Friday, December 21, 2007

Investors Chasing Uranium Mining Stocks, Again: A Favorite Emerges

Fifty years ago, uranium fever hit Wall Street. It was then just a few years after a Navajo shepherd in New Mexico, by the name of Paddy Martinez, discovered ?yellow rocks? on his property, mistaking them at first for gold. An avalanche of 1950s dollars (more valuable than the ones we have today) poured into mutual funds and uranium mining stocks, sending their values to astronomical levels. Get ready for d骠 vu all over again, as Yogi Berra once said. Trend spotter, James Dines, editor of The Dines Letter, believes uranium mining stocks could become just as hot, or hotter, than the Internet stocks of the 1990s. (Editor?s note: StockInterview.com interviewed James Dines on July 20, 2004, when he forecast a ?buying panic in uranium.? Since then, spot uranium (U3 08) View the rest of this article


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