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Where are smart investors looking for value right now?
Well, one place they are looking is the mining sector. Why? Because mining stocks ? especially the juniors ? are being devalued due to the continuing price decline of precious metals like gold.
The value of gold has risen to over $1,600 an ounce. A lot of that value is not reflected in into the price of some mining stocks.
Don?t believe me? Check out these 3 resources about the mining sector to whet your appetite.
In a recent?interview broadcast on 28 February2013, Rick Rule explains his view on the junior miners. In short Rule states that the natural resource sector is undergoing a period of extreme unpopularity with the general investing public.
Listen to the 10 minute interview and you will quickly understand Rule?s conviction in the junior miners.
If you are not accustomed to valuing junior miners then apart from classic value investing criteria, you need to focus your research on:
Today I build and ran a screener in ADVFN taking the closing prices from Friday 1 March looking for undervalued miners, junior or otherwise, that are domiciled in Canada and listed on The Toronto Stock Exchange. ADR?s were excluded.
It threw up A LOT of garbage.
Out of the 74 names that I managed to whittle it down to, there are a handful of very interesting, beaten up and clearly undervalued companies that merit further research using the techniques described ? classic value investing criteria and sector specific considerations.
Here is a 16 year price chart of one of them Iamgold (IMG) highlighting the low price it made in the fourth quarter of 2008:
And here is a 5 year price chart of the same stock, again highlighting the low price it made measured on a weekly basis of 3.37 (CAD):
Not quite a junior miner with a market cap of $2.5billion
Still, its useful to have access to a screener in order to assist with the valuation process. For example you could screen for miners that are trading at or below their tangible book value per share with a debt to equity ratio of 1 or below.
To focus on the juniors and with a bit of tweaking, ADVFN can return results for miners listed on TSX Venture Exchange.
Bargains can also be found on Toronto?s main exchange from amongst the miners. There really are no hard and fast rules so long as you are using value orientated criteria for your screeners.
This week I?ll be sharing the results of deeper analysis from the list of 74 miners via the newsletter. Its free
Thank you for taking the time out to read today?s post and please always do your own due diligence before even considering adding a new position to your portfolio.
All the best
-David
Disclosure: I do not own any stocks mentioned in this article and neither am I compensated by any company mentioned in this article to publish information on their behalf. I am and always will be independent.
Source: http://sharesandstockmarkets.com/junior-miners/
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In this 2012 file photo, the liquefied natural gas carrier OB River moves through ice in the Arctic. A new study says melting ice there will open more routes to shipping.
By John Roach, Contributing Writer, NBC News
By the middle of this century, thanks to climate change, anyone with a light icebreaker can spend their Septembers going anywhere they want in the Arctic Ocean, including straight over the North Pole, according to a new study.
Ordinary vessels, which account for more than 99 percent of shipping traffic, could easily navigate the Northern Sea Route along the Russian coastline and, in some years, even find a route through the fabled Northwest Passage.
"That?s kind of crazy and, frankly, a little bit worrisome,"?Laurence C. Smith, a geographer and sea ice expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, told NBC News. "It is not like these will be open blue seas and safe or open year round."
Nevertheless, the temptation is likely to prove irresistible to some shipping companies and adventurous tourists, which opens up new concerns about search and rescue infrastructure, the environmental impact from increased shipping traffic and the potential for oil spills, among other issues.
Smith and graduate student?Scott Stephenson?used the output of climate models to chart the fastest, most efficient, and realistic routes through the Arctic for different classes of ships that will become possible as more sea ice disappears each summer.?
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The fastest navigation routes for ships seeking to cross the Arctic Ocean by mid-century include the Northwest Passage (on the left) and over the North Pole (center), in addition to the Northern Sea Route (on the right).
New shipping routes through the Arctic can shave weeks off voyages between Europe and Asia and are often discussed as an upside to global warming. Most of the?attention has focused on the Northern Sea Route, which is controlled by the Russians and requires expensive sea escorts to use.
The new findings, published today in the?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicate shipping companies willing to invest in light icebreaker technology, known as Polar Class 6 vessels, can avoid those fees by going over the North Pole or through the Northwest Passage.?
Regular ships, too, will be able to navigate at least some of these routes unescorted. And, "it doesn?t matter whether we get serious about curbing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions or not," Smith said. "Either way, the result is the same. The ice will thin sufficiently."
But just because the routes are opening up, doesn?t necessarily mean shipping companies will race to take advantage, according to?Lawson Brigham, a professor of geography and Arctic policy at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.?
He said the most likely users of the expanded shipping access are bulk cargo carriers hauling commodities such as oil and gas and hard minerals including nickel and zinc ??the type of ships already plying the Russian coastline.?
"It is the connection of natural resources to global markets that today and in the future is driving (Arctic) marine traffic," Brigham, who chaired the?Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment?for the Arctic Council, told NBC News.
Container ships of the sort that haul flat-screen TVs, iPhones, and IKEA furniture from factories in China to the U.S. and Europe are less likely to ply the new routes given the vagaries of ice and weather, which can wreak havoc on travel times for ships that must meet tight delivery schedules.
"It is possible" container ships would take the Northern Sea Route, Brigham said, "but the economics haven?t been worked out yet."
In addition to the economics of shipping, there are a host of development and political considerations the opening of these routes bring to the fore, according to Smith.?
To start, there?s little infrastructure in place for search and rescue in the Arctic. Then there?re issues about whether the Northwest Passage is an international strait, as the U.S. maintains, or falls under Canada?s sovereignty as an internal domestic waterway.?
"At the moment, the U.S. and Canada have a tacit agree-to-disagree policy on this because it doesn?t matter," Smith said. "But it could. The study suggests this needs to be resolved."
What?s more, the U.S. has yet to ratify the?United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a treaty that establishes international laws to govern the maritime rights of countries. If signed, the U.S. could claim sovereignty over some of the newly opened shipping lanes.
As these issues are sorted out ? and Brigham said this study should help apply pressure to do so ? increased access to shipping will almost certainly increase natural resource extraction in the Arctic.
"Whether the open access and greater shipping is a benefit to the world is an open book," he said. "We are going to?produce even more oil and gas?and carry it to the world and just enhance the (greenhouse gas) emissions. But the coastal states, all of us, want to develop our oil and gas."
John Roach is a contributing writer to NBC News. To learn more about him, check out his?website.?
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This summer Paris will start dimming its streetlights, though major landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, will not be affected.
Mike Hewitt/Getty ImagesThis summer Paris will start dimming its streetlights, though major landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, will not be affected.
Mike Hewitt/Getty ImagesBright lights are part of a city's ecosystem. Think of Times Square or the Las Vegas Strip or right outside your bedroom window.
Electric lighting is ubiquitous in most urban and suburban neighborhoods. It's something most people take for granted, but appreciate, since it feels like well-lit streets keep us safer. But what if all this wattage is actually causing harm?
"We're getting brighter and brighter and brighter," warns Paul Bogard, author of the upcoming book, End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light.
Bogard says the developed world's desire to light up the night has gotten out of control.
"Things like gas stations and parking lots are lit now 10 times as bright as they were just 20 years ago," Bogard tells Celeste Headlee, host of weekends on All Things Considered. "It has everything to do with marketing, really. The gas station on the corner has figured out that if they turn up the lights, more people will be attracted to those lights."
And, Bogard says, all that light is having some unintended consequences. For one, it affects our sleeping patterns, he says.
Others say the effects of light pollution are worse.
Richard Stevens, an epidemiologist at the University of Connecticut Health Center, was one of the first to make the connection between bright, artificial light and breast cancer. Stevens' research found that artificial light can disrupt our body clock ? and affect our production of melatonin.
"We know for sure that the lighting in the modern world can disrupt our circadian rhythms, and that cannot be good," Stevens tells Headlee.
Cities such as Santa Rosa, Calif., and Brainerd, Minn., are turning off a certain number of streetlights. Even Paris seems willing to cut down on its illumination to reduce light pollution.
The French Environment Ministry recently announced that starting this summer, office buildings and storefronts will have to turn off artificial lights between the hours of 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. Major landmarks like the Eiffel Tower will continue to be lit.
Yet Bogard says he hopes Paris will lead a lighting revolution.
"The fact that Paris, the city of lights, is choosing to control their use of light at night is fantastic, and can serve as a model for cities all over the world," he said.
Perhaps, someday soon, we'll get off the subway, look up at the dark city sky, and see the stars of the Milky Way again.
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The stale old stock pickers? debate about whether to bet on the right jockey or the right horse might leave out the most important long-term factor for building a diversified portfolio?you just might do better betting on the right track.
In other words, and for whatever reasons, it might be true that highest amount of value (best mix of return and risk) might come not from the choice of which CEO is in charge or which sector the company works in, but rather on the policy environment in which the companies are forced to operate.
Over time these differences in national policy add up to a very significant difference in stock market performance.
I asked a colleague of mine, Ted Lucas at Lattice Strategies, to run an experiment which looks at a well-diversified portfolio over the past 14 years (the time period during which a wide array of international country data is available) and to tell me how country selection performance stacked up against company selection performance.
He and his crack team (which includes not only financial analysts but also an astrophysicist named Kirsten) created a heuristic to test that hypothesis and what they found is extraordinary.
Comparing six scenarios from 1989 to last fall revealed the relative importance of country domicile compared to company sector or specific company as a source of performance. Lattice Strategies compared portfolios consisting of: a range of country stock indices weighted by capitalization; the same countries weighted equally, a broad range of countries? stock weighted by sector; the S&P 500, the S&P 500 weighted by sectors and the S&P 500 with each stock weighted equally.
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