Precious metals, yes AU and AG

My favorite topic aside from Fantasy Sports ...

Stocks I am looking at:

Cartaway
Arequipa Resources
Francisco Gold
Kinross
Barrick
Newmont

Primarily gold and silver .. ..

i thought fcx was copper

regardless...wiz you're better off buying ther metal itself instead of a company...if you truly want to play the metal

Thanks KOAJ!

reason being...its not a pure play on the metal, its a play on the company who works with metal.

what if the miners go on strike? metal price stays the same or goes up and your company's stock goes down

Metals are moving up again, after there summer hibernation.

gold shooting up today

its a nice way to short the dollar without actually doing it

 I do not pretend to be a copper expert.The demand for copper has been robust primarily due to construction booms in the US and of course in China. Copper will undoubtedly slow in price as construction slows in the US, but I would not discount at all the boom in construction throughout the far east.
 Copper has had a strong run up, so easing of it should be expected...metals companies in general are consolidating, and if yours are among the buy list of the giants like BHP or RIO, you might find you might come out fine. I certainly would not want all my portfolio in any one industry, but neither would I hastily toss out copper or any other industrial metal  because the US is slowing. The demand from China alone is truly staggering.GL.

 And a further note that mentions dear old Alan Greenspan...

Before today, the metal had fallen 13 percent since reaching an 11-month high of $3.807 a pound on May 4. Economists including Alan Greenspan have said they follow the copper price as a measure of future growth. The metal, used in buildings, appliances and cars, had almost quadrupled in the past four years during a global expansion.

Gains in copper stockpiles are a sign of falling demand, Smith of T&K Futures said. Inventories monitored by the London Metal Exchange were unchanged at 137,775 metric tons today. They have surged 32 percent in the past four weeks.

On the LME, copper for delivery in three months dropped $110, or 1.5 percent, to $7,190 a metric ton ($3.26 a pound). The metal rose to a record $8,800 a ton in May 2006.

You may wish to review a copper article and analysis on mineweb.net, just search for copper...detailed article on companies and prices

Thanks a lot for the info

it's definitely better to have it IN YOUR OWN HAND

instead of some company HOLDING for you

I guess I was lucky.  

wiz - not luck...a good play

all commodites are pretty good right now, especially precious metals and anything that can be used "in place of the dollar" which our administration and Fed continue to allow to be pummeled

-gold street tracks etf
-silver
-copper
-oil

you can see that 13 wk and short bond rates are rising...people are selling those and either getting back into equities with high div yields (global large caps higher yield that Tbills) or commodities

Gotta think everyone wants out of the USD after that rate cut, which means head to commodities and gold among other things.

 Anyone want to guess how ong the equity pop lasts from this move? I have a feeling it is will be like the final shot after an evening of drinking...and then, the slow realization that it was in fact, one shot too many.

Thanks KOAJ, for two quarters of the last two years, I thought I was losing my mind speaking about GOLD.  Now that we are back (me, myself, and I), I am thinking along the terms of, when will Gold correct or drop, and by how much, there will have to be a dip, no doubt, and will it EVER not be valued as an asset in the world economy and currency.  Granted it's not the backing of any currency that I know of nowadays, but it's intrinsic value continues to grow.  Looking for an opportunity to buy more since TBills are shizzy again. I suspect Silver, will follow GOLD, and Silver will be the poor man's GOLD.  Yes I buried some in the backyard, I am looking to bury more.  LOL  =)

Now looking at what I think a decent spot price for both would be, and will dig another hole, just need to remember between these beers, to chart a treasure map.  Thanks for your input and acknowledgment.