Once in a great while, a sector trend becomes so strong, the rising tide lifts every boat in the industry.

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You likely know that my specialty niche is Canadian resource exploration stocks. These small cap companies are notoriously volatile. They aren’t quite free these days but they are ridiculously cheap.

The Canadian Markets marched ever higher during Friday trading.

On Friday, both gold and silver had a positive day…as did the HUI. What happened yesterday was similar to what happened on Wednesday. Then Thursday came along and these gains vanished…so I’m reluctant to read too much into Friday’s action.

If the government demanded U.S. oil be sold at a massive discount to domestic markets, oil producers would stop investing in the U.S. And we’d end up buying all of our oil abroad.

Everyone knows markets hate uncertainty. Nowhere is that borne out more than in biotech.

A 50 basis point rate cut by the Bank of Canada and hints that the interest rates are going even lower failed to rally the troops as selling was the story of the day on the Canadian markets during Tuesday trading.

A tiny $3 gold miner sits on $3.7 billion in measured gold reserves… and China’s thirst for gold could propel its stock price up to $20 by December 19, 2008. Buy this Toronto-listed mining start-up now, before its full production capacity has come online.