Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Rope to the Hyper-Inflationalists, Which direction the silver and gold price? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Gold remains in narrow trading range / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
The price of an ounce of gold has remained fairly steady, in the $900 range, since May. The current spot gold rate in early New York trade is $947.80 per ounce, a gain of $2.90 so far on the day.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Gold's Sluggish Summer Near Its End as Huge US Debts Threaten the Dollar / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
THE PRICE OF GOLD drifted sideways in what one Hong Kong dealer called "sluggish" trade early Wednesday, briefly touching $950 an ounce as a rally in Asian stock markets failed to carry over to Europe.
The Gold Price in Sterling rose to £582 an ounce, its best level since June 10th, as the Pound sank to a 6-week low on the forex market.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Peak Oil, Crude Oil Supply Data Doesn't Lie / Commodities / Crude Oil
ENERGY - After the epic crash last year, the price of oil is stabilising and it should rise exponentially over the following years. Over the past year, global consumption has stayed weak, however once the economy recovers, crude oil should resume its secular bull-market.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
The Metastasis of Moral Hazard and its Effect on Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
To those who study the numbers, it is now obvious that America’s fiscal situation is hopeless. Given the country’s current debt and unfunded liabilities of $75,000,000,000,000, an amount growing by at least $5,000,000,000,000 per year, it will be statistically impossible for the United States to pay its obligations unless it repudiates them in large measure, or the dollar is sacrificed on the altar of searing, society-altering inflation.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The Metals Resource Investment Story Is Not Over / Commodities / Metals & Mining
Not many investors anticipated the devastation 2008 would visit upon the markets. Nonetheless, shrewd advisors sought, as always, to limit risk by investing in a wide array of sectors. Looking to do just that, Malcolm Gissen and Marshall Berol started a no-load mutual fund—the Encompass Fund—in June 2006. Like others, the fund suffered a steep decline in Q408, but has since witnessed a pretty dramatic recovery. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Malcolm and Marshall share why they believe "we're still in the early innings" of the resource investment game and foresee a bright future for the all-star junior miners.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Gold $1000 or Bust / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Listen carefully, dear gold bug. You are living in a world which is insane. All around you are the incredibly stupid people who, in the past, believed that the earth was flat and that one could fly by standing on a magic carpet. From every source of opinion comes the 21st century version of those beliefs.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Gold Stuck in Narrow Range, Waiting for the Seasonal Rally / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
THE PRICE OF GOLD pushed higher overnight in Asia and early Tuesday in London, unwinding half of yesterday's 1.5% drop as the US Dollar eased back, together with world stock markets.
Crude oil retreated from Monday's new 2009 highs, while government bond prices rose.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Peak Oil has Peaked, Crude Oil About to Rollover / Commodities / Crude Oil
and the price of crude is about to roll over. My previous piece on oil allowed for the possibility of a double top in crude oil, and I think that is what we are getting. A "big picture" overview of the oil bull market follows using a 12 year weekly log scale chart of the price of crude ($WTIC):
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Agri-Food's impact of Indian Drought and Contracting U.S. Farmland Acreage / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
Years have passed since investors seemed to pay attention to anything other than the latest short-term, but irrelevant, number of the day. Perhaps the ESPN approach being applied to business news is part of the reason for that. What might happen next week or next year seems of little concern. However, next week and next year have a habit of becoming today over time.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Rhodium, The Most Precious Precious Metal? / Commodities / Rhodium
The Platinum Group Metal With Very Interesting FundamentalsIntroduction
While gold and it’s very attractive little sister silver have attracted the attention of some investors of late, there is a metal that is far, far rarer and has fundamentals that merit investment consideration. Some consider it the ultimate symbol of wealth—above and beyond gold, silver or platinum—because of its price and very significant rarity.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
American's Striving to be Free / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Well, our world is definitely in the throes of wild and wooly change.
The United States has begun losing its dreams. It doesn’t even know how to dream anymore. Its only goal is getting rich in the next bubble. Its only hope is winning 1 million dollars by retirement. Doesn’t want to make anything. Doesn’t want to produce anything. Walla! Its dreams are being answered. All the jobs are south and east. So, with no worry over the difficult task of employment the US can concentrate on its hope of prosperity without producing anything.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Gold Still Range Bound But Investors Hedging Their Bets on Dollar and Stocks / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
THE PRICE OF GOLD briefly added to last week's gains early in London on Monday, rising to $957 an ounce before slipping back as Asian equities jumped and European shares hit fresh 10-month highs.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Hot Gold Stocks, Drop Bears and Market Timing / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
Share price action has been patchy but exciting in many cases over the last few months. We called a correction at GoldOz and were right for the overall majority of the gold equities sector. However this has been a bit of a “drop bear” rather than a “bear market” type of correction – why? Numerous hot “multi-baggers” in our short list on the Gold Members pages have performed strongly as their share prices doubled, tripled and quadrupled or better.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Silver Unusual Divergence From Strengthening Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
There has been an unusual divergence between silver and gold over the past few weeks - gold's COT structure has improved while silver's has continued to deteriorate, against a background of a technical picture that looks considerably weaker than that for gold.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Gold Upside Breakout Alert! / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
UPSIDE BREAKOUT ALERT: gold is now believed to be very close to an upside breakout to new highs, a development that should lead to a rapid advance towards the $1300 area, and it should be noted that this scenario will not be negated by a brief sharp drop that may be aimed at wrong-footing a lot of traders.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Gold, Silver and Energy Sector Analysis / Commodities / Commodities Trading
Precious metals like gold and silver appear to be forming a bullish pennant formation, which generally leads to higher prices. Currently the US dollar is hovering around a support level, which is the 76- 79 range. Only time will tell if the US$ breaks down sending gold to new highs in the coming months.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Gold and Silver Mining stocks are Trading Sideways, Consolidation or Another Top? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Various news media reported this week that demand for gold sank to a five and a half year low in the second quarter of 2009 after jewelry consumption dropped by more than one fifth. This sounds discouraging, but before jumping to final conclusions, let’s take a closer look at the data itself (courtesy of World Gold Council). Let’s keep in mind that journalists can sometimes slant the figures, or ignore those that don’t fit their story.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Gold Sideways Megaphone Pattern Continues, Is the U.S. Dollar the Key? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Gold is still in that megaphone pattern and still going nowhere but sideways. One would expect that it can’t continue like this much longer but who knows?
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Profiting From the Showdown at the Precious Metals CorralĀ / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
The Fundamentals for Gold and Silver have rarely been more bullish.
Peace has not “broken out” in many places in the world.
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