It’s Still a Bear Market, But Not in Gold Stocks
The top stocks in this market are large-cap, higher-dividend-paying companies with strong international operations. For speculators, gold stocks remain some of the best stocks in this stock market. The big companies have the cash and the economies of scale (to withstand the shocks to fundamentals and the stock market) and gold stocks have some of the best potential for capital gains, because these are the companies that are generating the most growth. The days of Internet stock market high flyers and software monopolies are over. You can trade the stock market, the futures market or you can invest in the real economy. And I’m not talking mom and pop shops on Main Street—I’m talking about the only real thing that counts in today’s global economy, and that’s natural resources.
The commodity price cycle and gold stocks have been experiencing the same price correction as the stock market. But, any reasonable economic analysis that, with so much debt in the world and governments trying to grow their economies with reduced interest rates and printing money, the next major reckoning is about to be unleashed. We’re already seeing core inflation rates going up around the world and, as economies recover; there will be growing scarcity in a basket of raw materials. This is why gold stocks are poised for another major upward price trend—the fundamentals for the spot price of gold are actually getting better.
You might not think about it, but the stock market is still in a long-term bear market. I don’t care what the definition of a bear market is; the stock market is still below its value in early 2000—that to me is a bear market. But what have come alive during the last 11 years are commodities and specifically the prices of gold and gold stocks. With all the risks around the world, including the European debt crisis, I don’t see the price of gold as being expensive at all. In fact, it isn’t as adjusted for inflation.
This is why I’m so bullish on precious metals, gold stocks in particular, and agriculture. All the debt and increasing money supplies will come back to haunt the global economy in the form of inflation. What economic growth we can generate now might just evaporate under the auspices of central banks trying to contain the very inflation that they created. That’s why gold stocks are sitting pretty. They already have the cash, the fundamentals and the growing demand for their commodity. It’s a new upward price cycle that’s about to begin.
Gold stocks are like any other stock market sector—they trade as a group. Most investors tend to associate their gold investments apart from their main stock market portfolio. I can’t predict where the spot price of gold is going to go, but all the global policy action that’s been going on since the subprime mortgage meltdown leads me believe that gold stocks will be the stock market’s major outperforming sector over the next several years.
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