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About Eric Coffin
Analyst, HRA Advisories
Eric Coffin has a degree in Corporate and Investment Finance. He has extensive experience in merger and acquisitions and small company financing and promotion. For many years he tracked the financial performance and funding of all exchange listed Canadian mining companies and has helped with the formation of several successful exploration ventures.
Eric has been interviewed on CBC Television’s Business News and national and local radio in Canada and the US for his opinions on resource trends and is a frequent contributor to several third party publications and a number of resource, gold, metals and market related Internet sites.
He regularly speaks at a number of North American gold and resource conferences. He was one of the first analysts (along with David) to point out the disastrous effects of gold hedging and gold loan capital financing (1997) and to predict the start of the current secular bull market in commodities based on the movement of the US Dollar (2001) and the acceleration of growth in Asia and India.
Eric reviews data from hundreds of companies seeking strong management and finance teams in undiscovered companies for HRA's readers. Combined with good share structures and projects that David like, these companies have the potential to make the HRA list and generate gains for their readers.
Articles by Eric Coffin
- The Curse - Mar 23, 2012
THE CURSE
From The March 2012 HRA JournalDavid Coffin and Eric Coffin
It’s that time of year again. Thirty five thousand people descended on Toronto to take part in the largest mining industry confab in the world. The PDAC has become famous for the broad range of attendees, the numerous parties and the gouging by local hotel operators. In case you only go to Toronto for PDAC, $500 a night is not the usual price for a three star hotel in Hog Town.
For resource stock investors, Read more... - Super Mario - Jan 31, 2012
Super Mario
From The January 2012 HRA JournalDavid Coffin and Eric Coffin
We are extremely comfortable that our prognosticating for 2012 may or may not work out. Which puts us in the same camp as most others. That said, a contrarian turn ahead of possible normalizing of the debt issues still with us that we suggested in December does seem to be gaining ground in the market. With that should come a greater focus on basic technical indicators like metal stockpile changes. We note small coppe Read more... - If You Like Volatility Come And Play; If You Don’t, Stay Away - Nov 18, 2011
Despite the doom and gloom over sovereign debt problems in Europe, Hard Rock Analyst co-editor Eric Coffin remains optimistic, especially about junior resource equities in the gold and bulk materials spaces. He even provides a few investment ideas that he says are ‘cheap.’
SmallCapPower.com: Eric, in a blog titled “Tough Love” posted on the SmallCapPower.com website in late September, you wrote: “Eurodrama will cap the gold price and weak U.S. statistics will impro Read more... - Tough Love - Sep 30, 2011
Tough Love
From The September 2011 HRA Journal David Coffin And Eric Coffin
The market refrain this month could be summed up with the phrase "just do something!" Growth continues to be slow and the spectre of debt default in Europe has cast a pall over the markets for the past three months. Unfortunately, the EU bureaucracy is not built for speed so the torture is likely to continue for a while yet.
Notwithstanding all the drama and lack of action it looks like the EU will do what it takes Read more... - The Credibility Crash - Sep 02, 2011
From The August 2011 HRA Journal
David Coffin And Eric Coffin
Things turned hard in the markets since the last issue, and not in a good way. A lot of bad news has been priced into the market. At this point only time will tell whether that has impacted people hard enough to tip the slow growing developed countries into recession. Whichever way things go, it’s going to be close.
Gold and, for once, senior gold stocks have been the place to be. Even if markets stabilize, gold has prov Read more... - Dumb and Dumber - Aug 16, 2011
From The July 2011 Hard Rock Analyst DispatchDavid Coffin and Eric Coffin
Europeans came up with a Band-Aid for the Greek crisis, and the markets applauded. Markets were buoyed by the fact the facilities set up for Greece were clearly designed to be used for some of the other Euro area basket cases if need be. Core country leadership reiterated their unwillingness to force default or push peripheral countries out of the Eurozone. This is admirable perhaps, but it does narrow the options Read more... - What's The Endgame For The Arab Spring? - Jun 28, 2011
From the June 2011 HARD ROCK ANALYST JOURNAL
David Coffin & Eric Coffin, HRA Advisories
The many “typical” issues with downside potential that markets have been dealing are still some ways away from sufficient resolution to calm markets. One that has slipped off the economic pages, but is still causing much chatter on the political front, is the ongoing movement in the Arab world for changes of government. Though not as up front with the market crowd as when it began, it is s Read more... - Metals Market Equations Are No Longer Simple - May 03, 2011
From the April 2011 HARD ROCK ANALYST JOURNAL
David Coffin & Eric Coffin, HRA Advisories
World events continue to signal support for hard assets, but caution is still advised. News in the copper space is as much about consolidation of the players as the metal itself right now. The $7 bid by China Minmetals for Equinox Minerals (EQN-T, ASX) has offered some support for other mid tier copper assets. The Minmetals bid requires EQN to drop its own bid for Lundin Mining (LUN-T, LUNMF-Q) that Read more... - Potash Supply By Eric Coffin - Mar 31, 2011
From the March 2011 HARD ROCK ANALYST JOURNAL
David Coffin & Eric Coffin, HRA Advisories
Cloth-dying and soap-making have employed residue from boiled plant material since ancient times. The plants are reduced to brine and that evaporated until only the useful “potash” remains. In the 19th century the active ingredient in this precipitate was fit into the periodic table as “potassium” with the symbol “K”. Potash has stuck for potassium bearing salts mi Read more... - The Uncertainty of Crowds - Mar 18, 2011
From the February 21, 2011 HARD ROCK ANALYST DISPATCH
David Coffin & Eric Co
With Libyans having joined the movement to overturn aging autocracies the Arab street action has moved into a geopolitically more difficult territory. Concern over Libya’s oil exports are showing up as higher crude pricing. Libya’s 1.6 M barrels/day of crude output may well undergo disruptions, but the Saudis could replace that if prices move high enough to cause concern. As troubling is the unpredi Read more...
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