Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Gold Mining Stocks on Verge of Breaking Out! / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Claus_Vogt
The long-term story for a gold and a gold mining stocks bull market is clear and easy to grasp: Dubious monetary policy and irresponsible fiscal policy with government debt rising all over the world are a surefire recipe for a surging demand in gold.
Toss in stagnant or even declining supply, and you have all the ingredients for much higher gold prices.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Gold Consolidates Near Record Highs Up 12% in Quarter; Silver Up 6% / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Risk aversion led to falls in equity and commodity markets yesterday but gold again managed to eke out a 0.5% gain. The complacency of recent months is being challenged by a raft of negative data and by increasingly precarious fundamentals. Concerns about Chinese and global economic growth and about the European banking system and sovereign debt are leading to continuing diversification into gold.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Gold Adds 12% for Q2 as S&P Drops 11%, Forex "Echoes 2008" Meltdown / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF BOTH gold and silver bullion ticked higher from yesterday's sell-off early in London on Wednesday, rising as Asian stocks caught up with Wall Street's sharp losses but European shares rallied.
Recording an AM London Gold Fix of $1240.50 per ounce, gold stood almost 12% higher in Dollar terms for the second quarter of 2010.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Commodities Are Key as China Continues to Call the Shots / Commodities / Investing 2010
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: China ended up being the big story this month, as investors looked past Europe to the Far East for clues about what shape the global recovery - if you can even call it that - is taking.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Gold, Silver and Austerity Versus Growth / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Bob_Kirtley
We will kick off with a look at gold as she dances and teases her way around the previous record highs in a ‘will she or will she not’ frame of mind, as analysts wait patiently for a sign to hit the button. Is that a buy button or a sell button you ask? Austerity versus Growth is now the order of the day.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Gold, Oil, Spills and Chills / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: HRA_Advisory
On the rare occasions that political rhetoric seems to understate a problem, it’s big. BP has a big problem in the Gulf of Mexico, which they are now properly laying out. Blaming the company for the spill is possibly a bit overdone since it was after all an accident. However, claiming they and by extension the industry haven’t been responsible enough with the work seems to be on the mark. This spill is going to impact deep water oil exploration and extraction for years to come. The cleanup will continue through the year, as will discussion of alternate energy sources.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Gold and the G20 Summit / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
World leaders met at the G20 in Toronto to discuss how they will work to get the global economy moving again. If you're new to the global economic forums like these, you might think that they're actually productive. However, if you've been around long enough to follow them for a few years, you'd realize that politicians from the top 20 economic countries show up just to lay out their idealistic plans that they'll never really complete.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Gold Price Sizzles As the U.S. Economy Fizzles / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Lorimer_Wilson
Chris Blasi writes: The straight-faced dissemination of transparently amateurish "official analysis" these days loudly proclaiming that an economic rebound is underway is so blatantly short on truth that it reveals a disturbing level of desperation to raise confidence.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Crop Cycles and Agri-Food's Price Inelasticity / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Investment world has many saying that have come down from those that went before us. They learned those lessons the hard way, by paying for them. We have been told, for example, that bears get rich and bulls get rich, while pigs are made into bacon. Many simply ignore the wisdom of the ages. In doing so, they must learn from their own mistakes rather than learning from those mistakes paid for with someone else's money.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Gold Plunges From Important Top as Global Stocks Slump / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD in wholesale dealing fell further in London on Tuesday morning, extending its drop to almost 2.5% from yesterday's near-record high, as world stocks sank and commodity prices also dropped.
Government bonds rose, pushing 10-year US Treasury yields down towards 3.0%.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Short Squeeze in Coffee and Sugar Could Soon be Seen in Gold and Silver Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold rose to nearly touch its record nominal high of $1,264/oz yesterday and reached a new record London PM fix at $1,261/oz at 1500 GMT. Gold then came under severe selling pressure despite no ostensible market moving data. Gold has traded sideways in Asian and early European trading despite stock markets falling on renewed risk aversion. European debt and funding concerns remain and are being added to by concerns about the economic recovery. China's stock market fell a very sharp 4% overnight on growth concerns and this has contributed to risk aversion.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Fractional Gold And Silver Accounts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
Deceit becomes fraud only when you can’t deliver
Many of those interested in Austrian economics have been waiting for what Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises called the crack up boom. My advice: Don’t wait. The crack-up boom may already have happened. Get ready for what’s next.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Is Gold About To Peak? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: David_Banister
Let me first start by saying I’ve been a long term “Gold Bull” since the fall of 2001, based both on economic factors as well as Elliott Wave patterns that I think are clear on Gold’s Bull rise. As we are now almost in a Fibonacci 21 months of Gold rally off the October 2008 bottom, I think this pattern is getting long in the tooth.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Gold Miners and Explorers Face Serious Supply Problems / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: The_Gold_Report
Geologist Brent Cook, of Exploration Insights, in this exclusive article for The Gold Report, takes a look at the major gold mining companies' dilemma—declining production as the gold price is hitting record levels. He also explains how the junior gold explorers are confronting a similar dilemma—fewer legitimate exploration properties with the real potential to host a major economic deposit. The rare micro-cap company that discovers a meaningful gold deposit is immediately in the sights of the cash-rich gold mining companies in need of new reserves. More importantly, anyone owning these junior companies, a few of whom are mentioned later, stands to make a substantial profit.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Gold Price Dips! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Steve_Betts
"The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad." --- Herbert Spencer - (1820-1903) British author, economist, philosopher
We might as well start the week out right and talk about gold. Today we see typical behavior with respect to the yellow metal as it grew gradually stronger in the morning as the spot price traded as high as 1,263.90. Then at 11 am EST someone came in and knocked the price down to 1,234.70 in a matter of thirty minutes or so. Right now at 12:35 am EST the spot price is trading at 1,242.50, and if things run true to form, the spot price will eventually crawl its way back up toward unchanged, or maybe even slightly higher. We saw similar reactions last week, it’s a commonplace occurrence going back more than a month, and investors find it upsetting. I know it upsets them because I read their e-mails! The problem is a matter of perception.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Did the G-8 Push Us Closer to Gold Confiscation? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
The global economic recovery is not looking good. The G-8 meeting this weekend saw divisions that could lead [as the I.M.F. put it] to losses of trillions of dollars and millions of jobs. Now it is reported that Mr. Bernanke and his close allies at the board in Washington are worried by signs that the U.S. recovery is running out of steam. The E.C.R.I. leading indicator published by the Economic Cycle Research Institute has collapsed to a 45-week low of -5.7 in the most precipitous slide for half a century. Such a reading typically portends contraction within three months or so.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Gold Price Manipulation Prior to Options Expiration Exposed / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Jason_Hamlin
Gold futures expire today, June 28th. If you follow the manipulation theories, it is just prior to expiration time, either in futures or options, that paper shorts increase their net short positions in order to manipulate precious metals (and stocks) downward. This allows the manipulators to profit as the contracts they sold to unwitting investors expire worthless. The sudden drop in price also provides an opportunity for the shorts to cover their positions, profiting via paying back their creditors with lower priced gold or equities.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Gold and Crude Oil are Mandatory Investments / Commodities / Investing 2010
By: Larry_Edelson
I put out my first major buy signal in gold way back in early 2000, when gold was trading at about $260 an ounce. I said then that gold was an easy double, moving to at least $500 over the next two years.
I told my readers to add to their gold positions in October 2004, when gold crossed above the $400 level …
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Gold Near Record High as Eurozone Faces Heavy Re-Financing in July / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD was little changed overnight in Asia and early Monday in London trade, holding within 0.5% of last week's all-time Dollar high as Tokyo stocks slipped but European share crept higher.
The MSCI index of world equities lost 3.5% last week in Dollar terms. Spot gold prices dropped $1 per ounce to $1256.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Gold Investing, The Art Of Speculation / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Howard_Katz
After the great gold bug victory of the 1970s, the economic establishment had been humiliated and disgraced. This was because none of them knew any economics. They all had gotten their fancy titles and positions by apologizing for the bankers’ privilege to create money. The bankers (and their associated vested interests) got rich. The American people got poor. (This is the first generation of Americans poorer than their parents.) And so it paid off for the bankers to hire a gang of charlatans, buy them fancy titles and infiltrate them into prestigious positions in academia so that they could use their prestige to defend the bankers’ privilege to create money.