Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Sunday, June 21, 2009
Gold Potential Long-term Double Top Pattern / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Gold dropped a little during the week but really went nowhere in the whole scheme of things. Lots of conversation about where gold is headed, in my local technical googlegroup. Here, you only get the simple, “where are we now?” and “what is the existing direction of trend?”. When things change my indicators will change and I will change with them.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
U.S. Congress Proposes Seling Crude Oil Reserves To Halt Price Increases / Commodities / Crude Oil
Inquiring minds are investigating legislation that would sell US oil reserves in an attempt to bring down the price of gasoline. Can such a scheme possibly work?
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Mickey Fulp Sees Bright Outlook in Junior Gold and Rare Earth Elements Sectors / Commodities / Metals & Mining
Well-known and highly regarded throughout the mining and exploration community, Mercenary Geologist Mickey Fulp returns to discuss the brightening prospects for the junior sector with The Gold Report readers. A Certified Professional Geologist, he is particularly intrigued these days by companies operating in “emerging environments” where the “geological potential is under-explored.” Another area of keen interest Mickey talks about in this exclusive interview is the re-emerging rare earths elements sector, a potential source of neodymium, lanthanum and heavy rare earth elements needed to produce energy-efficient hybrid vehicles.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Time to Buy Gold Stocks and Not the Metal? / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
The gold price average over the last year has risen to close to the current price. This means that the gold sales income of the mining companies has persisted for long-enough for the mining companies to have income available for payout to shareholders or to improve their Balance Sheet. This makes mining companies with their leverage to the gold price more attractive than the metal itself, currently. We let our subscribers know the shares we believe will give them the greatest overall return on their investment, so we restrict ourselves in this article to the underlying principles that guide us in our choice.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
How the Gold Bull Market Ended / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
"Who needed gold when a clampdown on speculation collided with strong real returns paid to cash? And who doesn't need at least a little today...?"
TUESDAY, 22nd JANUARY was a day like any other, only more so, as 1980 got under way.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Silver Gold Ratio Reversion Points to Serious Under Valuation of Silver / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Silver has endured a rather tough June so far. After peaking just under $16 on the 2nd, this white precious metal plunged 12% to just over $14 by the 15th. This is certainly a significant decline for less than 2 weeks, so silver traders are anxiously wondering what it portends. Will silver languish in the summer doldrums again this year?
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Trading Gold with the Gold Direction Indicator / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
In my last article, posted on May 13th, I drew your attention to the HUI index. The article was titled: “All eyes are on Huey”. The article pointed out that the HUI index was breaking out at 350. As it turned out Huey rose to 400, an increase of 14%. At that point I alerted my subscribers to take partial profits as it appeared that the index was going to test the breakout. My subscribers saw me take some money off the table, as I e-mailed the trading details the same day.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Gold Unmoved by IMF Gold Sales Approval / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
THE PRICE OF GOLD held in a tight range Friday morning in London, little changed from last week's close as government bonds ticked higher and world stock markets rose.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Key Support Could Trigger Bounce in Coffee / Commodities / Coffee
The recent drop back in Coffee has been deeper than expected, and price has quickly arrived at a key support area that we identified. This is a likely place from which a positive reaction can occur, and in the process avoid/postpone further bearish implications.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
What's Next for Gold and Gold Stocks / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
I am a big, big fan of Exter's liquidity pyramid. John Exter was a central bankster who worked at the federal reserve in the 1940s and 1950s. His concern about a global fiat money system, once it emerged, was that it would eventually blow out in a deflationary implosion rather than an inflationary one. This is not a common thesis, yet it is one I believe is being proven correct in front of our eyes.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
David Morgan Interviewed by Nancy Massicotte of The Opportunity Show / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Ellis Martin: Welcome to The Opportunity Show. I’m Ellis Martin. Today we have an interesting interview from Vancouver, British Columbia, with our correspondent Nancy Massicotte and The Silver Guru, David Morgan.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Mickey Fulp, Mercenary Geologist: Uranium Demand is There / Commodities / Uranium
Well-known and highly regarded throughout the mining and exploration community, Mercenary Geologist Mickey Fulp returns to discuss the brightening prospects for uranium and natural gas with The Energy Report readers. A Certified Professional Geologist, Mickey says he's comfortable focusing his hard-earned dollars in junior and mid-tier uranium companies working in the U.S. and Canada.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Musings from the 2009 World Resource Investment Conference / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
The recent 2009 World Resource Investment Conference was moved to the new Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver BC, constructed in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The fresh venue for the conference did not seem to carry the enthusiasm equal to the new venue or previous conferences at the neighboring waterfront convention center.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
China Commodities Undercut U.S. Dollar / Commodities / China
China is directing their mountain of reserves away from acquired mining firms and toward managed hedge funds. This is a new direction for Beijing, clearly in response to the refusal by Rio Tinto to permit a $19 billion stake from the Chinese aluminum giant Chinalco. They were frustrated and angered by the other refusal with the failed Unocal dea in 2005. Clearly, whether stated openly or not, the Chinese are thwarted by USGovt and UKGovt hidden leaders from investing in strategic firms. From their point of view, tarnished by ill feelings, their money is good for credit supply but not good for commodity supply lines. So China will continue its pursuit of significant interests in commodity firms, both metals and energy related, and will amplify the pressures by taking scattered interests in hedge funds,
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Gold Finds Support, as Bank Regulation & Moral Hazard Spark Political Rows / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
THE SPOT PRICE OF GOLD held steady in a tight range early Thursday, unchanged for the week after Monday's 1.4% drop, as European shares fell for the fifth day running.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Gold Pushes Higher on World Bank China Growth Forecast / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
The long term trend line price of gold at $925, which has been steady since Monday, pushed higher today based on news that the World Bank has raised its growth forecast for China. The Chinese stock market rallied as did commodities across the board. Another main factor behind the return of bullish sentiment for gold is the euro.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Gold, Oil and Natural Gas ETF Trading Report & Forecasts / Commodities / Exchange Traded Funds
Gold has provided two excellent trades for us this year; both had less than 3% downside risk. With any luck we will have another trade soon. Gold has been forming a large reverse head and shoulder pattern since early March and currently trying to form the right shoulder. If this pattern completes and the price breaks the neck line at the $99 level we should see a nice rally towards the $120 - $130 level.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
How to Forecast Stock and Commodity Asset Prices Part2 / Commodities / Inflation
Pick a Number...Any Number, "We didn't abandon the money-supply aggregates. They abandoned us..."
TIME WAS that central banks targeted and fretted about keeping their currency stable against the Dollar.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Russian President Calls IMF to Expand SDR's to Include Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Yesterday's comments by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the BRIC summit, calling upon the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to expand the currency basket of Special Drawing Rights to include the Chinese yuan, commodity currencies and gold in order that it matures into a reserve currency, is positive for gold as it shows how gold is again being viewed as an important monetary asset.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
China’s Got a New Currency… and It Sure AIN’T the Dollar / Commodities / China
Let’s talk about China.
China is the US’s largest creditor. All told, the People’s Republic has $700+ billion in US Treasuries. However, if you account for other dollar denominated investments, China is believed to have 70% of its $1.7 trillion in foreign reserves sitting in green backs.
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