Today, Josef Schachter and Jaime Carrasco commented about whether HIVE-X, FR-T, FNV-T, TXG-T, SRT.UN-T, RUF.U-X, AGI-T, VET-T, CR-T, BNP-T, BXE-T, CNQ-T, BBI-X, CCO-T, ESN-T, CPG-T, ENB-T, OBE-T, TWM-T, PEY-T, WRG-T, SGY-T, ECA-T, BIR-T, ESI-T, PONY-T, CFW-T, PEY-T, SDX-LN, SPE-T, TCW-T, IMO-T, ALA-T, TECK.B-T, PONY-T, TRP-T are stocks to buy or sell.
China denominating oil contracts in its currency is a game-changer, because of the convertibility to gold. History shows that whenever governments take on debts it cannot pay back, it resolves this by changing the currency reserve, which today is the US dollar, and in the 1930s was the UK pound. Now, it's the Chinese Yuan. This has massive consquences for the global economy. China thinks, all the infrastructure projects are in our backyard, so why do we need the dollar? It is re-monitizing all the gold it has taken from the west since 2008.
Price of Gold fixed to the U.S. dollar? He's working under the assumption that central banks have been manipulating the price of gold. Gold should be trading north of $2,000 and as high as $5,000, based on inflation and geopolitical events. If gold was this high, then investors wouldn't be running to the Dow as much. China has benefitted from this manipulation by buying gold in western and central banks. We should see a rise in gold's price in the future.
Junior Gold? At the recent PDAC he sensed a difference. All the producers he met are extremely well-positioned. Anyone producing now with low-cost production in quality areas has been making a lot of cash flow and balance sheets. The cost reductions of 2014-5 have since kicked in and those companies are now really benefitting. Now's the time for good stock-picking among all gold producers, including the juniors. His criteria: solid managment, low-cost production and geopolitical location of their properties.
With their big property anchored by grocery stores, does Slate stand a chance against rising interest rates and Amazon entering the grocery space? Consolidation (Amazon buying Whole Foods) is occuring which is an inflation play--the big food stores pass on inflation to consumers. (Also, good REITs are going private and leaving the market, which is a concern.) His firm has a buy signal on this.
The company’s production is 75% natural gas. Book value is $5.83 with a cash flow last year of $0.73. The price at time of interview was $1.83. In 2009, this stock went from $2.38 to $21.56 within two years. His one-year target is $7. (Analysts’ price target is 3.04$)