Silver prices have rebounded about 28% since the lows of late June, and are currently trading at around $23 an ounce.
This move was key for silver prices – it means the metal broke out above its 50-day moving average.
Barclays' technical analysts pointed out that last week was silver's best week since 2011, with a gain of 14.3%.
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There's been movement in crude oil prices in 2013 that investors should be watching…
Global oil prices diverged yesterday (Tuesday) as market factors both in the U.S. and abroad painted a very distinct picture for energy costs.
Options for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for September delivery fell $2.14 to settle at $104.96 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Now that the rig market for oil and gas projects is heating up again, it's time to invest where energy's big-money cycle actually begins.
After all, without a rig, a well is nothing more than a dot on a map.
That's why the oil field service (OFS) business always improves before the fortunes of field production companies.
But there's an even earlier link in this profit chain…
To pick the best natural gas stocks to play the natgas price rise, you need to look not just at company fundamentals, but one crucial factor: Where these companies' assets lie…
That's because companies with assets in Texas are booming, and will deliver some of the best gains ever seen by energy investors.
Texas is the historical center of the U.S. energy industry. Today it's a major producer of natural gas.
Joel D. Moxley, president of the Gas Processors Association, told the Houston Business Journal, "Booming is the only way to describe the natural gas industry in Texas."
Texas holds about 23% of the U.S. natural gas reserves and accounts for approximately 30% of current U.S. output.
Its present output is roughly 19.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. That means if ranked globally, Texas would rank third for natural gas production – behind Russia and the other 49 U.S. states.
One main area of focus for natural gas in the Lone Star state is the Eagle Ford Shale Formation. Production there nearly tripled between 2009 and 2012.
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If you want to know how to invest in a down market, we have two options for you today…
You see, Money MorningCapital Wave Strategist Shah Gilani has been called "the Reluctant Bull." Even though he's still in the market on the long side, he's watching the door – and you should be, too.
In the following segment, he speaks with FOX Business' Stuart Varney of "Varney & Co." about the just how far down the stock market can go, and where it might find support.
Even better, he gives two ways to play the downturn that could happen any day now.
If you want to play, you have to watch:
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One disturbing statistic says it all…
It appeared on Page 1 of The Wall Street Journal back on March 19, less than 24 hours away from the first day of spring, the season of hope…
Fifty-seven percent (57%) of U.S. workers have less than $25,000 in savings.
It's a troubling fact.
And to me, it's just nuts…
After all, America isn't just the land of opportunity and democratic freedoms. It's the single-greatest wealth machine in the history of the human race.
So why are so many Americans struggling right now?
Well, there's no doubt the Great Recession of 2008 cut a swath through a lot of people's savings. Millions lost their jobs and had to rob from their savings just to make ends meet. I sincerely hope that didn't happen to you.
But here's the truth…
Thursday, Aug. 22 marks the start of the annual Fed meeting at Jackson Hole, WY – although this one will be much different than those of years past…
Every year since 1981, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has invited a slew of economic luminaries to its annual symposium in tony Jackson Hole.
The Jackson Lake Lodge, nestled among two lakes on the Willow Flats that front the imposing Teton Range, can host central bankers from any one of the world's largest economies, as well as cutting-edge economic thinkers and theorists from global academia.
Global market- and bank-watchers look to the Fed meeting at Jackson Hole as a source of critical information regarding potential shifts in macroeconomic policy.
Investors look to the meeting to bring a healthy, if fleeting, shot in the arm to the markets and share prices. Nearly any unexpected remark or errant word coming from the proceedings has the ability to rock the markets.
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Perhaps lower summer trading volumes are leaving stocks more vulnerable to larger moves lately…
The stock market today fell 70 points to 15,010; the S&P lost nearly 10 points; the Nasdaq fell 12. This marks the Dow's fourth straight day of losses – the first four-day losing streak of 2013.
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Coming off the worst week of the year, and with the very real possibility of the Dow Jones dipping back below 15,000, the question on everyone's lips is "Where's the bottom?"
That's why Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald spoke on Monday with FOX Business' Charles Payne of "Varney & Co."about just how low the stock market can go.
Fitz-Gerald looks at the stock market's support and resistance levels, and gives us a good picture of what to expect in the week ahead – and much more. He looks ahead to the Fed's Jackson "Black" Hole summit, and speculates on when the Fed's reindeer games will run out of gas.
Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald joined KITCO News recently to share predictions on who will become the new Fed chief.
Since June, when U.S. President Barack Obama hinted that current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has stayed longer than he wanted to, three candidates for the new Fed chief have come out of the woodwork: Larry Summers, Janet Yellen, and Don Kohn.
Watch as Fitz-Gerald weighs in on the candidates, giving a rundown on what each would do if he or she inherited the Fed's significant powers. Find out what "disturbs" him about one candidate, who the "lightning rod" is, and which contender for the new Fed chief would be the best news for gold prices.
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