A Good Jobs Report Points to Continued Good Times for Stocks

First off, he notes, the group's recent laggard performance follows a period of strong returns.The GDX ETF turned in an 18.06% annual return in the three years through Nov. 4, despite a negative 17.04% return in the most recent 12 months, according to Morningstar. [...]the group has a bad rap as being just a perpetual call option on bullion traded at inflated valuations. [...]historically, many mines have been saddled with poor managements that were lousy allocators of capital. [...]they provide a 2.31% dividend yield, which he adds ain't chopped liver, compared with the S&P 500's 1.38%. According to Canaccord Genuity estimates that he cites, they will flip from carrying aggregate debt of $18 billion