Gold Miners

The leading gold mining stocks have plummeted lower since since February 29, 2012. At that time, the highly traded Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE: GDX) was trading around the $58.00 level. Yesterday, the GDX traded below the $50.00 area which is a sharp decline in such a short period of...

Last week, the price of silver formed a blow-off top, where the price peaked at $49.82 and then immediately plummeted on high volume. Silver futures opened Wednesday at $41.67, a drop of more than 16% from their peak. Clearly, there is an investment opportunity buried in here somewhere. These...

Even though physical gold prices have risen in the face of the today's S&P U.S. outlook, the companies that mine the metal have fallen hard. This gives investors a perfect opportunity to add the sector. Due to the miners' production cost structure (which comes with fixed expenses), these...

As most assets have been trending down over the past week or so, the commodity asset class has been hit particularly hard. But within this sector the miners have been absolutely demolished. Some analysts recently have been seeing gold miners shares trade at very high premiums to the metal itself...