Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Dow Down 50% Against Gold Since Last Record Dow in October 2007 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: GoldCore

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,574.00, EUR 1,207.98 and GBP 1,043.42 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,584.25, EUR 1,214.82 and GBP 1,044.33 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $28.68/oz, €22.10/oz and £19.09/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,596.70/oz, palladium at $736.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Yes, Gold Prices ARE Being Manipulated, Here's What To Do About It / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Money_Morning

Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: If you've ever suspected gold prices are being manipulated, you're not alone--and you're right, they are.

Against the backdrop of fiscal mismanagement, political incompetence, and failed austerity measures, the world's biggest traders have all bet heavily on gold. Lately, they've been pulling out all the stops to get what they want while laughing all the way to bigger bonuses.

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) Sees Longest Ever Run of Gold Outflows / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Ben_Traynor

U.S. DOLLAR gold prices climbed to $1584 an ounce Tuesday morning, 1.2% above last week's low, as stocks and commodities also edged higher and the Dollar weakened slightly after another Federal Reserve policymaker spoke in favor of ongoing quantitative easing.

Silver hovered just below $29 an ounce this morning, 3.5% up on last week's low, while major government bond prices fell.

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Record Silver Eagle Sales - SocGen Say Silver “Cheaper Alternative To Gold” / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: GoldCore

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,584.25, EUR 1,214.82 and GBP 1,044.33 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,578.00, EUR 1,214.13 and GBP 1,049.06 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $28.93/oz, €22.30/oz and £19.16/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,588.50/oz, palladium at $722.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Gold and Interest Rates Direction of Travel / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Adrian_Ash

Yes, the real rate of interest matters to gold. But not as much as its direction...

Wall Street and the City are coming to decide that gold is a sell. Because interest rates, they reason, are set to rise sooner than they used to imagine.

This professional money is only half-wrong. Central banks aren't about to hike the returns on cash savings, which have been a wasting asset pretty much non-stop since 2007.

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Junior Gold Stocks Best Buying Opportunity in Four Years...Possibly Ever / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2013

By: Jeff_Berwick

There is an old saying: to “pound the table”. It essentially means to vehemently assert one's position. I rarely pound the table. I am, as of today, pounding the table!

I am talking about the junior gold stocks. Gold stocks in general, but especially the juniors.

To preface, those of you invested in these securities in 2008 remember the worst crash of all time: the crash of the junior gold stocks from a high on the TSX-Venture exchange (where most are traded) of over 3,000 to under 700 in less than a year.

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Central Bankers Are Gaming Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: The_Gold_Report

Some people may look at the stock market and see economic recovery. Eric Sprott of Sprott Asset Management and Sprott Money looks at myriad other economic indicators and sees an economy still in decline. Despite his suspicions that central banks are keeping gold prices artificially low, he tells The Gold Report that he favors gold, platinum, palladium and especially silver, over the near and long term.

The Gold Report: The price of gold has dipped under $1,600/ounce ($1,600/oz); silver is below $30/oz. Is this a case of living by the sword and dying by the sword, where precious metals prices only go up in a bad economy and are doomed to languish when things go well?

Monday, March 04, 2013

Silver Prices Defy the “Law of Supply and Demand” / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: DeviantInvestor

Mike McGill writes: Let’s begin with a definition. Investopedia.com defines the Law of Supply and Demand as follows:

The effect that the availability of a particular product and the desire (or demand) for that product has on price. Generally, if there is a low supply and a high demand, the price will be high. In contrast, the greater the supply and the lower the demand, the lower the price will be.

Monday, March 04, 2013

China’s $3.3 Trillion FX Reserves Could Buy All World’s Gold Twice / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: GoldCore

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,578.00, EUR 1,214.13 and GBP 1,049.06 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,570.00, EUR 1,203.99 and GBP 1,043.74 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $28.75/oz, €22.11/oz and £19.20/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,584.25/oz, palladium at $719.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.

Monday, March 04, 2013

Gold Upside "Limited" Despite Comex Repositioning / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Ben_Traynor

THE SPOT gold price dropped to $1575 per ounce Monday morning in London, broadly in line with where it ended last week, while stocks ticked lower and the Euro held steady near two-month lows against the Dollar ahead of this Thursday's European Central Bank policy meeting.

"For gold, the trending and momentum indicators are pointing lower," says a note from UBS, "indicating any upside in the near-term must be limited."

Monday, March 04, 2013

Reasons to Sell Gold and Silver Now / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Shelby_H_Moore

Sell or hedge a portion of your physical. Sell all mining stock asap.

Gold may dive below $1200 and silver below $21 ($1400 is very likely), due
to fact that USA $1.2 trillion fiscal cuts are going to occur. Obama wants
to use this to make the public hate the Republicans, so he can get a
majority in Congress at the mid-term elections, so then he can run the
country like a dictatorship his last 2 years.

Monday, March 04, 2013

A detailed look at Bank of England Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Alasdair_Macleod

The London Bullion Market is the global trading centre for physical gold, and the Bank of England holds gold on behalf of other central banks. There are a number of historical reasons the Bank has this privileged role, but the most important are that the Bank is trusted, and it oversees the largest bullion market by far. Therefore a significant portion of the world’s monetary gold should be stored at the Bank of England.

Sunday, March 03, 2013

Gold Set for Next Major Uptrend to Break to New All Time Highs / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Clive_Maund

COTs, sentiment and public opinion and a raft of technical indicators are all at low extremes that continue to indicate that gold is marking out a major low here and set to reverse to the upside before long. So you can safely ignore all the fair weather pundits who are coming out of the woodwork to proclaim gold's bullmarket dead, and also the plethora of bearish articles appearing in the mainstream media at Big Money's behest in order to squeeze the last drop of blood out of the little guy before the next big rally starts.

Sunday, March 03, 2013

Silver Believed to Have Bottomed Ahead of Major Uptrend / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Clive_Maund

The big story with silver is that the Commercials are continuing to unwind their earlier massive short position at a very rapid rate, and of course booking massive profits in the process. We had pointed out in the last update that until their short positions eased further, silver was likely to back and fill and that's what happened last week, as after a 4-day rally into Tuesday, silver dropped back for the rest of the week to make a new intraday low on Friday.

Sunday, March 03, 2013

Why Gazprom Will Bite The Bullet - Soon / Commodities / Natural Gas

By: Andrew_McKillop

WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS
One of the most classic-possible rent situations exists in Europe, with its overpriced energy markets. Sometimes the rent is only created inside the bloc, and consumed there by its owners - the corporate, bankster State price fixing fraternity. But in other cases like oil and especially gas, the rent is shared with foreign partners of the elite crowd: for gas price gouging, this is now unsustainable.

Saturday, March 02, 2013

HUI Gold Bull Market Elephant in the Room! / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2013

By: Rambus_Chartology

The Elephant in the room that nobody see’s. The monthly charts shows the price actions closing for the month of February below the neckline.

Saturday, March 02, 2013

Silver Prices and the Mortgage Market — A Tale of Two Interventions / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis

A comparison of two types of intervention has become interesting with respect to silver.  First of all, Central Planning support of the mortgage and housing markets has already reached the supernova stage.

There seems nowhere left to go, as real interest rates are already negative.  Furthermore, over 90 percent of the mortgage market is now backed by Federal agencies.

Saturday, March 02, 2013

Hope is Fear Gone Bad for Paper Silver Shorts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis

The price pattern in silver and gold remains intact. It shows that each time these precious metals are pushed below a key technical moving average, new buyers come into the market.

Most are weak hands, speculators or amateur traders who have fallen in love with the idea of a futures contract, although the original longs have still refused to trade their valuable metal for intrinsically worthless paper dollars.

Friday, March 01, 2013

The Importance of Silver Price Breakdown / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: P_Radomski_CFA

Investors sentiment for precious metals and gold and silver mining stocks has deteriorated quite substantially recently. And silver is no exception here, which can be seen on the white metal charts. However, the situation in the whole sector is extreme – the oversold readings on many technical indicators and the fact that very important support lines are currently in play in virtually any asset in the sector form a setup as (or even more) encouraging for potential buyers as what we saw in 2008. To see what we can expect on the silver market, let us move into today’s technical part – we will start with the white metal’s very long-term chart (charts courtesy by http://stockcharts.com.)

Friday, March 01, 2013

Gold Bullion and Miners' Race to the Bottom / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Ashraf_Laidi

Since equities had reached bottom in June 2012, major indices have rallied 21% to today, compared to -1% for gold bullion and -20% for the Gold Bugs index - An index of the 16 most popular gold mining companies.

The Gold Bugs index has fallen 31% from its September high, while the yellow metal dropped 13% from its October high. A similar 2.5-1 disparity in GoldBugs-Bullion Sell-off was seen during the 2008 crisis, when bullion fell 33% from its 2008 peak to its 2008 trough, while Gold Bugs fell 71% during the same period.