This Week on StockHouse July 16 to 19

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Rumours powered a steep climb for Canadian rail stocks on Thursday. Sean Mason had details of investor reaction in his Buzz on the BullBoards (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19976) column.

While Cameco’s shares (NYSE: CCJ; TSX: T.CCO) slid this week after the disclosure of the large short interest in the stock, the uranium bull market is continuing unabated, according to James Dines. The “original uranium bug” gave an interview (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19977 ) to Uranium Report.

The conditions that have stalled gold prices (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19979 ) in comparison to the U.S. dollar are beginning to change, argued Greg Silberman.

The global boom in commodity prices has been driven by inflation (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19969 ), not real growth, said Steven Saville, and the best way to understand this fact is to view charts for the markets and metals against unaltered CPI prices.

Joe Nicholson, read the gold and silver charts (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19967 ), and the charts looked good, at least in the long term.

Gryphon Gold’s (TSX: T.GGN) recent Nevada property acquisition (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19961 ) is good for the company, opined Danny Deadlock.

IPO deal news has been thin, but Jon Ogg wrote that one of the most interesting offerings this year is still pending: the spinoff of the online games unit (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19975 ) from China Games Corp.

Traders need to be open minded, wrote Don Rodgers, and he detailed how bias (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19972 ) could sink a complicated trade in Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) shares.

When you’re looking for some reading material (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19981) for the beach or the cottage this summer, you may want to consider some of the titles noted by Nancy Zambell in her recommendations for an investor’s bookshelf.

John J. De Goey warned investors to be wary of advisors who claim to be able to forecast (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19983 ) market trends.

How do spousal RRSPs work, and why should anyone bother to arrange for one? Well, the tax savings (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19974 ) for a start, said Kevin Cork.