Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Gold and Silver Rally, Economic Backdrop "Got to Be Good" for Gold Investors / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF PHYSICAL gold investment bars in wholesale trading regained half of the week's near-2% drop on Wednesday in London, touching $1462 per ounce as global stock markets ticked higher and government bonds eased back.
European Brent crude oil rallied to $121 per barrel after losing 6% in two trading days, while Kuwait suspended oil exports due to sandstorms, and Libya's new "contact group" of politicians called for Colonel Gaddafi to quit.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Central Banks Favour Gold and AAA Rated Government Debt / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Stocks are higher in Europe after gains in Asia despite losses on Wall Street yesterday. Gold and silver are showing tentative gains after 1% declines yesterday. Gold is particularly strong in yen terms as the yen has weakened against all 16 of its major peers (see cross currency tables). China’s yuan climbed to a 17-year high versus the dollar but is lower against the precious metals.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Why Is Silver Rising Faster Than Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
Silver is breaking new records today at almost $40 and gold is touching new highs of $1,458. Looking back, over the last few years we have seen gold rise from around $312 to $1,458 a rise of 4.67 times and silver from around $6 to $40 a rise of 6.67 times.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Gold Stocks Bellwether Signal Confirmed / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Neil_Charnock
A bellwether is any entity that serves to create or influence trends or to indicate future events. In this essay I present an expanded excerpt from Newsletter No. 29 published in our Gold Members area on the 6th April. This followed the analysis we presented back on March 16th in No. 27 that suggested Australian gold stocks were testing important support and we were buying heavily in our educational portfolio the day before. We have been showing our subscribers how to systematically pick off the buy opportunities using technical and fundamental analysis during the course of this consolidation period.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Silver Options: How to Protect Your White Metal Profits / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes: Turn on the television or flip through the pages of any major newspaper, and the top stories will be either the stock market's unrelenting rise in recent days or gold's climb to yet another record high.
Without question, both are worthy of note - but the real star over the past eight months has been silver.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Silver Investing Strategies, and the Outlook for Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Money_Morning
Silver rose as high as $41.98 an ounce this week - a 31-year high - and has remained above the $40-an-ounce level. That means that the "other" precious metal is up about 32% so far this year - and has more than doubled since Money Morning recommended it to readers in early September.
But where does it go from here? And how should investors position themselves? To answer those questions - and others - Money Morning brought its top "gurus" together for a roundtable discussion.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Gold at Record Highs, but Bullish Sentiment Lags / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
Over the past few weeks Gold has traded at or near record highs. It has yet to embark on a sustained breakout but that is not because Gold is a crowded trade. In recent months money has moved into equities, Oil and Silver. As a result, some hot money and speculative money has moved out of Gold, leaving the market in a healthier state.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Buying Gold Coins, What You Need to Know / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Gary_North
If you did what Bill Bonner and I have been recommending for a decade, you own gold. Bonner began promoting the purchase of gold in the year 2000. I strongly promoted this for my subscribers after September 11, 2001, when the Federal Reserve began pumping up the monetary base in earnest. Neither of us has ever stopped recommending holding money in gold.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Hunt Brothers $50 Silver Truth, How They Capped Gold…Yes, GOLD! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldSilver
It began with a shoot-out at the Circle K Ranch. The 12 best marksmen would ride shotgun as the world’s largest, privately owned stockpile of silver was secretly transferred into secure vaults.
No, this wasn’t a shipment from Nevada’s Comstock Lode to San Francisco in the Wild West of the 1870s. This was the 1970s, and the precious metal was being moved from New York to Switzerland.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
What Does Euro Breakout Mean for Gold Investors? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
Before moving on to the timing-related part of this essay (in fact a continuation of our previous essay Breakouts in Gold and Silver Prices), let’s take a few moments to focus on the big picture. Namely, we would like to draw your attention to some interesting facts about the main point of our interest – gold.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Gold and Silver Fall as Goldman Says "Sell Commodities" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF physical gold slipped to a 3-session low in London trade on Tuesday, bouncing higher from $1455 per ounce – 1.5% below yesterday's new Dollar high – as world stock markets fell and major-economy government bond prices rose.
Commodity markets fell after the International Energy Agency said crude oil at "$100-plus...will prove incompatible with...economic recovery" and weaker than expected UK inflation data followed the International Monetary Fund's newly downgraded global growth forecasts.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Gold Over £900/oz as British Pound Falls Sharply / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Gold is marginally lower in all currencies today, except sterling, after UK retail sales plunged the most on record in March due to deepening inflation. Consumer’s finances in the UK and internationally are being negatively impacted by food and energy inflation showing the UK’s vulnerability to a double dip recession and stagflation. Gold rose 0.5% in sterling over the £900/oz mark again.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
How to Profit if the Nigeria Elections Drive Up Oil Prices / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: Oil prices are on the rise for a bevy of reasons - soaring demand in emerging markets, the weak dollar, and a strengthening U.S. recovery, to name a few.
However, supply disruptions and civil unrest in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region in recent months have had the biggest impact on oil prices. Egypt, Libya and Yemen have all played a part in driving up oil prices, and now they're about to be joined by another volatile oil producer.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Silver, The Canary In The Gold Mine / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
Silver, the Canary in the Gold Mine was my talk at a Gold Standard Institute symposium in Canberra, Australia in November 2008. The topic could well describe today’s gold and silver markets.
Today, both silver and gold are achieving record highs but silver’s accelerating price indicates silver may indeed be the canary in the gold mine, the leading indicator for gold’s long-awaited explosive move upwards, a move the Fed and major bullion banks have colluded since the 1980s to prevent.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Changes in Monetary Policy Could Hit Gold Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: The_Gold_Report
How has the increase in government in the last 150 years driven precious metal prices? In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Leonard Melman, editor of The Melman Report newsletter and the author of Reverse the Way In, discusses why he recommends precious metal stocks, but advocates changes in monetary policy that could diminish the price of gold.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Why High Crude Oil Prices Are Likely Here to Stay / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Frank_Holmes
A number of forces continued to push oil prices higher last week, reaching their highest levels in the U.S. since September 2008.
Monday, April 11, 2011
A New Trend in Fracking Oil and Gas Emerges: The "Recovery Factor" / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: OilPrice_Com
"Lower costs. Higher oil and gas recoveries."
That's how Dan Themig, President of Packers Plus - a privately owned, Calgary-based fracking (completions) company - describes an interesting new development in fracking...
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Monday, April 11, 2011
Gold and Silver Breaks Out: Technical Targets Being Monitored / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jeb_Handwerger
Gold broke out of its 6 month consolidation and cup and handle pattern. The gold bulls are now in control and short covering should begin to cause an explosive move to my late January target of $1600 on gold and $40 on silver. In late January, gold and silver were in a sell-off and many were predicting lower prices as moving averages were broken. Now we are on our way to the January target in gold of $1600. Many ask what to do as they sit on hefty gains.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Silver Bars Robbery Underlines Need For Safe Storage Alternatives / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Nick_Barisheff
Investors both large and small deserve ultimate safety for safe-haven bullion investments
A violent home invasion and the theft of $750,000 in silver bars from the private vault of a 52-year-old British Columbia man in January underscores the need for safe storage alternatives for bullion.
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Monday, April 11, 2011
U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve: What’s the Trigger for Release? / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Dian_L_Chu
In early March, White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley told NBC that the Administration was considering releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) if it deems the high oil prices would threaten the U.S. economic recovery.
President Obama, in a press conference on March 11, also reiterated that a plan to tap the SPR was "teed up" and said he would move quickly should ‘conditions’ worsen. However, the President refused to say what price could trigger a release.