Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Gold Taking a Breather After Recent Plunge / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Merv_Burak
After a sharp drop leading into the long weekend last week gold seemed to have just taken a breather and moved sideways this week. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what the next week brings.
TIME PERIODS
As you may have noticed while reading these commentaries they are separated into three time periods called long term, intermediate term and short term. Why bother, you might ask.
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Why Natural Gas Will Replace Coal And Possibly Crude Oil In The Future / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Submissions
Natural gas in the past few years has been becoming increasingly popular due to reduced emissions, high efficiency, and effective and easy usage in all sectors of the economy .Also natural gas industry has been greatly helped by the Green movement , that wants the developing and developed nations to cleaner sources of energy.
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Crude Oil Tracks Stocks Upwards to Close Week Above $76 a Barrel / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: OilPrice_Com
Crude oil futures finished the week on a positive note, tracking stocks upward after hitting the low for a month earlier in the week.The benchmark West Texas intermediate contract settled Friday at $76.09 a barrel, up 65 cents on the day. On Tuesday, the contract declined for the sixth session in a row, closing at $71.98, its first dip below $72 in a month.
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Theories of Relativity for Buying Gold and Silver Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: The_Gold_Report
Stansberry & Associates Investment Research founder Porter Stansberry, who built his reputation on finding safe-value investments poised to give his followers years of exceptional returns and also has a reputation as an independent thinker with a penchant for "out-of-consensus" viewpoints, has tweaked his toolkit to help investors hedge a bit against volatility while protecting themselves against the collapsing fiat currency system. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, he shares some of the techniques that you might consider Porter's own theories of relativity. Buy gold stocks when they're cheap compared to the price of bullion. Stock up on silver when the silver-to-gold relationship soars well past its historic 15:1 ratio. Pick up corporate bonds when they trade at a big discount relative to par.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
The BIS 382 tonne Gold Swap - Good or Bad for Gold and Why? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
In its 2010 annual report, the Bank of International Settlements said that "gold, which the bank held in connection with gold swap operations, under which the bank exchanges currencies for physical gold," stands at 8,160.1 million in special drawing rights, equivalent to 346 tonnes this year, up from nil in 2009." Apparently this amount has now climbed to 382 tonnes since the report was issued.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Why the 21st century will the century of modular nuclear reactors / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Submissions
Maninder Singh Batra writes: In the 20th century , the age was oil and coal , and with the birth of nuclear power .to achieve economies of scale with nuclear power generation , large monolithic reactors were used. But these large monolithic plants were costly ,took large time to build and were capital intensive .
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Gold, Double Stock Dips and Double Silver Tops / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
You read a lot recently about “double dip” and it does not refer to two scoops of ice cream, or to the Jerry Seinfeld episode when George takes a large tortilla chip, dips it into a bowl of dip, bites into it and dips it into the bowl again, much to the utter disgust of the person standing next to him.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Gold Bubble Talk is Just Fear Mongering / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Lorimer_Wilson
Many market participants and commentators are obviously having a hard time distinguishing between a bull market and a bubble. More and more articles are referring to the imminent burst of the “gold bubble” and to an alleged “crowded trade” but the facts quickly put such fear-mongering into perspective.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Gold's Seasonal Cycle, Time to Buy? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
Buying gold in July or August only failed to pay once by year's-end since this bull market began...
SO WE GOT an abrupt switch in the short-Euro, long-gold trade last week.
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Friday, July 09, 2010
Gold Market Manipulated by U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Bob_Chapman
Recently we were again witness to three gold market takedowns. The first was engineered just prior to and into gold and silver options expiration. Then prior to the ETF GLD gold option expiry and the last manipulative attack commenced just prior to the dreadful unemployment housing and inventory statistics. This sort of action began in 1988 with the signing of the Executive Order by President Ronald Reagan entitled the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets,” ostensibly created to neutralize events such as the October 1987 collapse of the US stock market.
Friday, July 09, 2010
Gold and Silver Rally as Scrap Sales Dry Up / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
SPOT-MARKET PRICES for wholesale gold crept back above $1200 an ounce in London on Friday, recovering half of this week's 2.2% drop as world stock markets pushed higher again.
The US Dollar and Japanese Yen both rose against the Euro and British Pound, while German bunds and UK gilts rose on weak inflation data, nudging yields lower.
Friday, July 09, 2010
Silver is Seriously Underpriced / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Richard_Daughty
At breakfast I told the kids that I was instituting some new austerity measures around here, and they became so insistent that I heard all about how this was going to “ruin” them and their stupid social lives that I did not have to tell them that I was going to use the money to buy silver, which would have sent them ballistic.
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Friday, July 09, 2010
Gold to be Supported by Massive Fiscal Challenges Facing the US and Western Economies / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold fell $2.50 to $1195.30/oz yesterday and is now down 1% on the week. It traded sideways in Asia and down in early European trading. Another lower weekly close will again be bearish technically and would suggest that further retrenchment and consolidation may take place. A higher close today and on the week would help reverse the technical damage done recently.
Friday, July 09, 2010
Natural Gas Bulls Need to do More Now / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
During Apr/May Natural Gas started to find support after earlier weakness this year. Initial bull signals have now been given but the chart has reached the point where bulls need to up their game and push the market higher to confirm a positive outlook.
Friday, July 09, 2010
Gold prices at $10,000? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Bob_Kirtley
Forecasts for gold prices vary dramatically from $500/oz to as high as $15,000/oz and some go even higher, so we tracked back to when we started this web site and dug up our original forecast for gold prices found in an article entitled ‘Reasons to invest in Gold‘ posted on June 19th, 2006, four years ago when gold was trading at $562.30/oz. This is what we wrote back then:
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Friday, July 09, 2010
Gold Seasonality – Time to Buy? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Jason_Hamlin
In statistics, many time series exhibit cyclic variation known as seasonality. In my market research days, seasonality was a very important and accurate predictive indicator for my clients. This data was used to determine production, inventory, sales forecasts and strategically to determine the best times to promote products or offer price discounts.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Time to Board the Gold Stocks Train? / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Jeff_Clark
By Jeff Clark, Senior Editor, Casey’s Gold & Resource Report
One of the big hints that gold stocks will be ready for take-off is when they stop following the broader markets and strictly track gold, particularly if the market falls and gold stocks don’t. We now have data showing this has just occurred.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
Gold Struggling Near $1200 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF PHYSICAL gold bounced from a new 6-week low early in London on Thursday, but struggled to hold above $1200 an ounce as world stock markets jumped together with commodity prices.
Silver prices touched a 1-week high at $18.24 an ounce as the gold price in Dollars rallied from its May 25th low at $1186.16.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Gold To be Supported by Negative Real Interest Rates / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold fell to an inter day six week low yesterday of $1,184.75/oz yesterday before a strong rebound which saw it close higher on the day at $1,197.80/oz. It rose above $1200/oz in Asian trade to $1,207.75/oz prior to giving up some of those gains in early European trade. Many traders and investors who have nee on the sideline in recent weeks see the present sell off as a buying opportunity.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Gold Below $1,200 Despite U.S. Dollar Concerns / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: LiveCharts
It is a bit unusual, but gold prices are currently falling in line with US economic concerns, equity index drops, and dollar losses. Typically, gold is known as the “safe money” investment when there is economic uncertainty.
The Wednesday (July 7) morning gold price spot rate is $1,193.50. This is down slightly from a Tuesday close of $1,194.10 and it is sharply lower from Monday’s New York closing price of $1,208.90.
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