 November 20th, 2011  Category: Canadian Stocks, Gold, Investing, Opinion This post is written by Richard (Rick) Mills, editor of Ahead of the Herd.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
Today I’m talking with Rock Lefrancois, P.Geo., President and Chief Operating Officer for NioGold Mining Corp TSX.V – NOX
Rick: Rock can you start
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 November 14th, 2011  Category: Investing, Market Analysis, Oil, Opinion According to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) 2011 World Energy Outlook report, world demand for energy is set to increase 40% by 2035. China alone will account for 30% of demand growth consolidating its position as the world’s largest energy consumer. In 2035, the share of fossil fuels is expected to drop slightly from 81%
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 October 12th, 2011  Category: Canadian Stocks, Investing, Oil, Opinion First, let’s make one thing clear here, we SKW shareholders got shafted and there’s no way this fact can be embellished. What happened to Disney movie endings where they live happily forever after? Well it looks like it takes more than assets to make us look attractive enough for a prince and the element we
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My friend and colleague Keith Schaefer, editor of the Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin, recently published a 2 part series on Argentina that I highly recommend (written by yours truly). Argentina has a mature petroleum industry yet its proven basins are underexplored and underexploited. While the country’s oil and gas shale potential is truly massive, this play
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 September 22nd, 2011  Category: Opinion, Real Estate The following is a guest post by bills.com.
Refinancing your home is essentially a great tool to restructure your debt (mortgage) or debts (mortgage + other loans) into 1 new mortgage with a lower interest rate. The monthly savings can be substantial in most cases thanks to rock bottom rates. However, in other cases you
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 September 21st, 2011  Category: Investing, Market Analysis, Oil My bias towards oil and gas investments is really obvious when you look at my portfolio. Being in this sector is not only a question of personal preference; it is a solid investment case for the future. It is a case confirmed yet again by the EIA (US Energy Information Administration) which released a report
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 August 10th, 2011  Category: Investing, Market Analysis, Opinion With the federal reserves’ pledge to keep interest rates low until mid-2013, the cordon has closed around Canadian interest rates for the next 12 months in my opinion. Mark Carney, the governor of Bank of Canada, will have no choice but to keep his rates where they are now for longer than
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 August 3rd, 2011  Category: Investing, Market Analysis, Opinion Even before the debt deal got to the president for signature, it was already so old news that the market was selling off on the next worry in line. I mean come on, we all knew it was just not imaginable for a government to trigger a new recession willingly and it’s not like it
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I came across an interesting article recently where Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan Alliance, forecasts the number of EV vehicles sold in 2020 to comprise 10%. It turns out that this is the most optimistic prediction there is out there right now on EV take rates. That means 90% of global car sales
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 June 27th, 2011  Category: Investing, Natural Gas, Oil The Fraser Institute, an independent Canadian public policy research and educational organization, released its Global Petroleum Survey 2011 which helps measure and rank the investment climate of oil and gas producing regions around the world. The results are based on the opinions of senior executives and managers on a range of issues, including royalties and
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