The commodities markets heated up as oil, natural gas and precious metals rallied during last week. This week several reports, speeches and publications will come to fruition including: U.S retail sales, China’s GDP for the first quarter, Janet Yellen’s speech,…
Gold bounced back during last week while silver remained nearly unchanged. In the forex market, the U.S dollar depreciated again against several leading currencies including Euro, Japanese Yen, and Aussie dollar. This trend may have also contributed to modest recovery…
Despite the recent tumble in shares of Silver Wheaton (NYSE: SLW) during the past month, they are still up by almost 13% since the beginning of the year. The decline in silver and gold prices was the main driving force…
In a recent interesting article in the Fool’s network, the author refers to the main advantages of investing in streaming and royalty companies such as Silver Wheaton (NYSE: SLW), Royal Gold (NASDAQ: RGLD) and Franco-Nevada (NYSE:FNV) over gold producers such…
Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) has recently sold its subsidiary’s midstream compression assets for roughly $520 million. This sale is on top of the other assets the company plans to sell this year, which are expected to generate around $650 million . Was…
The price of silver changed direction and rallied during last week. Is silver bound to recover anytime soon? Let’s examine the recent news that may affect silver and the silver ETFs. The modest recovery of silver has reflected in the…