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CNBC Stock Blog: What factor(s) did HSBC’s Jim Steel recently cite as making precious metals “safe investments”?

“The persistently high price of oil, the weaker dollar and the resurfacing credit crisis are driving up the price of precious metals, making them safe investments,” said Jim Steel, chief commodities analyst for HSBC.

Looks like an “all of the above” to me.

Gold used to be the anti-inflation trade. It appears oil has taken over from gold in that regards the past 9 months or so. However, gold is still the Armageddon trade as evidenced by its strong showing during what seemed like End of Days this late winter and early spring. It is starting to perk up again…. I am tempted to buy my favorite miner on this breakout, Kinross Gold (KGC) - still debating.

[May 5: Closing Precious Metals]
[Jan 30: Starting New Position in Kinross Gold]

In terms of the market - we still need fear - but we’re getting there - the move to gold is a good indication. As I stated yesterday that S&P 1300 level is our temporary bottom for now - those big round numbers always act as psychological support. If that …

We have heard alot of discussion lately in regards to why the miners could possibly be doing so horribly, when history has shown us that mining stocks should be skyrocketing given the last 8 year bull run in precious metals.

Two words: Naked Shorting

Jim Sinclair has created a movement lately asking to enlist over 200,000 investors, and thousands of mining companies, to put a stop to the criminal activity of Naked Shorting that literally steals money from investors.  You can see more information on Jim Sinclairs initiative here.

One of the best detailed audio explanations of how Naked Shorting works, listen to this audio program.

Hopefully when this all starts coming to light, the brokers who have engaged in this criminal activity will be spending a long time in a cold cell with a large room-mate named Bubba who finds ex-stock brokers attractive.

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Will the Hunts buy silver again after selling Hunt Petroleum?

This week XTO Energy finally agreed to buy Hunt Petroleum for $4.2 billion after a long legal tussle between Hunt family heirs. The firm was founded by the late billionaire HL Hunt whose sons Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt once cornered the world silver market in the 1970s.

Hunt is a privately held company which makes no public comment on its affairs. But commentators think the Hunts are calling the top of the oil market and that the price for Hunt Petroleum suggests a quick deal was the objective.

However, market watchers are bound to wonder if the Hunts are planning to re-enter the silver market which they so dramatically dominated in the 1970s. It was in 1973 that the family first decided to buy precious metals to …

$45 trillion needed to combat warming- The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.More on this story HERE.Mexico sees lower oil exports for 2008 Pemex Chief Executive Jesus Reyes Heroles said the state-run company's oil exports were headed for an average of 1.40 million to 1.45 million barrels per day over 2008, around 15 percent below a goal set in Mexico's 2008 budget of 1.683 million bpd. The estimation is also well below an average export level of 1.686 million bpd in 2007.Crude Oil Rises a Second Day on Supply Concerns, Dollar Outlook ``People are really responding to longer-term supply issues,'' said John Vautrain, vice president at consultants Purvin & Gertz Inc. in Singapore, in an interview with Bloomberg Television. ``Every time we hear good news ...

Summer is around the corner. Rebate checks are in the mail. So what are people going to buy with their checks? Walmart is cashing the checks for free. Sears is offerng a 10% match with a purchase of any gift card -- all this to lure enthusiastic shoppers who can't wait to spend their dollars. But being that it is wedding season (which incidentally also means a season for wedding anniversaries), Tiffany (TIF) will be one of the beneficiaries of this double impact. Now the TIF stock has been having plenty of trouble of late. Technicians will tell you about the double top, followed by a reverse cup-with-handle. Sure, but the underlying reason is a slowing economy, higher food and gas prices, slowing consumer discretionary spending and yes, the rising price of silver. However, precious metals are retreating from their highs. And given the additional foot traffic that they will get ...

This move has nothing to do with the fundamentals of gold or silver. Simply put I want to run a concentrated portfolio and my # of holdings is getting too large. With the Federal Reserve backstopping the entire US financial system, the risk of "calamity" is lessened (in return for inflationary pressure and dollar destruction)... but this is more along the lines of, I see no reason to hold gold/silver when I have coal/fertilizer. I already know where the prices of those are a year out - whereas gold is speculative, subject to the whims of the market, and a lot of people believing in a fantasy called "2nd half recovery". So I just don't see the need anymore to hold something that is sort of replicated in other ways in the fund; yet carries more risk. I'd rather simply be more ...