Oil and gold: Are you ready for the next move?
刚刚转完前面那篇关于危机的文章,晚上就收到Forbes的Newsletter,是他们一个投资咨询团队,推介他们今明两年投资的建议。其中,重要的是四点:
#1 - Buy some energy stocks.
#2 - Don’t invest in bonds.
#3 - Beware of the stock market.
The 4th investment opportunity is gold.
针对每一个建议,有简短的分析和推介订阅系列newsletter的文字,他的逻辑是:
美元正在贬值,而美元贬值就会导致: 原油价格上升、股市下跌、基金收益降低、利率调高、黄金价格会升高。
我摘录出了所有的分析,有兴趣的可以点击看全文。
There are four major opportunities concerning crude oil, gold, stocks, and bonds that will make and break millionaires during the next 24 months.
Buy oil? A ridiculous idea?
Dear Investor:
A few years ago when oil was trading at $16.00 to $20.00 a barrel, I pointed out the ground floor investment opportunity developing in oil. We openly recommended Enerplus Resources (ERF-NYSE) in our publications. It was trading at $17.00 or less then and was paying a dividend of about 1.25% - MONTHLY. That amounted to 15% a year.
Opportunity #1 - Buy some energy stocks.
The first of four major opportunities you will encounter in the next six months - which is also the biggest money making opportunity I have seen since the stock market made its lows in 1982 - is to buy some energy stocks. You may be skeptical about this - as investors were when we told them to “mortgage the house and buy stocks” in the spring of 1982. Nevertheless, here it is.
Oil and natural gas are on their way to significantly higher levels. You can still buy select oil and gas producers that pay 12% to 14% dividends - and they pay monthly. It doesn’t get better than that. There are many reasons to buy oil and gas. Unrest continues to mount in the Middle East, and the so-called terror premium in crude prices will remain until we see at least three years of peace in the fertile crescent. I think that will be a long time coming.
There is a shortfall between supply and demand, and this shortfall is growing. World demand increased 2.5 million barrels a day over the last year due to increased demand in the U.S. and Asia. India and China are industrializing at a feverish pace, and their energy appetite is increasing exponentially. On the other hand, global production is very close to a peak, and there is no “excess” production capacity left. We are at the point where the rubber hits the road, and the only rationing mechanism for who gets the available supply will be higher prices.
The “GUT” of the matter.
There is a “grand unified thread,” if you will, that ties together each of the four opportunities facing you. This common factor is the weakness in the U.S. dollar. As the dollar falls, the price of crude oil will rise. As the dollar falls, our dividends on Canadian energy stocks will rise in U.S. dollar terms. As the dollar falls, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq will decline. As the dollar falls, bonds will fall and interest rates will rise. As the dollar falls, the third great bull market in precious metals will accelerate.
There are those who believe that the Fed’s new stance toward higher interest rates will push the dollar higher. In fact, higher rates will punish the economy and will increase the trade deficit and the federal deficit. Higher interest rates will be very costly for both consumers and the government, and they will not help the dollar.
The inflation genie is out of its bottle again. Crude oil prices reflect that, and the price of energy is a factor in the price of everything you buy. Everything has to be shipped, and wholesale suppliers are already beginning to add fuel surcharges to their invoices. This cost gets passed on to the final buyer. Forget the CPI. It is simply a lie. You know what’s happening to the cost of your food, gasoline, home heating, insurance, medical expenses, etc. You know prices are rising a good deal more than the government’s official rate of 2.5%.
The basic reason is the falling value of the dollar. Until short term interest rates rise at a pace as fast as inflation and to a level at least as high as the real rate of inflation, the dollar will remain under pressure. My ultimate downside target is to see the U.S. dollar index (now at 90.00) fall to 60.00. This may end up being optimistic.
You can still make a profit in this rising inflation/falling dollar era, but you will have to change some of your thinking. The falling dollar and rising interest rates are bad for bonds. It is tough to argue against that.
In 1998 when 30-year Treasuries were paying 9%, I made the forecast that long term rates would fall to 4%. It was a little like my forecast for higher stock prices in the spring of 1982. I didn’t run into many believers. However, in June of 2003, the long bond yield fell to a low of 4.32%. My outlook for the future is different now. My current forecast is to see long term rates move over 8% during the next 24 months.
Opportunity #2 - Don’t invest in bonds.
What sort of opportunity is that, you say? It is an opportunity to save yourself from losses and find yourself with money invested which is paying sub par returns and falling in value. If you want liquidity, put it in 3-month T-bills. Yes, at 1.25%. Don’t worry. As the Fed institutes their “measured” rate hikes, your Tbills will pay a bit more each time you roll them over. I think you will be very pleased every three months as you get paid a little more and the bond investors get paid a little less.
You can trade bonds if that is something you are good at, but don’t make any long term investments in bonds.
Opportunity #3 - Beware of the stock market.
I apologize. This is another negative opportunity, but it’s no less important than the advice to stay out of bonds. The stock market is at the end of a distribution phase following its cyclical rally from the lows in October 2002. With the exception of a few select issues which we will point out, it is time to take profits in stocks.
A secular (long term) bear market began in the spring of 2000 after the Nasdaq touched the 5,000 level. The market advance from lows in October 2002 until January 2004 was a cyclical bull market within the longer term secular bear market.
That cyclical rally was, indeed, a nice respite from the bear, but we are not in a new bull market. In fact, we are now at the beginning of the second leg in the secular bear market that began in the early months of 2000. Subscribe for six months or more and I will send you our report “The Long Cycle.” This report will orient you to where the stock market is today, as well as where it is going over the next several years. We are currently recommending stocks and specific mutual funds that you can hold and profit from, even in a bear market.
The 4th investment opportunity is gold.
The price of gold is influenced most by the value of the U.S. dollar. As the dollar falls, the price of gold will rise. It doesn’t happen on a day-to-day basis; but longer term, gold is a dollar thing … and the dollar is going to fall much further.
We are currently in the early stages of the third great gold bull market of the last 100 years. The first from 1929 to 1932 where we saw the price of the average mining stock increase 650%. In the second, from 1969 to 1980, the typical mining stock appreciated by 1,000%.
The third secular bull market in gold is under way ( it’s far from over), yet the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index (XAU) has barely doubled thus far. You will likely see the XAU appreciate another 400% by 2008.
OIL AND GOLD: ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEXT MOVE?
Update: 这次有读者来评论,我才注意到我当时还在关注这个,实际上,这个投资团队现在还存在,可以在这里找到他们的介绍,而这个分析,也正是他们用来吸引订户的王牌。 by William@2007/02/05
