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Surprising Investment
Fellow Investor,
These are the latest forecasts from my team and me at Game-Changing Stocks. And in this presentation, I want to share these and other forecasts with you. Of course, these are only forecasts. Many will dismiss them as mere "speculation." But we've issued a number of forecasts like this over the years, boldly stating our unhedged predictions. And if you've followed them, you've seen how accurate many of them have been. In our past lists of predictions, for example, we told our readers to expect a big move in nanotechnology back in 2009. Our nanotech pick shot up 293%. We've also predicted that an obscure
diamond miner in Northern Canada would hit pay dirt. Our pick rose 210%
in the following year after our prediction. We further claimed that the "best sci-fi speculation of the year" would be a powerful technology called RFID... and that three stocks could skyrocket because of it. Our picks were up 42%... 89%... and 310% a year after being featured in our list. But we've also made spot-on calls about what to avoid. At the start of 2010 we said "sugar prices will plummet" because after a monster move from 12 cents to 26 cents per pound, we thought sugar was due for a breather. We even detailed a way to bet against the commodity that could have made investors nine times their money in just a few months. Sugar rose three more cents after our call and then plunged just as we said it would. And our call to avoid the Mexican peso, for example, saved a lot of people money.
Of course, there's no guarantee that our new
forecasts will be as profitable as our earlier ones. And not every one of
them will come to fruition. So, without further ado, let me get to our new forecasts. Please bear in mind that when I discuss a specific investment, StreetAuthority is a totally independent publisher, with no affiliation to any brokerage or investment products. We live and die on our subscription revenues. When you run an investment publication on subscription fees alone, you're not in business long unless your advice makes money for your customers. With that in mind, I've decided the share some of my most unique -- and potentially lucrative -- investment ideas with you today. Of course, in a letter like this, we can only hit the highlights. There's simply not enough room for all of the data, projections, analysis and judgment that go into each of these forecasts. So we've compiled all this research into an exclusive report called The Hottest Investment Opportunities for the Next 12 Months. This report lays out the details of all our predictions for the coming 12 months -- and the stocks that will profit from these bold calls. I'll tell you how to get the report in a moment. But first, let's get to our 11 latest forecasts... Prediction #1: U.S. Stocks Soar During the Next 12 Months I predict stocks will soar during the next 12 months as Congress, looking to get re-elected, will pass a long-term tax proposal that will allow businesses to do something they haven't been able to do for four years: plan ahead. This and targeted cuts in federal spending will increase confidence and put more dollars into the private sector, which will spur growth. As job gains accelerate, GDP will surprise to the upside. Strong free cash flow will lead to significant increases in dividends, share buybacks, mergers & acquisitions and business reinvestment. Some of the trillions of dollars now on the sidelines will move back into the market, raising the earnings multiple of the market to its historic norm, then exceeding it. The P/E ratio is now about 13. So a move back to its historic average of above 16 will give stocks a nearly 25% bump. Even if earnings didn't rise a cent from here, a move back to its historic P/E would mean the Dow would surpass its all-time high and burst through 15,000. Take a look for yourself...
For our favorite way to play this
rally, we have written up two stocks in The Hottest Investment
Opportunities for the Next 12 Months.
Prediction #2: Israel Bombs Iran and Oil Hits $200 per Barrel To say tensions are simmering over
Iran's clandestine nuclear program would be an understatement. I think in
the next year, a major move will occur. Iran's navy isn't strong enough to conduct a conventional blockade. Its ships would be easily destroyed by U.S. naval and air power. And Iran's submarines aren't well suited to the cramped and shallow waters of the strait. So Iran will mine the strait... and unleash its 1,000 boat "swarm force" armed with cruise missiles, mines, torpedoes and rocket-propelled grenades. These fast-attack missile boats are 72 feet long and cruise at 65 miles per hour. When dozens of armed speed boats attack larger naval vessels from all sides, defense is extremely difficult. Armed conflict in the Persian Gulf will be like throwing gasoline on a fire when it comes to oil prices. Oil will burst through its old record of $147 per barrel and easily top $200. Even if we're wrong and Israel
doesn't attack Iran, oil prices will still be pressured to rise in the
next 12 months. The basic problem is that there simply isn't enough to go around. You can debate peak oil all you want. But you can't argue that the world is growing more oil-hungry every year.
Where will this extra oil come from? That's the problem. It might not come. Cambridge Energy Research Associates
studied the largest 811 oilfields and found the average rate of field
decline to be 4.5% per year. I don't have a crystal ball, but with so many forces converging, it's not crazy to conclude that energy prices could go much higher in 2012... with or without war in the Middle East. The easiest way to profit? In the
stocks of a few large integrated oil companies that are trading at bargain
prices. This company is about half the size of Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM)... but we bet that will change in the years ahead. Petroleo Brasileiro, also known as Petrobras, is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, and is the largest company in Latin America by both market cap and revenue. With a market cap of $170 billion, it'sbr> I can't provide all the details here, but this "other" energy stock has a market cap of just $1 billion -- less than 0.5% the size of Petrobras. That means it has plenty of room to grow and make serious money for its investors. In fact, since going public in late 2007, this stock has beaten the S&P 500 by 195 percentage points. Prediction #3: Bolivia Will Nationalize
One of the
World's Richest Silver isn't like most metals, which are spread around the world. Silver mines are highly concentrated in six countries. Mexico, Peru, China, Australia, Chile and Bolivia accounted for 66% of mankind's silver production last year. If any of these countries suffers strife, floods, nationalization, or revolution... it wouldn't take much to constrict the supply of new silver to market... and ignite a fire under its price. Prime example: Bolivia, where the country's socialist president Evo Morales has already threatened to expropriate silver mines. Bolivia is home to the world's largest
pure silver mines, operated by Idaho-based Coeur d'Alene Mines (NYSE: CDE).
Of course, you have plenty of reasons to be bullish on silver, besides Morales. Every day the world consumes over 2 million ounces of silver, but we dig up only 1.75 million ounces. The difference comes from above-ground inventories... and they are running out fast. According to research firm CPM, in 1900 there were 12 billion ounces of above-ground silver on the planet. By 1990, we were down to 2.2 billion ounces. Today, we're down to about a billion ounces. That's a drop of 92%. A vital material, prized by man since the time of the Pharaohs, is literally disappearing before our eyes. According to New Scientist
magazine, at our current rate of use, all known silver reserves will be
mined out in 27 years. Scarier yet, if the rest of the world starts using
silver at just half the rate we do in the U.S., it will be gone in seven
years. In The Hottest Investment Opportunities
for the Next 12 Months
you'll see a strong case for $200 silver. Sound crazy? Keep in mind that 32
years ago silver spiked to about $143 in today's inflation-adjusted dollars.
And every supply/demand factor we can find is exponentially more bullish now
than it was back then.
The move we see coming gives average investors the chance to make a small fortune. You'll find the best way to profit in your free report. It's with a company that gets its hands
on un-hedged silver "streams" for low, fixed costs of around $4 per ounce --
without having to shell out a penny in capital expenditures. Prediction #4: Apple Will Stumble Without Steve Jobs The great news for Apple investors? The
company recently announced blowout earnings, sending the stock soaring. It
now trades above $500 per share and is the largest U.S. company by market
capitalization. But with visionary genius Steve Jobs no longer at the helm, all bets are off. New CEO Tim Cook has an almost impossible act follow. Jobs had an impact on every facet of the company, on every device, every operating system, and every design. He not only got deeply involved but inspired people to outperform. Without Jobs' maniacal perfectionism, we can't see Apple continuing its meteoric growth. Apple will still be a good company. But it's hard enough for a tech company to stay on top even when everything is in its favor. Five years from now I doubt Apple will still be viewed with the same adulation that it is today. And over the next 12 months, I think the share price will drop. You could short Apple stock, but that's a little too risky for my blood. Instead, this is my warning to simply avoid the stock for the coming 12 months. I'd put my money in a stock with less of a cap on its potential... and that hasn't lost one of the most visionary leaders in the history of business. Prediction #5: The Surprise Investment of
the Next Year
At the end of 2013 an event is scheduled to take place between Russia and the United States that has major investment implications. On that day, a 20-year treaty between the United States and Russia will expire. Few investors realize it, but uranium from old Russian warheads generates 10% of our nation's total electricity -- more than solar, wind and hydro combined. 31 million Americans rely on electricity generated by this Russian uranium, which fuels U.S. nuclear plants... and this nuclear lifeline will likely be cut in 2013. What does this mean for investors in 2012? Well before this uranium supply is disrupted, the price of uranium mining stocks could rise sharply. It might come as a surprise after all the negative headlines, but nuclear power is still a growth industry -- despite the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Only 10 of the world's 445 reactors have stopped operating since the accident. Meanwhile more than 60 new ones are under construction in 14 different countries... and 370 more are in the planning stage. True, there has been a backlash in Europe, where anti-nuclear sentiment runs highest. But the uranium story isn't about the developed world. 90% of the growth in nuclear reactors is coming from places like China, India, and Russia... which have all reaffirmed their need for nuclear power. China has already begun building more than two dozen new reactors that will triple the size of its nuclear reactor fleet over the next decade. And they have 50 more in the advanced-planning stage. India is building 19 new nuclear reactors between now and 2016. But all those new reactors can't deliver a single kilowatt of power without uranium. Problem is, there's not enough to go around. The world's 445 reactors burned through 180 million pounds of uranium last year. But miners could produce only 140 million -- leaving a 40 million pound shortfall. So far the difference has been made up from salvaging uranium from other sources -- like recycled Russian warheads. When the supply dries up, we could see uranium prices soar. Your best bet to profit is with the only uranium miner in the world that has a chance of ramping up production fast enough to satisfy the coming wave of demand. This single firm produced almost 20% of the world's uranium mined last year. What's more, it's sitting on 65% of the world's known uranium supply. It owns a high-grade mother lode that boasts the richest uranium ore body on the planet -- with concentrations 100 times stronger than average. The site is so fertile that the ore has to be blended with waste rock just to make it safe to handle. That ultra-high ore grade is a major advantage. Extraction costs are so low that they could turn a profit even if prices drop in half. If uranium jumps by $30 a pound from its current $50 per pound price level, which could happen once the Russian supply dries up, it would add $192 million to this company's bottom line. I wouldn't be surprised if that caused this stock to soar. Get your free copy of The Hottest Investment Opportunities for the Next 12 Months today and you'll get our overview of the uranium industry... and the name and symbol of our top pick in this arena. Prediction #6: A Select Few Penny Mining Stocks
I've Found It happens in every major precious metals bull market. First the bullion price goes up, then the stocks of the established miners, and finally as emotions hit fever pitch, we see a spectacular run-up in the junior exploratory mining stocks. During the last major precious metals bull market, which ran from about 1975 until 1980, gold rose from $150 to $850 per ounce. Many small mining stocks shot up from less than $1 a share to hundreds of dollars a share within five years. These stocks made millionaires out of investors who got in early and sold at the right point...
Can you imagine the thrill of owning a few thousand shares of a 93-cent stock that hits $440? These huge gains occurred at the tail
end of the last big run-up in gold. Why does that matter? We might even see a replay of what happened with Aurelian Resources. Shares jumped from $0.39 to $35.73 in under a year, turning $10,000 into $916,000. But you need to be careful -- plenty of junior mining stocks crash and burn... so don't take this as license to put the mortgage money into penny mining stocks. For every Seabridge Gold, now a major $900 million miner with a gain of 23,595% since 1998, there are 10 wanna-be's that are now out of business. But for a shot at the sort of profits that could really change things in your life, we recommend taking a look at the three penny mining stocks in The Hottest Investment Opportunities for the Next 12 Months. These small miners
offer the potential to double, triple or jump much more. Some are sitting on
discoveries that could explode their profits -- and the value of their stock
-- in months. Others might be on the brink of making a big strike that could send their share price through the roof.
Prediction #7: Best Commodity Play of 2012: Corn After hitting a high of nearly $8 a bushel last August on worries about shortages, corn prices have dropped as supplies increased again. The price of corn for December delivery fell as low as $5.70 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade. But don't let the recent slip fool you: Corn prices could be ready to soar. Even the slightest hint of bad weather could turn the markets on a dime -- and trigger a powerful bullish move. Twice in just the past year corn has spiked from below $6 a bushel to nearly $8 in a matter of weeks. It could easily do so again if any weather disruption occurs in the next few months. "There is a storm developing in agriculture," Jean Bourlot, global head of commodities at UBS told Bloomberg News. "If we have the slightest disruption in any part of the world, the effect on the price will be considerable." The big picture for corn apart from weather is also bullish. Worldwide demand for corn has surged. China, the second-biggest corn consumer after the United States, is using 47 times more corn than it did 10 years ago. A big reason is that the Chinese gobble
up twice as much pork and four times as much chicken as they did 20 years
ago. So their farmers need huge amounts of corn for animal feed. In fact, the U.S. ethanol industry now
uses seven times as much corn than it did 10 years ago. As crude prices
surge past $100 per barrel, that will only push ethanol corn use higher. "For the livestock industry, the ethanol industry, and the food industry, it's going to be a food fight," says John Cory, who runs the grain processer Prairie Mills. "Any kind of weather problems are really going to be a significant problem." Oddly enough, while I think corn will
rise, I think the best way to invest has almost nothing to do with the
staple... except that as corn prices rise, this "alternative" looks even
more attractive. Prediction #8: Scientists Create Bone-Healing "Fracture Putty" Tucked away in an inconspicuous office building in northern Virginia are the offices of one of the most fascinating venture capital shops in the world: the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA. DARPA is the government's research wing and funds futuristic long-shot projects that Wall Street and Silicon Valley would never consider. Occasionally this obscure group of uber-geniuses comes up with a real winner. Take the Internet -- brought to us by DARPA engineers looking for an easy way to share data. DARPA also created GPS, stealth fighter planes and hand-held speech translators that let people without a common language talk to each other. In fact, the iPhone's new talking Siri feature came out of a DARPA program. Right now, they're working on bomb-sniffing robots, bionic limbs, driverless cars -- and that's only what they've made public. One of DARPA's latest prospects is a
"fracture putty" that can help broken bones heal. The hope is that this biological "spackle" could be applied to broken bones right on the battlefield, where the lack of conventional medical technology leads to frequent amputation. The good news: It turns out a couple of docs at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston figured out how to make the stuff work. Their discovery could change the field of orthopedics forever. You can bet that these two doctors will soon start a company to further produce fracture putty and to sell it to the Pentagon as well as to every hospital emergency room, sports medicine clinic and pediatrician in the world. Fracture putty
is a game changer... there's just one issue. This technology is so new that
it's not available on the market, and there is no stock you can buy that
will give you exposure to this breakthrough. Prediction #9: A Radical New Process Will Turn
Chickens Five years ago, Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN)
was throwing away one-third of 2.2 billion chickens every year. So it did
something remarkable for a food company. The technology is complex, but the gist is that this little company takes the triglycerides in fat and oil, adds heat, hydrogen and some proprietary catalytic agents and -- voila -- gets diesel or jet fuel. Its fuel exceeds industry standards. It produces almost no sulfur. And even though it's cleaner, it has higher energy content than conventional diesel or jet fuel. This could be big, simply because of the scale of Tyson's business. It is the largest meat processor in the world and can process 46 million chickens per week. That gives its little partner a nearly infinite source of raw materials. Over 3 billion pounds of inedible tallow and 1.4 billion pounds of poultry fat were produced in the United States last year. This firm can put all of this to use. It began commercial operations in 2010 and is already making a lot of money. Its net margin is 18.5%, which beats 81% of the S&P 500. It also has no long-term debt, which is a major plus. The stock has recently been trading under a dollar. I believe it could double in the next 12 months. You'll find more on this lucrative, high-potential speculation in The Hottest Investment Opportunities for the Next 12 Months. Keep reading to see how to get your copy now. Prediction #10: Warren Buffett Makes a Huge Investment in Japan I predict that Warren Buffett will buy out a major electronics maker in Japan -- unleashing a tidal wave of buyout activity here at home. The huge earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country last year hasn't soured Buffett on Japanese firms.
Of course that cash hoard reflects the
caution many companies feel about investing in their business in an economy
where growth is painfully slow. But at this point I'd say there is little
doubt things are improving. I'm betting that in the year ahead we will begin
to see a shopping spree on Wall Street as companies look for businesses to buy
that will boost their own bottom lines. I've shortlisted
three likely takeover candidates to profit from this M&A frenzy and written
them up in The Hottest Investment Opportunities for the Next 12
Months. Prediction #11: Rare Earth Metals Will Be Caught
in a The rare earth metals are a collection of 17 elements clustered at the bottom of the periodic table. Without them, you can say goodbye to the modern way of life. No more flat screens... no more computer hard drives... no fiber-optic cables... no digital cameras... no MRI machines. No more satellites... no more GPS. Considering how vital they are to our national security, you'd think the United States would have a deep strategic reserve of these metals. You'd be wrong. We barely produce any at all. China controls 97% of the world's production. And Beijing is getting stingy about sharing with the rest of the world. China's hoarding has pushed prices sharply higher. Take neodymium, for example, which makes the strongest magnets in the world. It's in every iPod Apple makes. Neodymium now fetches $120 per kilogram, four times its price in 2009. Recent moves by Chinese mining officials make me think that we'll see even worse supply bottlenecks in 2012. In September, China's Ministry of Land and Resources tightened controls on exploration, mining and sales of rare earth metals even more. It called these metals China's "21st century treasure trove.'' The following month, China's biggest rare earth metals miner suspended production for a month, hoping to boost prices even higher. Beijing's move to control these vital
minerals is a wake up call to the rest of the world. But constructing mines to pull these elements out of the ground takes years. Mines just now being started won't be operational until 2018. If you're the kind of investor who looks for the big scores... the kind that could set you up for years... this is where you need to be looking. There's no guarantee rare earth metals will make investors money, but I like the chances. But what's the best way to invest? I
think I've found it... and it's not a single company. How to Receive This Report Free All the investment opportunities I've mentioned here are explored in detail in The Hottest Investment Opportunities for the Next 12 Months. We've put this report together because it's a perfect introduction to my Game-Changing Stocks advisory. Game-Changing Stocks is unlike any other financial advisory letter you've ever seen. What makes it so different? Why Game-Changing Stocks Is Unique Despite all the rocket scientists and supercomputers on Wall Street, I think the best way to make money from investing is the same approach that worked best decades ago: find a breakthrough idea and watch your profits soar as the concept matures into a mainstream commercial success. To bag those potential gains, you need a contrarian streak. If you buy the same investments as everyone else, you're going to have the same performance as other people. This is why Game-Changing Stocks is defiantly contrarian. I'm focused on finding those companies introducing new concepts or technologies that turn markets on their heads. That's where you can find the sort of profits that have the potential to "move the needle" on your portfolio. Readers of my research are accustomed to seeing new investment ideas before they hit the mainstream media... and making money from them. While not every stock I cover soars... time and time again I am alerting readers to little-known companies before they see big moves...
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We said "the Mexican peso will plunge in 2011 as
drug violence spirals out of control, tourists desert the beaches, and
remittances by unemployed Mexicans in the U.S. dry up."
According to the International Energy
Association, in 20 years, the world will need the equivalent of four new
Saudi Arabias to meet demand.
Meanwhile, a pivotal shift has taken
place in the U.S. corn market. In 2011, for the first time ever, more corn
was used for ethanol than for livestock.
"There are lots of opportunities in
Japan," Buffett said during a visit to the country to inspect a tool-making
company owned by a Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B) subsidiary. According to Bloomberg
News, Buffett has made bullish bets on Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index
through derivatives contracts.
Four Biotechs Poised For Big Growth in a $228 Billion Cancer
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