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With gold up over $1,000.00 per ounce and with many pundits looking for much higher prices into 2010 and beyond, it has been a bit of a wonder where the gold mergers have been.  This morning came an...
If there was a single trading event for investors, traders, and speculators from early October to early December, it was not stocks and was not bonds.  It was not even the bet against the US...
It looks like the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) is about to get some new competition, albeit far a far smaller trading vehicle.  A F-1 filing at the SEC was made today by Sprott Physical Gold Trust,...
CSG Systems International Inc. (NASDAQ: CSGS) rose nearly 19% to a yearly high of $19.41 after the billing service provider announced that it has extended its contract to provide customer and billing...
A broker noted something about this yesterday as a gold bug, and frankly it seemed far-fetched considering the size of the move we have already seen in recent weeks and months.  But the talk was...
Hirschfeld Industries, Inc. filed after the close on Monday to come public via an initial public offering of up to $150,000,000 in equity being sold via the New York Stock Exchange under the stock...
Tickerspy’s Russian Stock and ADR Index is up close to 5% as the market goes into its close.  Among the biggest movers was LUKOIL (OTC: LUKOY), an oil and gas company that was up over 6.5% today....
Yesterday’s surprise move from India that sent gold through the roof to almost $1,085.00 per ounce was a game changing event in gold.  Many technical analysts and chartists were looking for, or at...
The dollar is still losing its luster as the foreign reserve currency of choice. India has just bought 200 tons of gold from the IMF at $1,045 an ounce which is close to a recent record high of...
It seems that there is no caution in all the pending Initial Public Offerings coming to market.  Cloud Peak Energy, Inc. is raising the amount targeted for its capital raise of up to $650 million...
This week marks the launch of two new exchange traded funds, both of which intend to offer investors a direct hedge against inflation.  IndexIQ introduced the IQ CPI Inflation Hedged ETF (NYSE: CPI)...
Sometimes special dividends make sense, and sometimes they do not.  Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) traded lower most of the trading day after the fertilizer and potash giant declared a special cash dividend...
CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE: CF) rallied over 4% to a yearly high of $95.06 after Agrium Inc. announced that it had extened its offer to acquire CF Industries holding for $40 in cash and a share...
An initial public offering filing has been made by a company called Golden Minerals Company, although we would rate this as a quasi-IPO that looks more like a secondary offering and not a full blown...
Aluminum giant and Dow Jones Industrial Average component Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) has just kicked off earnings season for the Q3-2009 period.  Shares were halted ahead of the earnings report.  The...