Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Former Shell Oil Chief Predicts $5 Gas by 2012 / Commodities / Gas - Petrol

By: Mac_Slavo

Though he’s no longer running one of the largest companies in the world, former President of Shell Oil John Hofmeister warns that the outlook for gas prices in the coming decade is not looking good:

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Gold Tertiary Trend Headed Higher as Gold Consolidates at Higher Levels / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Anthony_J_Stills

I have been watching recent developments around the world with considerable interest. There are renewed riots in Greece, new demonstrations in Italy, a growing divide between citizens and government in Ireland while tensions in Spain and Portugal increase daily. Also there are new developments in Belgium, Hungary and Poland as the debt disease spreads its own deadly version of the famous “green shuts” that have yet to materialize in the United States.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Three Things that Could Halt Gold’s Run / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne

Normally we write about the things and conditions that cause precious metals to rise. While these things may be obvious, the corresponding rise in the bull market will not always be consistent and linear. Small and large corrections will occur along the way. Some will be purely technical while some have real drivers. There are three things that can precede a deep correction or consolidation in the precious metals complex.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

The HUI Gold Stocks Index Holiday Fractal Seasonals / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: Lorimer_Wilson

Goldrunner writes: The Holiday Season often tends to usher in strength for the Precious Metals Sector and this is especially true for those Holiday Seasons which are related in a fractal pattern.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Rarer Rare Earth Metals About To Get Even Rarer / Commodities / Metals & Mining

By: Jeb_Handwerger

What is so rare as a day in June, the poet asks? The answer..a sector in play, on a perfect day. The rare earth sector is experiencing an explosion of investment interest as China continues to place restrictions on Rare Earth Oxides (REO).

Monday, December 27, 2010

The Case For Buying Gold Today / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Howard_Katz

The establishment argument against gold comes down to the statement that it is a collectable that earns no yield.  Art, rare coins, stamps and gold and silver bullion do not earn a yield.  Stocks, bonds and real estate earn yields, so the prudent investor should focus on these assets rather than gold or precious metals.

Monday, December 27, 2010

No Signs of a Gold and Silver Bubble Despite Record Advances in 2010 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Przemyslaw_Radomski

History has been peppered with financial bubbles and we’ll get to that, but first, is gold in a bubble?

So far it's been the amazing, runaway investment of the past decade. If you'd put your money into gold at the lows about 10 years ago, you'd have made approximately 400% return. That's left pretty much everything else—stocks, China, housing—in the dust, and we don’t mean gold dust.

Monday, December 27, 2010

If You Haven't Bought Silver Yet, Read This / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: DailyWealth

Chris Weber writes: The last time I was able to identify a period when a precious metals correction was about over happened two years ago...

At that time, gold hit a low of $693 and silver $9.63. Since then, gold has risen about 100%, but silver has soared 206%. This is an extraordinary occurrence in just two years.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Rhodium Commodity Trading Thoughts / Commodities / Rhodium

By: Ned_W_Schmidt

RHODIUM TRADING THOUGHTS is about timely and profitable trading of precious metals. We do not believe every turn in the market can be called. Our goal is that our recommendations should be profitable. Profits are the goals, not trades. Do not expect all recommendations to be profitable. No system can achieve that lofty goal. Our goal is simply to state whether conditions for a metal are favorable or not. Buy signals are issued when appropriate. These signals are generally speaking for day they are issued. If price remains below signal price, buying can be done.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Commodities Top China’s Xmas Buy List / Commodities / Investing 2011

By: Sean_Brodrick

Commodities enjoyed a rip-roaring 2010. But as we close out the year, traders have to wonder: Is the bull party over? Will commodities slump in 2011? Not if China has anything to say about it.

China’s economy is growing at a 10% clip, and that is driving China’s demand for commodities of all types — crude oil, sugar, soybeans, copper and more — to new heights.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Crude Oil Prices at Two Year High / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: LiveCharts

Oil prices are pushing higher after reaching the highest mark in two years this week. A barrel of light sweet crude settled at $91.51, up $1.03, on the New York NYMEX Futures board Wednesday (December 23).

Oil pierced the $90 level earlier this week after spending most of the second half of 2010 moving up and down in the low to high $80s.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Crude Oil and Gasoline 2011 Forecast / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Dian_L_Chu

Just in time for Christmas, On Wednesday, Dec. 22, U.S. gasoline prices hit an average $3 a gallon for the first time in more than two years, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report. Meanwhile, U.S. stocks and oil also climbed to the highest levels since 2008.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Will Gold Price Fall in a Real Economic Recovery? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Julian_DW_Phillips

We have heard many commentators implying that a U.S. economic recovery that leads to the sort of growth that was seen before 2008 will give investors reasons to divest from gold. As the year end approaches and another year is on us, it seems wise to us to look at this carefully. All of us would dearly love to see a real recovery, with rising housing prices moving back to levels seen in 2008, strong employment data and consumers with plenty of disposable income to make life stress free again. In such a climate, one can understand that these desires would be accompanied by a fall in the gold price, which to many is a thermometer measuring the ailments of the developed world economies. But is that the reason that gold is at current levels?

Friday, December 24, 2010

Gold Stocks HUI Falling Wedge / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Clive_Maund

You can consider this Gold Market update to be gift wrapped. As I am unable to get presents to each and every reader this year for logistical reasons, these Gold and Silver Market updates are going to have to suffice, which is perfectly reasonable given how bullish they are.

Little has changed since the last updates were posted on the 5th December, but what change there has been has increased immediate upside potential in both gold and silver substantially, as the minor reaction in gold and sideways action in silver of recent weeks has served to further unwind the earlier overbought condition.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Silver Steep Uptrend About to Break Higher / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Clive_Maund

You can consider this Silver Market update to be gift wrapped. As I am unable to get presents to each and every reader this year for logistical reasons, these Gold and Silver Market updates are going to have to suffice, which is perfectly reasonable given how bullish they are.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Crude is hyper bullish while Gold is trying to find a bottom / Commodities / Commodities Trading

By: Bari_Baig

We start with Commodities today and they are strong regardless of the fact that U.S Dollar has been a lot stronger in last week but first and foremost, Crude WTI which we went all out bullish off 2 days back as we wrote “WTI is now trading at a discount of $3.51 to Brent and as Brent is making new highs then WTI must follow too and we mince our words at that”. As we write Crude WTI is now trading at $91.40 and Brent is still maintaining a healthy distance of nearly $3 even after WTI has pushed upward rather sharply. 

Friday, December 24, 2010

Investor Gold Profit, Protection Despite Banking Cartel Manipulation Intervention / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: DeepCaster_LLC

“Is the gold price being manipulated?  There are those who say no, while others say yes - notably The Gold Anti Trust Association (GATA) - and on balance it looks to an impartial observer (relatively) that the answer is probably in the affirmative.  But perhaps no more so than any other commodities and some stock prices.  There is a whole mammoth industry out there - the big banks, hedge funds etc. - whose whole purpose is to make money from money and the more you have in the first place the easier it is to do.  Not by producing anything useful, but through manipulation of prices through short selling in huge volumes to drive prices down, buying on the turn, allowing prices to rise back up, taking profits, then more short selling to drive prices down again and the cycle continues.  This works better in a bull market, which gold has been in for the past ten years or so.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Agri-Food's Impact on Christmas and 2011 Clothing Prices as Cotton Price Continues to Soar / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities

By: Ned_W_Schmidt

Hopefully, those of you celebrating Christmas included lots of clothing in your gift shopping.  Reason for that is giving or buying clothing is likely to become considerably more expensive in 2011.  Our first chart below portrays the rather dramatic move in U.S. cotton prices over the past 90 weeks. Most noticeable is the price burst since late Summer, when the world discovered that global demand for cotton exceeded the global supply of cotton.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

How Gold Can Protect Your Portfolio From the Economic Insanity / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Nick_Barisheff

Investors should be gravely concerned about the future of their portfolios, according to a newly released report from Bullion Management Group Inc (BMG). The reason? Because today’s fiscal and monetary policies have set the stage for a wrenching period of currency devaluation, portfolio destruction and potentially devastating inflation.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Premiums on British Gold Sovereigns and Eagle Demand Show Lack of "Irrational Exuberance" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: GoldCore

Gold has fallen marginally in all major currencies today. Market participants are winding down before the holiday break and further profit taking and year end book squaring is seeing volume fall and gold remain in a tight range. Gold will likely get direction from the durable goods orders, consumer sentiment and new home sales data later today.