Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
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Friday, May 08, 2009
HUI Gold Stocks Bullish Technicals / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Zeal_LLC
Over the 6 months since the height of the stock panic in late November, commodities stocks have probably been the best-performing sector. While general stocks slumped to new lower lows in early March, commodities stocks surged. Their bullish fundamentals drove 50% to 100%+ gains over the S&P 500’s exact low-to-low span!
Friday, May 08, 2009
Gold Bull Market Momentumn Building / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
THE SPOT PRICE of gold rose for the sixth session running on Friday, reaching the best Gold Fix in London in five weeks before dropping half-a-per-cent – and outpacing a drop in the Dollar – as world stock markets and commodities also slipped back.
The Euro jumped above $1.35 to the Dollar for the first since April 5th on news of smaller-than-expected US job losses last month.
Friday, May 08, 2009
Upside Down Gold Trend and the Great Credit Contraction / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: David_Morgan
John Exter was an internationally known banker and a gold bug in the true sense of the word. He graduated from Harvard and was present when Keynesian economics first came to the fore. He lived through World War I, witnessed the founding of the Federal Reserve, the Great Depression, and the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He also presided over the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Mr. Exter’s work can be found on the Internet with a simple Google search.
Friday, May 08, 2009
Gold Rises on Investor and Central Bank Demand / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold rose for the fourth day yesterday and is up some 3.5% so far this week and set to complete a very strong week. As expected, under reported and leveraged silver has outperformed gold and surged more than 12% this week. A close above $14.60/oz, could see silver again challenge recent nominal highs at $20.88/oz.
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
Silver Leads Gold Higher as U.S. Dollar Teeters on the Brink / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Jim_Willie_CB
In a bizarre exercise intended to defend legitimacy, the bankers are engaged in a complex game of propaganda. They pressured the USCongress to relieve Wall Street from the chains of FASB Rule #157, and the senators & representatives obeyed their paying masters. The result has been a baseless stock rally led by insolvent banks that have lied desperately about their capital and earnings. The announced audited Citigroup profit of $1.6 billion in the first quarter was actually a deep $2.5 billion loss, provided the $4.1 billion in gimmickry was removed. The gimmicks pertained to toxic assets valued at fictitious model, shell games on loss reserves management, and illicit debt markdowns on the balance sheet. Thanks to Martin Weiss for the autopsy of Citigroup, the biggest zombie strutting in the global financial sector.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Gold GLD and Natural Gas UNG, Splicing with Gene & Thom / Commodities / Investing 2009
By: The_Gold_Report
Thom Calandra of Ticker Trax™ and Gene Arensberg of Got Gold Report go way back as friends, colleagues and students of natural resources. They’re talking about tracking the people worth their salt in metals and mining.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Gold Today and Nasdaq 1995, Secular Bull Market Fundementals / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
There are technical and fundamental similarities in all bull markets. In the case of Gold today and the Nasdaq in the mid 1990s, there are several key technical similarities. I will show these in two charts.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
How Will Chinese Central Bank Gold Buying Impact the Gold Price Short and Long-Term? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
Hu Xiaolian, head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) informed us last week that the country's gold reserves had risen by 454 tonnes from 600 tonnes since 2003, when China last adjusted its state gold reserves figure.
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
Gold Hits 5-Week High as ECB Admits to "Quantitative Easing" / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF PHYSICAL gold spiked to its highest level since the start of April in London trade on Thursday, jumping above $923 before slipping $7 per ounce as the forex, commodity and equity markets leapt on a move to "Quantitative Easing" by the European Central Bank (ECB).
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
Gold Price Technical Analysis: Major Trend Direction / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: INO
Today we're going to take a look at the gold market. While many traders have been frustrated with this market for the past several month, it has in fact performed quite well given the generally negative feeling for most markets.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Natural Gas UNG ETF in Bullish Formation / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Mike_Paulenoff
My near-term pattern work in the U.S. Natural Gas Fund ETF (NYSE: UNG) indicates that 1) the upmove from the double bottom at 12.69 exhibits bullish form into today’s high at 15.09, and 2) that the initial upleg of a very powerful recovery advance has started – that should climb into the 15.25/50 area at most before the UNG should enter a downside corrective move. If such a scenario unfolds, then the next loop down, from 15.40 (for example) to 14.00 (let’s say) should set up an extremely bullish entry window ahead of a vertical liftoff towards 18.00.
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Gold Rises on Safe-Haven Demand / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
THE SPOT PRICE of Gold rose early Wednesday in Asia and London, recording a morning Gold Fix of $903.50 an ounce as emerging-world stock markets rose yet again, adding 41% from March's low.
Base metals and energy prices also pushed higher, and crude oil broke back above $54 per barrel as government bond prices fell.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Why Gold Looks Ready to Move Much Higher / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Claus Vogt writes: I want to start off my first regular Money and Markets column with a simple statement: I am not a hardcore gold bug.
In other words, I am not always out looking for reasons to justify owning gold. I do not even believe gold is a productive asset!
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Gold to Remain Firm Due to Inflationary Pressures / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold and silver rose marginally yesterday as the dollar again fell. Gold initially surged gold to over $914/oz (from $901/oz) prior to determined selling capped the price and saw it again fall below the psychologically important $900/oz mark. Silver was again more resilient and rose 2.8% to $13.40/oz. Both have gradually eked out gains in Asia and early European trading.
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Peter Zihlmann: Junior Gold and Silver Mining Stocks a Bargain? / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: The_Gold_Report
What to buy—gold or gold shares? While many argue that bullion is the better investment, Peter Zihlmann of P. Zihlmann Investment Management makes a compelling case for gold shares with a focus on junior miners. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Peter explains how gold shares have actually outperformed the yellow metal at a ratio of 5-to-1 since the start of the bull market.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Positive Enviroment for Agri-Foods Continues to Manifest Itself / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Sufficient time has passed since the joyful bursting of the hedge fund bubble to allow for us to begin to assess what is rising from the ashes, and what will not. We can be fairly confident that what went on before will not be what goes on next. Financial markets rarely repeat the same mistakes immediately. Enough time must pass to allow all to forget the previous transgressions. Technology stocks did not rise again to lead in the last run in the financial markets. Banks and finance companies will not lead in the next. Financial markets will be seeking out new themes. Investors need to dig around, perhaps in the dirt, for the those next sets of investment ideas.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Gold Jumps as U.S. Dollar Falls / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
THE SPOT PRICE of physical gold leapt 1.4% for US investors early Tuesday, unwinding the final third of last week's losses as the US Dollar fell hard on the currency market.
Retouching a one-week high for UK and European buyers – even as the Euro moved back above $1.34 and the British Pound broke its best level in 2009 at $1.51 – the Gold Price rose alongside Asian and London stocks, which added to Monday's sharp gains on Wall Street.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Russia's Gazprom's Revenue Slumps / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: Pravda
The reduction in demand for natural gas turned out for Gazprom to be an almost fivefold profit slump. It can be explained with the reduction of gas consumption in the far and near abroad as well as with the price cut on European long-term contracts and the January transit crisis with Ukraine. The Central Asian plots did their bit too: Gazprom gets the Asian gas three times more expensive now, The Vedomosti newspaper wrote.
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Gold and Silver Falling Despite Bullish Fundementals / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold and silver both fell some 3% last week despite increasingly bullish technicals and fundamentals. Risk appetite remains high as seen in equity markets onward advance in the face of falling earnings and latent risk. Yesterday gold and silver soared as US stock markets opened and eked out strong gains of 1.8% and over 4% respectively, erasing last week’s losses.
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Monday, May 04, 2009
The MOST Important Investment You Can Make! / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Larry Edelson writes: Now, to be sure all my readers know what I consider the most important investment you can make, or will ever make, in addition to reading my column published last Monday on my top three gold mining shares, today I want to make absolutely certain you also own physical gold.
Why? Because no portfolio is safe from today’s whirlwind of events and economic forces without gold.
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