Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Gold – The Safest Haven? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ian_R_Campbell
I recently read ‘Is the U.S. Dollar Losing Its Safe-Haven Status’ - reading time 2 minutes - thinking time much longer. This article has caused me to re-visit my constant self-debate as to whether physical gold is the best available ‘safe-haven’.While the article is short, it quotes directly from a research note from the Bank Credit Analyst (‘BCA’ – a well-regarded research house). According to the above article, the note says:
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
The Swiss Franc Abdicates the Crown - Gold and Silver are King! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: George_Maniere
On Tuesday, Switzerland abdicated the crown as the safe haven currency and pegged itself to the Euro - 1.2 Swiss Francs to the Euro. This left a void. Who would step in as the safe haven currency? Everyone thought it would be gold and silver. Last night as we slept the Central Bank sold of about a billion dollars in gold to force the price of gold down. This caused the dollar to rise and sent money running to the stock market. This is blatant manipulation of the precious metals market because the Central Bank does not want the middle class having any safe harbor. They want them tied to the fiat paper currencies. In the end it won't work because China will stabilize the PM market but it worked yesterday as the Dow rose 275 and the S&P rose 33.38 points.
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
Time To Buy Junior Gold Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Jeb_Handwerger
Recently two mining giants -- Goldcorp (GG) and Barrick Gold (ABX) -- published their bullish earnings reports showing increasing margins due to a rising gold price. Here is a perfect example of a report that's trying to tell us something. The hidden message in these glowing statements is of great significance to gold traders. What is the other side of the story?
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Rise to 20 Percent, After Fukushima / Commodities / Renewable Energy
By: OilPrice_Com
The worldwide implications for nuclear power advocates in light of the 11 March disaster at Japan's Daichi Fukushima nuclear complex, battered first by an earthquake and a subsequent tsunami, are slowly unfolding.
Nations committed to nuclear power are being subjected to a relentless PR barrage by nuclear construction firms, who stand to lose billions if current contracts are suspended or, even worse, cancelled.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Silver SLV ETF Coil Should Resolve to Upside / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Increasingly, my pattern work in the iShares Silver Trust (SLV) is telling me that all of the action off of the Aug 22 recovery high at 42.30 through today's low at 39.21 is taking the form of a large coil that is positioned in the upper 40% of the entire advance from the May corrective low at 31.55.
If my pattern work proves accurate, then today's low should represent the latest coordinate in the coil -- and as such should not be violated if the integrity of the pattern is to be preserved.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Gold False Comparison To 2008 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jim_Willie_CB
Whenever it suits Team Titanic from the increasingly tense helm, more phony comparisons are trotted out in baseless news stories posing as legitimate analysis. The latest propaganda plank is that the current financial climate, worse by the week, resembles 2008 and therefore bodes badly for the Gold & Silver prices. The implicit inference has no basis. In the final months of that fateful 2008 year, when Lehman Brothers served as the flagship going down in icy waters, writing the epitaph that marked the historic death event for the US banking industry, not yet recognized, the precious metal price fell by a huge amount in a liquidity drain amidst a grand crisis.
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
The Silver Siren: Reversion To Reality / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Rob_Kirby
According to the World Gold Council – the overall level of global mine production is relatively stable. Supply has averaged approximately 2,497 tonnes per year over the last several years. 2500 tonnes is equal to 80.4 million troy ozs.
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Manipulation and Short-Term Instability of the Gold Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Bob_Chapman
August was sure a barnburner and we believe that was a prelude for an even wilder September. How often do you see gold fall $200.00 in 3 days and recover $187 in 6 days? In our 53 years of involvement in this sector we have never seen anything like this. This shows you what government manipulation is all about. Get used to it, this is what living in a corporatist fascist society is all about.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Gold Bull Market Over With Double Top? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: David_Banister
A few weeks ago I penned a public article and private forecast for my subscribers calling for a major correction in Gold being due. 72 hours after my forecast, Gold had dropped a stunning $208 per ounce in 3 days catching most by surprise. Why did I forecast a top in Gold then? Why did Gold rally back to new highs recently? Is the Gold Bull Market now over? Let’s see if I can answer those questions with some level of logic below.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Is the Swiss Franc to Euro Peg Bullish for Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Eric_McWhinnie
On Tuesday, gold (NYSE:GLD) reached a new all-time nominal high of $1921.15 before falling back below $1900. Silver (NYSE:SLV) futures for December delivery retreated 2.8% to close at $41.86. Even though gold and silver suffer pullbacks from time to time, the bullish case for precious metals (NYSE:DBP) continues to build. Yesterday, the Swiss National Bank decided to surprise global markets and give investors another reason to buy gold and silver.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Gold, Deflation and Krugman's Flawed Economic Analysis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
Paul Krugman's changed his stance on gold. He's still wrong though…
LOOK AT THIS! It seems some people have been waiting to buy gold until Paul Krugman advised it!
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Gold Plunges as Global Currency Wars Resume and Markets Digest German Decision / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Gold is trading at USD 1,843.60, EUR 1,314.10 , GBP 1,155.30, CHF 1,584.10 and JPY 142,390 per ounce. Gold closed marginally lower in all currencies yesterday except for the Swiss franc which fell nearly 7% against gold and other fiat currencies.
Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,844.00, EUR 1,311.99, GBP 1,153.44 per ounce. Gold fixed lower in all currencies (USD 1,891.00, EUR 1,330.75, GBP 1,172.86 per ounce).
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Gold Falls, Green Light Given to future Euro Bailouts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ben_Traynor
U.S. DOLLAR gold bullion prices dropped to around $1833 an ounce Wednesday morning in London – 4.5% off yesterday's intraday record high.
Stocks and commodities rose and government bonds fell after Germany's highest court ruled the country's bailout policies are not in breach of its constitution.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Crude Oil Explosive Upside on Supply Decrease Plus Demand Increase / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: The_Energy_Report
Global Resource Investments Founder and Chairman Rick Rule is a self-described energy bull. In this special Energy Report from his latest web broadcast, he highlights the global macro-trends that will drive energy prices—oil, natural gas, uranium and alternative energy way up in the coming years.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Electricity Post Post-Carbon Future / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Andrew_McKillop
VANITY TECH OR ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE ?
Back as February 2009, Lord John Mogg of the UK, president of the European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas (ERGEG) charged by the European Commission (EC) with outlining further electric power system integration in Europe and the regulatory environment for this, said the winds are turning for European energy regulators. Since that time the facing winds are blowing very hard for European debt, deficits, economic growth and monetary stability, and a lot slower for high cost windfarm projects. This however remains the main hope for Low Carbon energy, with world windpower capacity attaining about 200 GW in early 2011. However, while wind itself is endless, natural and free, producing electricity with it is not: especially with offshore windfarms, capital costs can reach the fantastic level of around 7 500 euro per kiloWatt ($ 10 000/ kW), making windpower even more expensive, if less dangerous than nuclear power for electricity supply.
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Gold, is Safe Haven, Not Francs as Switzerland to Buy Foreign Currency in Unlimited Quantities / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Mike_Shedlock
In a stunning morning press release, Swiss National Bank sets minimum exchange rate at CHF 1.20 per euro
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Is China Buying Gold to Challenge the U.S. Dollar? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Eric_McWhinnie
“International supervision over the issue of U.S. dollars (NYSE:UUP) should be introduced and a new, stable and secured global reserve currency may also be an option to avert a catastrophe caused by any single country.” -China’s official news agency Xinhua
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Swiss Franc Collapses Against the Dollar and Gold as Central Bank Plans to Debase Currency / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Currency markets have seen massive volatility this morning after the Swiss National Bank decision to fix the Swiss franc to the euro.
Gold is trading at USD 1,899.50, EUR 1,339.10, GBP 1,177.30, CHF 1,611.10 (up from CHF 1,486.50 yesterday) and JPY 146,350 per ounce. Gold is down 0.18% in dollar terms and strong physical demand continues at these levels.
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Gold Falls as Eurozone Banks Worry about Counterparty Risks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ben_Traynor
U.S. DOLLAR prices to buy gold fell to a low of $1877 an ounce on Tuesday morning in London – a 2.3% drop from their new record high set hours earlier – while stocks and the Euro rallied after the Swiss National Bank announced plans to peg its currency to the Euro.
Yields on 10-Year US Treasury bonds hit an all-time low of 1.97% – while yields on Italian and Greek debt moved the other way.
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Investing in Farmland for Healthy Profits / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
If Mark Twain was talking about investing in farmland when he suggested "buy land - they're not making anymore," then he knew more about finance than he's credited with.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago just reported that prime farmland prices in the heart of the U.S. grain belt (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin) - were up 17% in the second quarter compared to 2010, the biggest year-over-year increase since 1977.
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