

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