Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Crude Oil Prices Show Little Momentum for Breaking Through $80 Barrier / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: OilPrice_Com
Prices of crude oil futures slumped below $79 a barrel on Friday despite a stock market rally and the rise of Tropical Storm Bonnie in the Gulf of Mexico.The downward turn on Friday followed a sharp gain Thursday amid positive corporate earnings reports that some saw as a signal of economic recovery and the brewing tropical storm.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Silver, Beware of Who You Buy From / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
With silver attracting headlines, cult-like following, and higher prices, silver investors should be on high alert for a scam being perpetrated on the internet. Newly minted fake coins are finding their way from Chinese counterfeiters to Ebay and then to investors who unknowingly purchase $20 rounds that are in reality only a few dollars worth of metals. As prices tread higher, these scams will only continue to grow in their influence. Here's a simple guide to evaluate silver, and whether or not it is indeed real:
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
How to Pull Cash Out of Your Silver Holdings Without Losing Ounces / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
With silver on a bull run, you might be tempted to take some cash out of your silver holdings. However, if you're like most silver investors, who have an array of different silver coins, rounds, and other metal pieces, you might just be able to cash in without reducing your total holdings.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
U.S. Economy Never Came Out of Recession, Pray and Hold onto Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: The_Gold_Report
Newsletter Writer Ron Struthers is an old-school straight talker who doesn't mince words. Ron believes the U.S. economy never came out of the 2008 recession and predicts America is about to face a whole new set of debt problems at the state level. "Any one of the U.S. states is bigger than Greece and 40 or more of them are in the same bad shape," he warns. Ron recommends investors fortify their portfolios with 15%–20% physical gold and another 40% in cash, ready to jump on any opportunities the moody markets present. In this short but sweet interview with The Gold Report, Ron also offers some of his favorite gold and silver plays, many of which are in Mexico. ¡Ole!
Friday, July 23, 2010
Gold BubbleOmics Revisited / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Andrew_Butter
The recent gyrations of the Gold price are rather typical of a bubble about to pop, with lows coming in lower than the upward trend-line of lows. Although figuring out exactly when a bubble will pop is a bit like figuring out when a volcano will blow…there are rumblings, false alarms…more rumblings…and everyone says “don’t be a scaredy-cat” then….BOOM.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Gold Market Spooked by Deflationary Double-Dip Recession Fears / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: David_Galland
Last week, the price of gold again broke below its new base at $1,200, and the U.S. stock market was again under strong pressure, due to a confluence of fears, most of which point to a deflationary double-dip. The fears were fanned by disappointment in the just-released early quarterly results, by the latest CPI reports that show inflation continuing to moderate, and by yet another poll revealing faltering consumer confidence.
Friday, July 23, 2010
U.S. Dollar's Never-Ending Plunge and Its Gold Consequences / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
The previous weeks have been characterized by a steady pattern - USD Index is either plunging or is consolidating and it's likely to plunge within several days. The general truth is that no trend moves in any direction in the form of a straight line. Yet, so far the dollar tries to prove this saying incorrect by moving lower over and over again.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Gold and Silver For Investor Profit and Protection / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
Equities-in-general have gone nowhere for the past decade (and have lost 30% or more when their prices are adjusted for inflation), and are in a Bear Market, with no end realistically in sight.
And most Bonds and CD’s provide niggardly or negative returns after adjusting for Real Inflation.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Both Euro and Gold Lower / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The markets appear to be very nervous in general and particularly nervous about the EU stress test results, which have pressed the euro lower versus the U.S. dollar, which makes sense, but also has been accompanied by a sell-off in spot gold from $1204 to $1190. The gold sell-off does not make sense in relation to the flight away from euros, but is understandable if some investors continue to use any strength in gold to liquidate long positions to raise cash.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Gold Diverging Trend From Weak U.S. Monetary Inflation / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
We seem to do a lot of waiting. As 2009 ended, U.S. dollar was being forecast to be approaching the end of its existence. Presumably, we must continue to wait for that event. Moving on, forecasters had more recently been calling for imminent collapse of EU and vaporization of the Euro. Presumably, we must continue to wait for that event too. Many are still forecasting an imminent replacement of global currencies with Gold. Presumably, we must continue to wait for that too.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Oil Stocks XOI Undervalued / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: Zeal_LLC
Oil stocks have to be one of the most unloved sectors in the markets today. The recent general-stock-market and oil corrections combined with the incredibly-negative psychology spawned by the BP oil spill have driven oil stocks down to deeply-oversold levels. This swoon has also left this sector very undervalued, a barren wasteland strewn with great bargains for investors.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Market Vectors Gold Miners GDX ETF Forming A Top / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Guy_Lerner
Figure 1 is a weekly chart of the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (symbol: GDX). The pink and black dots represent key pivot points or areas of support (buying) and resistance (selling). There are two bearish signs that point to GDX forming a market top.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Gold Market Manipulation, Swaps Signal the Roadmap Ahead, BIS The Super SIV Solution / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Gordon_T_Long
The news rocked the global gold market when an almost obscure line item in the back of a 216 page document released by an equally obscure organization was recently unearthed. Thrust into the unwanted glare of the spotlight, the little publicized Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is discovered to have accepted 349 metric tons of gold in a $14B swap. Why? With whom? For what duration? How long has this been going on? This raises many questions and as usual with all $617T of murky unregulated swaps, we are given zero answers. It is none of our business!
Friday, July 23, 2010
Gold Breaks $1200 as Europe's Secretive Bank-Stress Tests Fail to Reassure Investors / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD rose to a 5-session high above $1200 an ounce early Friday, showing a week-on-week gain for US, Euro and Japanese investors but holding unchanged against Sterling and Swiss Francs.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
How to Buy Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes:
As an analyst and editor who specializes in the natural-resources sector, I spend a lot of time writing about gold, gold mining, and gold investing. Those are popular - and even emotional - topics with investors, which means that the columns, essays and advisories I write tend to generate a lot of comments and questions.
I think that's great. After all, an engaged investor tends to be a successful investor.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Gold and Silver Bubble? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: John_Browne
In the first few days of July, the prices of gold and silver appeared to break a five-month upward trend by drawing back about five per cent from the record June peaks. Despite many similar corrections that have occurred frequently during the long bull market in precious metals, pundits nevertheless looked to draw bold and significant conclusions from the drop. But just as investors were getting comfortable with the leading explanation - that a looming double dip recession will prevent inflation and thereby dampen demand for precious metals - the markets for both metals stabilized.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Solving the Uranium Price Puzzle / Commodities / Uranium
By: The_Gold_Report
Apparently flouting the law of supply and demand and mystifying experts and analysts alike, depressed uranium prices present some excellent bargain-hunting opportunities for investors, according to Mercenary Geologist Mickey Fulp. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Mickey shares some thoughts about his favorite players in the uranium space. He's also keeping an eye on natural gas stocks.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
The Coming Silver Price Supernova / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Lorimer_Wilson
“Few investment opportunities arise in our lifetime like silver. The stage is set for a silver price percentage gain of extraordinary magnitude! Forget the popular refrain of “Got Gold?” and make some additions to your portfolio to take advantage of the coming silver supernova!"
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Natural Gas UNG ETF Takes Off / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Ahead of natural gas inventory data at 10:30am ET, the U.S. Natural Gas Fund ETF (UNG) has rocketed from 7.60 above key near-term resistance at 7.78/80 in what looks like a bullish surge out of its week-long consolidation area.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Can OPEC Beat The Black Swans ? / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Andrew_McKillop
Cheap oil doesnt help economic growth - Only about 10 years ago New Economists chimed that oil and gold are Sunset Commodities.
So abundant, so low utility for the fastfood and finance derivatives based all-modern world of
supermarket caddy wheelers and M&A guzzlers, that their price would just fade and drift
away to nothing. Quite soon, they hinted, oil will be free and gold will be a harmless and
cheap barbarous relic, just like Keynes always said.