Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, October 10, 2008
Gold Breaks Higher as Global Stock Markets Crash / Commodities / Gold & Silver
SPOT GOLD PRICES to a new 11-week high early Friday before slipping back to $905 an ounce for US investors as world stock markets plunged into what's now the worst five-day crash since the wipe-out of Oct. 1987.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, October 10, 2008
Canadian Junior Gold Miners on Sale / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
Investors of precious metals companies continue to suffer along with virtually all investors in the world as this financial meltdown continues.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, October 10, 2008
Gold Surges on Safe Haven Stock Market Panic Buying / Commodities / Gold & Silver
While gold has again surged on safe haven buying overnight (and is up since 20% since the financial and economic crisis deepened), there is increasing surprise that gold has not surged to its recent record highs especially as there are deepening shortages of retail bullion internationally and the gold holdings of gold ETFs continue to surge.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, October 10, 2008
Methods for Estimating the Price of Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver
There are several different approaches to calculating a theoretical price for gold. The purpose of this essay is to calculate this figure using two different methods. For each, the total ounces of gold above ground will be divided by:Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, October 10, 2008
Gold Price Manipulation- Bear Stearns Murdered at the Golden Gates / Commodities / Market Manipulation
Much has already been written about the untimely demise of investment bank Bear Stearns. Most, if not all, that has been written to date – deals with issues related to equities / expiring options – or the share price.
Recently, new information has come to light which allows us to forensically examine the demise of Bear Stearns from a completely different angle – GOLD .
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Thursday, October 09, 2008
Gold Ready to Skyrocket? / Commodities / Gold & Silver
Hi, this is Adam Hewison. I have just finished a new video on gold that I would like you to see. This new video deals with some of the strange events that we've been going through the past two or three weeks, or in some cases several months.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
7 Trillion Reasons to Own Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver
Sean Brokerick writes: In just a few short weeks, America has gone from looking at a potential economic downturn to staring into an economic abyss.
In a matter of days , confidence in the Federal Reserve's ability to unfreeze our nation's credit markets has nearly vanished.
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Gold New Record High on Panic Interest Rate Cuts / Commodities / Gold & Silver
SPOT GOLD PRICES leapt once again in London trade on Wednesday, reaching $915 an ounce for US investors as the US Federal Reserve led a co-ordinated cut of 0.5% to major world interest rates.Currencies were left little changed against each other, but the Gold Price in British Pounds jumped to a new all-time record above £525 an ounce.
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Emergency Central Bank Interest Rate Cuts Boost Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver
Gold rallied yesterday on increasing risk aversion as stock markets continued to crash internationally (gold closed at $880.70 up $18 and silver closed at $11.34 up 7 cents).Gold has surged to new record highs in most major currencies including the Australian dollar, British pound (£517) and Euro (€662) as the global contagion deepens. Therefore, gold is again acting independently of the dollar and despite recent dollar strength has rallied sharply in all major currencies.
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Severe Bull Market for Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver
Seeing beyond the blind curves of bailouts and meltdowns takes the keen vision of a veteran market observer, Roger Wiegand, Editor of Trader Tracks . In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Wiegand predicts a “severe bull market” for gold that will include both juniors and seniors. He advises selective buying and names several of his favorites.The Gold Report: When we spoke in mid-July, at the height of the market, you predicted a major downward correction.
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Gold Crisis and Inflation Hedge Expected to Outperform Crude Oil / Commodities / Gold & Silver
1. IntroductionOver the last 7-8 years, gold has consistently underperformed oil. Gold bulls are worried – after all, why invest in gold, when oil delivers a better performance, and so are apparently copper, uranium, and a number of agricultural commodities. The answer is simple – during the early stage of this commodity bull market (2000-2006), the fundamentals of oil were much better than gold. However, the relative fundamentals will reverse in later stages, when gold will dramatically outperform oil. This is simply the nature of the current commodity bull market.
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Countertrend Rally for GDX Gold Mining ETF / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
My near-term technical pattern and momentum work in the Market Vectors Gold Mining ETF (AMEX: GDX) argues that a meaningful near-term low was established yesterday at 25.30 and that a countertrend recovery rally already is in progress that should propel price to at least 29.80-30.00 and thereafter to 32.00.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Real Price Of Gold Soars / Commodities / Gold & Silver
Gold in "Real" terms is soaring. "Real" in this case means how much an ounce of gold will buy. Let's compare gold to a commodities, to silver and to the stock market, starting with a basket of commodities as measured by $CRB commodities index. Charts are as of 2008-10-06.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Gold Pushes Higher as Silent Bank Run Continues / Commodities / Gold & Silver
GOLD BULLION PRICES rose further in London on Tuesday, touching $888 an ounce and unwinding last week's action entirely as world stock markets rallied from their new record sell-off.Rumors starting late in New York ran from Tokyo to London, claiming that the US Fed and other big central banks are set to slash global interest rates in joint action.
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Credit Crisis Bailouts A Calamity Of Errors / Commodities / Gold & Silver
Between Lehman Brothers and the AIG bailout , Western central banks have already printed somewhere in the neighborhood of half a trillion dollars this week, and it's not over as Washington Mutual, amongst others, are said to be up next. While undoubtedly being a record for such largesse, because these measures are simply monetizing bad debt of insolvent companies, as pointed out previously, the effect on the consumer's liquidity condition is minimal. In fact, when you add up all the stock market losses, amongst other things , the average investor remains worse off, and deteriorating.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 06, 2008
Gold and Silver Price Manipulation / Commodities / Gold & Silver
An Official Market and a Free Market in Gold and Silver. I remember when I lived in Brazil the local currency was like confetti and if you wanted to protect yourself against inflation and currency collapse you had to hold U.S. dollars. Holding dollars, if you could get a hold of it, was very worthwhile as every month that went by you could buy a great deal more of cruzeiros, new cruzeiros, cruzados or reais.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 06, 2008
Gold Leaps on Failed Bailout Economic Deflation Fears / Commodities / Gold & Silver
SPOT GOLD PRICES jumped $34 early in London on Monday, bouncing well above last Friday's low at $820 to touch $860 an ounce as world stock markets sank in the face of desperate promises of Tax-Funded Aid from major governments.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Gold Stock Investors Looking at Huge Losses / Commodities / Gold & Silver
The magnification factor at work, on the down side. Gold drops less than 5% while gold stocks drop more than 15%. It worked on the up side, now we see it working on the down side. Although a long term bear market in gold bullion may be argued it sure is a bear for stocks with the average stock down 52% since their highs only a few months back.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Kerry Smith: Metals & Mining Portfolio Building During Chaotic Times / Commodities / Metals & Mining
A veteran analyst, Kerry Smith of Haywood Securities covers a broad range of companies in the mining sector, from juniors to mid-tiers to majors, from explorers and developers to producers, from base to noble metals. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report , he covers a lot of territory, discussing the outlook for gold, the next stage of sector consolidation and the rough political terrain in some of the world's most resource-abundant geographies.The Gold Report: How should investors play this market, and what's your outlook for commodities, gold in particular?
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Friday, October 03, 2008
Manipulation of Gold and Commodity Prices to Prevent Inflation and Higher Interest Rates / Commodities / Market Manipulation
The Invisible Hand and the Pox Known as Usury - First, from Wikipedia, a little background on usury :
Usury (pronounced /ˈjuːʒəri/ , comes from the Medieval Latin usuria , "interest" or "excessive interest", from the Latin usura "interest") originally meant the charging of interest on loans. After countries legislated to limit the rate of interest on loans, usury came to mean the interest above the lawful rate. In common usage today, the word means the charging of unreasonable or relatively high rates of interest…..
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