If the U.S.A. is a corporation traded on the stock exchange you wouldn’t want to buy its shares, says a report from a world leading venture capital firm. The company is bloated, inefficient maxed out on debts and not productive enough. But there are ways to turn the company around.

Gold moves back and forth close to its previous tops, while silver moves higher and mining stocks are visibly below their previous highs. Is this bullish bearish and - most of all - where do precious metals go from here?! This week's update includes thorough comments regarding the current situation in the sector. Moreover, two of our indicators - SP Gold Stock Extreme indicators have just flashed a signal. Of course, the key is interpretation, and thus we provide a separated section dedicated to this phenomenon.

In other news, the dollar appears to be breaking below its long-term support line while stocks trade sideways. What are the implications for Gold & Silver Investors? What influence might the decline of the USD have on gold and silver? This is also one of the areas that we cover this week. Additionally, the latest report includes our top gold & silver junior rankings - one of our previous picks is currently 336% higher than it was in September 2010.

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Market Alert sent on March 2nd 2011

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It’s only two months into the New Year and already we have had several attempted revolutions in the Middle East with two successful and another on the brink. All this has major ramifications for the price of oil, precious metals and currencies as we have seen in this week’s market action.

The USD Index declined, but at this point the implications for precious metals Investors are not really important. The opposite is the case with the general stock market and the current volatile action, as the way things play out here, could heavily impact silver, and thus also other parts of the precious metals sector. That's why we explain this situation in detail by featuring S&P 500 Index, Dow Jones Transportation Average (note the huge volume in the latter), and the financial sector.

Gold, silver and mining stocks moved sharply lower recently, but what really changed? In addition to providing you with our assessment of this week's price action (also from the non-USD perspective), we discuss mining stocks performance relative to other stocks, and price of gold from the Australian perspective.

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Message sent on February 22nd, 2011

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's been almost a month since we've posted our latest mid-week update (sent/posted ahead of schedule; featuring charts) in which we suggested using speculative capital to bet on higher precious metals prices, and here we go again, as we once again believe that desperate times call for desperate measures.

The markets in the US have been closed today, but based on Kitco's internal gold/silver prices we might infer that silver has just moved to new highs and gold moved much higher as well. Consequently, unless the situation is just as extreme tomorrow but in the opposite direction (not likely), we're going to see much higher prices of GLD and SLV ETFs along with rising values of mining stocks. Silver moved over $1 higher today, so the situation is becoming critical, as these types of rallies usually take place close to the end of a rally. Are we there yet?

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