Sean Brodrick - The natural resources analyst for MoneyandMarkets.com, and he trots the globe to bring you the best in gold, silver, oil and other commodity stocks.

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Going to Heck in a Handbasket, With Music Video

by Sean Brodrick on February 6, 2009

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Here’s some eye ear candy — a video of melodies derived from StockCharts, using the Microsoft Songsmith tool.  These charts are familiar names …

If you’re on the road to ruin, at least you can have a melody to take you there.
Robert Reich has a good column today:  Playing Politics While the Economy Burns.
Are things getting [...]

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Howe Street Interview and Gold Heads Higher Again

by Sean Brodrick on February 5, 2009

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Here’s my latest interview with HoweStreet.com: http://tinyurl.com/dmmx3o. As usual, Phil and I have a lot of fun.
Here’s a grim analysis of the problems we face:  “By now, it’s clear to everyone that we have inherited an economic crisis as deep and dire as any since the days of the Great Depression.”
That’s not me saying that, [...]

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Charts of Interest

by Sean Brodrick on February 4, 2009

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Here are some charts from a special report I sent to my subscribers today …
First, a chart showing how gold has been acting against the euro and the U.S. dollar. Note how gold used to track the euro, and is now tracking the greenback?

Now for a chart showing states’ projected budget shortfalls.  Is this going [...]

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Will January Haunt Us?

by Sean Brodrick on February 2, 2009

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The babbling heads are atwittter with the terrible statistics on January — the Dow closed down 8.8% for the month and the S&P dropped 8.75%.  And if you measure from January 2nd (first trading day of the New Year) and not December 31st, the Dow dropped 11.4% and the S&P 500 shed 11.3%.
The Wall Street standard is that [...]

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Chart of the ever-lovin’ day …

This chart is just the beginning of the new report I just sent to my Red-Hot Global Small-Caps subscribers, “3 Red-Hot Picks From Vancouver.”  If you’re a subscriber, look in your in-box.  If you’re not a subscriber, you can change that pretty quickly and act on these three recommendations immediately: click [...]

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I’m busy getting ready for my trip to Vancouver and the 2009 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference this weekend.  So I’ll keep this brief.
First, a chart of Agnico-Eagle Mines (: ).  This will be of interest to my Red-Hot Global Small-Caps subscribers as well as anyone who bought by “Golden Parachute for 2009″ report …

 Gold [...]

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Gold Near Make-or-Break Point

by Sean Brodrick on January 22, 2009

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The gold stock I recently recommended in Red-Hot Global Small Caps is doing well, but be careful.  I’m watching gold like a hawk as it pushes up against overhead resistance …

Looking at a weekly chart, we can see that gold is still in a downtrend.  It needs to break out of that downtrend for gold [...]

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Momentous Day

by Sean Brodrick on January 20, 2009

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Great speech by President Obama today. See how he addressed the core crises facing America today …
“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the [...]

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Oil Drop — Quicker Than I Thought

by Sean Brodrick on January 15, 2009

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I thought we were getting to $33 oil, I just didn’t think it would happen so fast.

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The Greenback versus Gold and the Euro

by Sean Brodrick on January 12, 2009

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Here’s a chart of the U.S. dollar versus g0ld and the euro.

As you can see, when the dollar goes up, gold and the euro usually go down

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