Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, May 25, 2015
China Sets Up Gold Bullion Fund For Central Banks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: GoldCore
- China’s new gold fund – 60 countries to develop gold mining projects
- Allow member central banks to have easier access to gold
- Gold to be traded on increasingly important Shanghai Gold Exchange
- Another important step in making yuan reserve currency
- China and Russia challenging U.S. dominance in key Eurasia
- New gold fund shows monetary importance placed on gold by China
- China ensuring supply in event gold flows from West to East end
- Gold’s reemergence as important monetary asset both for individuals and powerful nations
Monday, May 25, 2015
Is The Silver Trade Getting Crowded? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Dan_Norcini
That is the question I am asking myself today after having some time to analyze its Commitments of Traders report.
Here is the Daily Silver chart:
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Sunday, May 24, 2015
Gold : Truth is Stranger than Fiction / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Rambus_Chartology
Below is a combo chart that has gold on top and silver on the bottom. This chart goes back to the bull market top for both gold and silver and the bear market that ensued. Silver topped out in April of 2013 with gold topping out in September of the same year. Their first bear market consolidation patterns were rectangles and both broke down at the same time. From that initial low in June of 2013 they both started to form consolidation patterns and that’s where they parted ways. Silver built out a 15 month 6 point triangle consolidation pattern before it broke down. The bottom rail of the 6 point triangle consolidation pattern has held resistance for nine months or so. The first thing that would get me excited about silver would be if it could take out the apex of the blue triangle above 18.65. Below the apex bearish and above bullish.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
What You Know for Certain - Huge Demand for Gold And Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Michael_Noonan
If there is any certainty in the world, [and there is very little], it is that the demand for gold and silver is at its highest and has been running at a fevered pitch for several years. From John Keats "Ode On A Grecian Urn," "...that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Anything else stems from subjective conclusions drawn from lying politicians, no matter the source or government. They all lie under the aegis of political diplomacy. For Obama and his entire administration there is very little diplomacy, so mostly just lies.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Gold Miners Fail at 200-day Moving Average / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2015
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
Last week we wrote that the precious metals complex had not broken out yet and had more work to do before it could attempt a true breakout. The metals had some more upside and so did the shares. However, the poor performance of the shares this past week could warn of a larger reversal.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Gold Price Primary Driver Bullish / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Zeal_LLC
Gold has been fairly volatile so far this year, seeing plenty of big daily surges and selloffs. But with all these largely netting out to the sideways grind of recent months, gold’s price action has been frustrating for bullish and bearish traders alike. Gaming gold in these strange central-bank-distorted times requires closely watching its primary driver, the collective bets of American futures speculators. They portend a rally.
Just last week, the venerable World Gold Council published its latest comprehensive analysis of global gold supply and demand. The intersection of these core fundamentals ultimately determines prevailing gold price levels. And since bringing new gold mines online takes well over a decade, supply levels only change very gradually. So gold prices are mostly determined by the shifting tides on the demand side.
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Friday, May 22, 2015
BitGold - Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Peter_Schiff
To hear BitGold founders Joshua Crumb or Roy Sebag talk about their new company, one would think they came up with the idea of individuals transacting in gold or using a debit card to access their gold holdings on their own. While I agree it’s a good idea, it’s certainly not original.
I first began writing about this concept in my 2007 book, “Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse”. I put it into effect with the establishment of my offshore bank, Euro Pacific Bank. In fact, BitGold is simply hoping to expand on my existing platform, which expanded on concepts first pioneered by e-gold and GoldMoney (which BitGold just purchased using its vastly overpriced stock).
Friday, May 22, 2015
Gold and Silver Rally Consolidates / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Alasdair_Macleod
Gold and silver rallied strongly last Friday and into Monday's overnight trading (UK time) before spending the rest of the week drifting lower from initial highs to consolidate above notional support at $1200 and $17 respectively. As of first thing this morning, UK time in US dollars gold is now up 2.2% and silver 10.2% on the year.
Friday, May 22, 2015
Gold Lifeboat to Global Economies “Titanic Problem” Warn HSBC / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: GoldCore
-“The world economy is like an ocean liner without lifeboats …” – HSBC
- Four areas of high risk identified by HSBC
- Risk of stock market crash
- Pension funds and insurers may not meet obligations
- Chinese recession may drag U.S. into recession or depression
- Premature rate rise would expose very fragile global economy
- “There aren’t enough lifeboats to go round”
- Gold vital lifeboat when global ship strikes iceberg
Thursday, May 21, 2015
New World Currency Backed By Gold or Silver? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Chris_Vermeulen
History has proven that 100% of fiat currencies have failed the test of time. The average life span of a fiat currency is 40-50 years. With the US dollar now in it’s 44th year it makes you wonder if the end of the greenback is near.
The only money that has held the test of time has been asset-backed currencies using gold. Or through owning gold and silver bullion.
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
Gold “Less Sexy” Than Bitcoin … For Now - GoldCore on CNBC / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: GoldCore
- “There is a global financial bubble”
– Stock markets and bond markets at all time record highs
– Medium to long term, gold’s “fundamentals look very sound”
Thursday, May 21, 2015
This Innovation Will Help U.S. Companies Win The Oil Price War / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: OilPrice_Com
Although some US oil companies are struggling with low oil prices, a new wave of innovation is hitting the oil patch, allowing for a significant reduction in drilling costs.A variety of different improvements in production are starting to show up at all levels across the industry from small firms to oil majors. Statoil for example recently noted that it is experimenting with different types of sand and chemicals to improve production. And a number of companies have noted that they are moving from drilling wells one at a time, on an ad hoc basis, to drilling multiple wells at once. GE Oil & Gas has produced variable-use pumps that can be turned on and off in order to save energy versus the previous 24-hour a day operation cycle.
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
The US Dollar and the Precious Metals Complex / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Rambus_Chartology
The first chart I would like to show you today is the long term monthly chart for the US Dollar I showed you a week or two ago. It was coming into contact with the top rail of a massive 30 year falling wedge at 93.50. I also drew in a neckline extension rail taken from the H&S top that formed back in 2000 which came in at 92. I put the little brown box to show you where I was hoping to find support. So far the top rail is doing its thing by reversing its role to what had been resistance to now support once it was broken to the upside. This is a critical test taking place right here which so far the US dollar bulls are winning.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Gold GLD ETF Drawdown Continues Unabated / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Dan_Norcini
The giant gold ETF, GLD, reported yet another drawdown in its holdings this afternoon. This time around it was a 3 tons reduction bringing the total holdings to 715.26 tons. That is now up a mere 6.24 tons since the start of the year levels, a far cry from its peak in February of a 64 ton increase on the year.
There is no way to spin this to make it the least bit friendly for the cause of gold.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
It’s Time to Hold More Cash and Buy Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: GoldCore
- Bank of America advises owning gold
- Markets in “Twilight Zone” transition period
- Fed policy normalisation poses risks
- Own gold and cash to protect against “cleansing drop in asset prices”
- Data show markets disconnected from reality
- Fragile system vulnerable to shock
- Gold is hedge against systemic risks
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Are US Shale Oil Drillers Actually Making A Comeback? / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: OilPrice_Com
Oil prices have rebounded strongly since March. The benchmark WTI prices soared by more than 36 percent in two months, and Brent has jumped by more than 25 percent. There is a newfound bullishness in the oil markets – net long positions on Brent crude have hit multi-year highs in recent weeks on a belief that US supply is on its way down.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Three Hidden Forces Pushing Crude Oil Price Back Up / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: ...
MoneyMorning.com Dr. Kent Moors writes: The overall trajectory for oil prices remains upward, despite taking a breather today. I still see prices reaching $65-68 for West Texas Intermediate (WTI, the benchmark traded on the NYMEX) and $73-78 for Dated Brent (the other major benchmark set daily in London).
But this is hardly going to be a straight, linear rise. Rather, it’s going to occur in what I call a “ratcheting” pattern: occasionally jerking downward along the way.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Now Is the Time to Own the Oil & Gas Leaders / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: The_Energy_Report
U.S. shale oil producers have responded to the oil price collapse so quickly, and with such discipline, that they've shown they are able to turn production on and off as if with a light switch. As Keith Schaefer tells The Energy Report, that means it's time to be nimble, and to keep small positions until oil finds a stable new price level.
The Energy Report: Keith, the first U.S. grassroots refinery in nearly 40 years just began operation in North Dakota. Is the growth in U.S. oil production going to catalyze refinery construction?
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
History Shows A Gold Bull Market Is Fast Approaching / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Jeff_Clark
Yearning for sunnier skies for your gold investments? How’s this sound…
- Gold in a decisive bull market, with the price steadily rising
- Silver soaring and outpacing gold’s gains
- Gold stocks rocking, erasing underwater positions and racking up the profits
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Trading Gold and Silver along with the Pros / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Peter_Degraaf
For a number of years the market presence of commercial traders has dictated the
direction in the price of gold and silver. With deep pockets and by trading contracts
in the futures market without having to back up their contracts with metal,
commercial traders acting in concert, can raise the price after a pullback, and cap a
rally when their computer trading programs signal that price is ripe for a quick
drop.