Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, May 04, 2015
Let's Make Silver Shine Even Brighter Than Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Money_Morning
Tom Gentile writes: In the world of precious metals, silver is considered the "Poor Man's Gold."
Anyone who believes this nonsense will stay away from investing in silver for all the wrong reasons.
With the S&P 500 pushing resistance once again at 2,100, perhaps it's time to visit the land of the contrarian trader, for as the saying goes, as the stock market falls, the precious metals markets rise.
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Monday, May 04, 2015
Six Silver Questions and Perspectives / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The next time you find yourself contemplating, worrying, or wondering with anxiety whether it’s too simple to be true; it is not simple - it’s exceedingly complicated.
Not because the fundamentals are all that hard to understand. And not because in principle it is sound personal action in any time period.
But it is complicated because we’ve spent so many years off the rails of sound economic principles that we don’t recognize them when we see them.
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Monday, May 04, 2015
Gold Trading Week Ahead - 4 May 2015 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Harley_Salt
Gold ended last week on a flat note having fallen below US$1,180/oz with better than expected jobless data out of the US pushing gold lower. It was a surprise to the markets to finally see positive data from the US, of late the majority of key data has been coming in below expectations. With one positive bit of data the market seemed to grab this and give hope to a near term rate rise which kept gold demand weak. We still do not believe the Fed will move on rates this year given the overall weakness in the US economy and the continuing flow of poor economic data.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, May 04, 2015
The Energy Complex: Very Interesting Chartology / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Rambus_Chartology
Lets start by looking at the daily chart for WTIC I posted earlier this week that showed a potential inverse H&S bottom with a double bottom head. The brown shaded areas shows the left and right shoulders. WTIC has closed two days in a row above the neckline. So far so good.
Saturday, May 02, 2015
Gold And Silver - Thieving Bankers Operate In Open; Public Have Eyes Wide Shut / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Michael_Noonan
Who are the bankers? There are those known, doing a lot of dirty work, and there are those unknown, operating totally behind the scenes controlling everything, doing even dirtier work. What does that mean, controlling everything? How about the world's money supply, creating it, deciding who gets what and how it is to be spent.
How has a lot of the money been spent? Acquiring politicians, which means controlling governments and the political partied that make up governments. Bankers have paid for and gained control of the entire pharmaceutical industry, the AMA [American Medical Association], all of the huge Agri-business, controlling the like of Monsanto and GMOs. Bankers control the entire media industry, everything you watch on TV, hear on the radio, read in the newspapers and magazines, control over everything they want you to hear and read. The entire educational system is run by the government. Everything is done under the watchful eyes of the bankers. Nothing gets done without their approval.
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Saturday, May 02, 2015
Is Solar Power About To Crush Big Oil And Big Coal AND End Global Warming? / Commodities / Solar Energy
By: John_Rubino
Something amazing has happened in the energy market. The cost of solar power has fallen to the point where, in a growing number of places, it’s cheaper than the electricity that utilities deliver from their coal-fired power plants. And its price is still falling.
Saturday, May 02, 2015
Crude Oil Price Bear Market Is Over / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Austin_Galt
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Forget about testing the 2009 lows. It ain't gonna happen. Not as far as I'm concerned anyway. The final low appears to be in place and while I think the downtrend is over I suspect the volatility is not.
Let's check out the technicals beginning with the small picture and then finishing with the big picture outlook.
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Saturday, May 02, 2015
More Evidence Gold Stocks Have Bottomed Relative to Gold Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2015
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
As we penn this article Gold is trading below $1180/oz and set to close at its lowest level in six weeks. Gold is less than 2% from its weekly low of $1158. It is fairly close to another technical breakdown. However, the gold mining stocks appear to be bucking the trend and showing increasing relative strength. It appears likely that the stocks have bottomed relative to the metal and maybe so in nominal terms.
Saturday, May 02, 2015
Gold and Silver Bear Squeeze Comes and Goes / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: GoldMoney
This week started with a sharp bear squeeze, which took gold from $1178 to $1214, and silver from $15.70 to $16.71. These higher prices on Wednesday proved to be the peak for both metals, before they fell back sharply yesterday (Thursday) on better than expected US initial jobless claims. The Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) minutes, which admitted the US economy is softening, had little effect when released yesterday.
Friday, May 01, 2015
Gold Developments Say New Mine Supply Is Peaking / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Jeff_Clark
Our curiosity was piqued as we reviewed the year-end reports of the primary gold producers. When we tallied the results, even we were surprised.
The upshot of what you’ll see is that at its current pace, new supply will be unable to keep up with demand. It may look like a story that doesn’t have much immediate impact, but this emerging new reality is staring us right in the face.
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Friday, May 01, 2015
Emerging Mexican Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2015
By: Zeal_LLC
Mexico has long been a silver juggernaut. The indigenous peoples had been successfully mining this shiny-white metal since well before the Spanish colonials swarmed the shores in the 16th century. Several hundred years of Spanish development globalized Mexico’s silver prowess. And still today in the post-independence era silver mining is still going strong.
It is believed that Mexico is responsible for a whopping one-third of all silver ever mined in the history of the world. But despite such an extensive mining history, there’s still plenty remaining in the ground. With the miners of yore literally only scratching the surface via the exploitation of this country’s abundant high-grade outcroppings, there’s ample silver treasures at depth for the modern miners willing to dig deeper.
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Friday, May 01, 2015
JP Morgan Cornering Silver Bullion Market? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: GoldCore
- Why is JP Morgan accumulating the biggest stockpile of physical silver in history?
- Legendary silver analyst Ted Butler believes JP Morgan are in a position to corner silver market
- JP Morgan may be holding as much as 350 million ounces of physical silver
- JP Morgan realises the value of owning physical silver bullion today
- Silver at $16 today – Set to soar to over $50 again
Friday, May 01, 2015
Monetary And Economic Insights From Incrementum’s Advisory Board / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: GoldSilverWorlds
Gold Silver Worlds has received the minutes of the latest Advisory Board meeting by Incrementum Liechtenstein and is pleased to summarize the key insights that were discussed by a panel of experts. Incrementum had launched the “Austrian Economics Golden Opportunities Fund,” a fund that takes investment positions based on the level of inflation based on their proprietary “Incrementum Inflation Signal.” Ronald Stoeferle, author of In Gold We Trust, is the managing partner along with Mark Valek.
Friday, May 01, 2015
How One Chart Is Changing My Outlook on Crude Oil Prices / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Today, something truly unique is underway – and you can see it clearly in the one simple chart I’m about to share.
The advent of huge shale and tight oil reserves in the U.S. has fundamentally altered the terrain of the international energy game.
We still call these reserves “unconventional” to distinguish them from traditional vertically drilled non-fracked wells. But due to the fact that most of the new production is coming from these rock-confined sources, they are certainly becoming mainstream.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Did Commodity Prices FINALLY Just Bottom? / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: Commodity prices are down 60% from their 2008 peak... and they've lost a quarter of their value in the past year alone.
When will the bad times in commodities end?
They could already be over, actually...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Gold and the New U.S. and UK Recession - ZIRP to Continue / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: GoldCore
- U.S. first quarter GDP grew 0.2%, down from 2.2% last quarter
- U.K. GDP for first quarter was 0.3%, last than half the previous quarter’s figure
- Large inventory build up in the U.S. may mask deep recession
- Zero percent interest policies (ZIRP) to continue despite suggestions to contrary
- Global economy vulnerable to recession and depression
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Uranium Price Is About to Rocket / Commodities / Uranium
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: While oil and coal may be struggling, that's not the case all across the energy sector.
Right now, the world's two most populous nations are forging ahead with one specific form of power: uranium.
For many, it's a forgotten or overlooked sector of the energy market, especially in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster. But given the burgeoning demand for, and limited supply of, this crucial component of the energy mix, it's time for a closer look at uranium. And one recent major deal is drawing serious attention… for good reason.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Putin: Czar Of Natural Gas, Crude Oil, Uranium & GOLD / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: I_M_Vronsky
Well-known Moscow journalist Dmitry Kalinichenko expressed it well: “Very few people understand what Putin is doing at the moment. And almost no one understands what he will do in the future. No matter how strange it may seem, but right now, Putin is selling Russian oil and gas only for physical gold.”
Nonetheless, the above comments provide valuable insights into what President Putin’s plan is most likely to be…and how it will eventually and materially benefit the Russian economy.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Have Natural Gas Prices Bottomed? / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: OilPrice_Com
Last Friday we finally got confirmation of where all the natural gas supply has been coming from as Cabot (COG) reported its earnings. Just like Chesapeake (CHK), they reduced natural gas output, but on a much grander scale. CHK has yet to report and will do so on May 6th providing even more color on the subject.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Gold Ideals and Management / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Gary_Tanashian
Given its ancient history as money and jewelry, its religious connotations, the fact that it is both beautiful and laborious to dig out of the ground, process and store, gold is an asset that promotes strong and often emotional views and so it is the perfect central figure for this thought exercise.
I want to be careful in criticizing fellow market participants because as a lowly human myself, I am subject to the same pitfalls as anyone else. But being an advocate of the sound reasons for owning gold, even through a violent bear market, I have learned a lot over the last few years about how many market participants think. That includes myself, which I will address first.
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