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Alternative energy tech co. hopes solar and friction does mix, explains AllPennyStocks.com.

This fund manager is making gold cool on Wall Street, says Andrew Mickey.

Put selling a bullish sign for Research In Motion, notes Jud Pyle.

In today’s Got Gold Report by Gene Arensberg: gold, silver surge as buck battered.

Inter-market analysis: say bye to gold, silver, oil & equities, from Chris Vermeulen.

For more articles on gold and silver, please visit the Stockhouse gold & silver feature supplement: http://www.stockhousefeatures.com/gold-and-silver/

Buzz on the Boards visited the La Mancha Resources (TSX: T.LMA, Stock Forum) and Denison Mines Corp. (TSX: T.DML, Stock Forum) Bullboards.

Top Bullboards post: In a post entitled “Vanadium is going to be HUGE” on the Uranium Star Corp. (OTC: BB: URST, Stock Forum) Bullboard, Carcar said: “I've been looking into what this stuff is used for and it turns out it will be one of the most important elements for use in electric power storage for both vehicles and the new power grid Obama just signed into reality. If URST really has the world's largest Vanadium find ready to be announced then this stock should be worth a lot and not too far in the future. Uranium is so last year. Vanadium is so next year!”

Top Bullboard: The Ithaca Energy (TSX: V.IAE, Stock Forum) board had the most posts on Tuesday.

Top blog: jackp27 discussed “The Air Mattress Effect” on the A New York Nickel blog Tuesday.

For news about small stocks that made big moves in Tuesday trading, please read the Stockhouse Canadian Small and Micro-cap Stock Report.

Word on Wall Street

"When missiles start flying, everyone wants to run back to the dollar," Phil Flynn of Alaron Trading told the Associated Press.