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China Plans Oil Purchases From Iran Using Gold
Ben Mountifield, May 1st, 2012
On 31 December last year the US attempted to curtail Iranian nuclear ambitions by imposing sanctions which penalize any country that buys oil from Iran, or does business with its central bank. These sanctions were approved by EU foreign ministers on 23 January, and shortly afterwards the Society for Worldwide
Posted in Blog, Energy, Featured, News, Precious Metals
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Thorium: The Future Of Nuclear Power – Part II
Ben Mountifield, April 10th, 2012
Nuclear Waste One of the main objections to nuclear energy stems from the waste that it generates. To run today’s typical 1 gigawatt light water reactor for one year requires 250 tonnes of uranium and you are left with 35 tonnes of fission products and 0.3 tonnes of plutonium which
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They Are Already High But Oil Prices Will Get Higher, Possibly Much Higher
Ben Mountifield, April 3rd, 2012
At the start of October 2011 West Test Intermediate crude (WTI) was trading at $76.25. By 1 March 2012 the price of oil had reached a peak of $110.55, a rise of nearly 45%. Since then the price has dropped to around $105, however thanks to tight supply, rising global
Posted in Blog, Commodities, Energy, Featured, Technical Analysis, Ways to bet
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Profiting From The Coming Uranium Supply Crunch
Ben Mountifield, March 16th, 2012
The coming supply crunch There are approximately 392 operating nuclear power plants worldwide which provide around 15% of the world’s electricity. These operational reactors require a total of 152 million pounds of uranium each year. However, current annual production of uranium is only 118 million pounds. The shortfall is being
Posted in Blog, Commodities, Energy, Featured, Stocks, Tips, Ways to bet
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A Company That’s Profiting From Cheap Natural Gas
Ben Mountifield, January 27th, 2012
The price of North American natural gas has fallen from an all-time high of $15.37 per million British Thermal Units (BTUs) in December 2005, to just $2.67 today. A 5 Year Weekly Chart of Natural Gas Chart courtesy of barchart.com The fall in price is primarily down to an increase
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Bernanke’s Report Card: ‘Must Try Harder!’
Ben Mountifield, December 20th, 2011
When Ben Bernanke became Chairman of the Federal Reserve (the US central bank) on 1 February 2006, oil was at $58, it is now $94.80. The S&P 500 was at 1,264, it’s now at 1,205. Gold was at $480 an ounce, it’s now at $1,602. The official unemployment rate in
Posted in Blog, Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Energy, Monetary Policy, Precious Metals, Stocks
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Great Depression 2.0 – A Very Dangerous Game Of Chicken
Ben Mountifield, December 16th, 2011
There is a scene in the film Wall Street in which the main character Bud Fox, played by Charlie Sheen, is about to be carted away by the Feds for insider dealing, and a colleague of his comes over for a quiet word. He says “Man looks in the abyss,
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Huge Potential Decline For US Dollar Bodes Well For Risk Assets
Ben Mountifield, December 5th, 2011
The fact that the US Dollar Index has formed a potentially bearish medium-term double top bodes well for commodity prices as well as other US Dollar denominated assets such as gold and US equities. As this chart shows, the US Dollar Index has formed a potentially bearish technical pattern known
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