It’s Time to Start Talking About Silver

While the price of silver typically tracks with the price of gold, the two do not correlate in lockstep. Thus, silver investors use the gold-to-silver ratio to assess silver’s position in the precious metals cycle. This ratio tracks how many ounces of silver is worth one ounce of gold. A declining ratio indicates that the price of silver is getting more expensive relative to gold, while an expanding ratio indicates that silver is getting cheaper. The narrowing ratio suggests that a bull market is in play while an expanding one suggests bear market territory.

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E.S.G. and the Purpose Driven Investment Movement

The world desperately seeks solutions to climate change, environmental degradation, waste management, and the scourge of plastics. The companies that successfully come up with cost-effective solutions will inevitably rise in the hierarchy of ESG investments. This will undoubtedly occur in conjunction with a noticeable rise in revenues and stock price. And by getting in on the ground floor, early investors have the potential to reap the greatest rewards.

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Sector Overview—Psychedelic Inspired Pharmaceuticals

In the past two decades, though, the FDA, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and other governments’ regulators have been quietly easing barriers to research, and scientists are once again finding therapeutic uses for the drugs. These findings are leading to increasing numbers of clinical drug trials that could help bring these psychedelics to market as legal pharmaceutical drugs.

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Gold: Reading Between the Lines

The two most powerful factors that will drive share price increases for small cap and microcap mining companies are a decline in gold reserves and lack of new gold discoveries. This is a result in part to the recent bear market in gold, which led to a decrease in exploration budgets. While these two factors represent a potential millstone to major producers they provide opportunity to the juniors.

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