Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Friday, February 01, 2013

Gold Stocks Final Bottom Coming / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2013

By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne

In my articles you've heard me talk about accumulating on weakness, buying support, being patient and waiting for better opportunities. Folks, this next week is one of those opportunities. The mining stocks have been a disaster if you've invested in the average fund, GDX or GDXJ. If you've invested in the wrong stocks, they've been a total disaster and you now hate the sector forever. We've certainly been surprised by this protracted struggle. However, the gold shares are set to test a major bottom and could be on the cusp of a major reversal which could begin as soon as next week.

Friday, February 01, 2013

Stock Market Rally Should Boost Discounted Rare Earth and Uranium Miners / Commodities / Metals & Mining

By: Jeb_Handwerger

I notice with interest that the popular media is ignoring the World Trade Organization case against China for restricting exports of critical materials (REMX). This reduction of supply of the critical metals has a significant impact on the global economy.

These critical metals are not only crucial for your iPads and smartphones, but for our top secret, most advanced weaponry. Looking for substitutes for rare earths has proven to be a poor return on investment. For 50 years, they have been trying to find alternatives, only to find out that the chemical characteristics of rare earths are inimitable.

Friday, February 01, 2013

Gold Repatriation - Is Germany Preparing for Future Capital Controls? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Jeff_Clark

The best indicator of a chess player's form is his ability to sense the climax of the game. –Boris Spassky, World Chess Champion, 1969-1972

You've likely heard that the German central bank announced it will begin withdrawing part of its massive gold holdings from the United States as well as all its holdings from France. By 2020, Bundesbank says it wants half its gold reserves stored in its own vault in Germany. p>

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Why Buy Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: DeviantInvestor

• Gold has been real money (medium of exchange and a store of value) for over 3,000 years. It is still real money.
• Gold has no counter-party risk. It is not someone else’s liability. It has intrinsic value that is recognized around the world.
• ALL paper money systems have eventually failed. The intrinsic value of paper money is effectively zero; and all paper money has, throughout history, eventually devalued to zero.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Marc Faber "You Don't Own Gold And You Are In Great Danger" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: GoldCore

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,674.50, EUR 1,234.88, and GBP 1,058.47 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,666.25, EUR 1,230.70, and GBP 1,057.20 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $32.08/oz, €23.76/oz and £20.40/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,677.50/oz, palladium at $736.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Gold and Silver Prices Counterintuitive Behavior To Continue / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: GoldSilverWorlds

Grant Williams writes: The gold and silver price have been trading in a quite counterintuitive way lately. It became very obvious after the US Fed announcement on December 13^th which was a fundamentally bullish event for precious metals. Gold was trading above $1,700 an ounce but has been trading lower since then. The gold price tried only once to break above $1,700 but did not succeed. Which leaves a lot of believers and investors with the question how that is possible and if more of the same can be expected in the foreseeable future.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Gold Bugs Response to Money Printing / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Adrian_Ash

What gold investors think of money printing, inflation, and the vulgar crooks behind them...

Back in the final, dying days of 2012, Paul Tustain here at BullionVault offered a little fable to explain why money exists, how it is created by banks today, and why things could get very ugly tomorrow.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Gold and Quantitative Easing: Inflation All Over Again? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: P_Radomski_CFA

Perhaps you have heard that the Fed is printing money to get out of the crisis and that such actions cannot possibly end other than in even more money being printed and in the dollar losing its ability to buy you tangible assets. In our essay on gold and the dollar collapse we pointed out that since 1970 the debt numbers have gone up more than 40-fold (!). In 2002, future Fed chairman Ben Bernanke noted that "the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost." In keeping with these words, Bernanke has played an important role in the introduction of three rounds of what is known today as quantitative easing (QE) - programs expanding the money supply beyond the usual. The bill for QEs is $2.25 trillion and counting. As of January 17, 2013, U.S. debt totaled $16.4 trillion. These extraordinary numbers call for a deeper analysis and today we focus on what QE actually is.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Gold & Silver Jump on Weak US Data / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Adrian_Ash

GOLD and silver jumped to 4-session highs above $1674 and $31.65 per ounce respectively Wednesday lunchtime in London, gaining as new data showed the US economy unexpectedly shrinking in late 2012.

US stock-market indices held flat near 5-year highs, while the EuroStoxx 50 was unchanged near 18-month highs despite news that Spain's GDP shrank by 0.7% in the last 3 months of 2012.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Swiss Banks Offer Allocated Gold and Silver Accounts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: GoldCore

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,666.25, EUR 1,230.70, and GBP 1,057.20 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,660.50, EUR 1,235.12, and GBP 1,057.17 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $31.36/oz, €23.25/oz and £19.25/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,690.00/oz, palladium at $754.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Why the Fed Needs Golden Handcuffs / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Jan_Skoyles

Jan Skoyles looks at how 100 years of the Federal Reserve system has affected asset prices, from the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the gold price. Read on to find out what happened in the last century to cause prices to rocket and what the Federal Reserve had to do with it.

This year the US Federal Reserve System will celebrate its 100-year existence thanks to the signing of the Federal Reserve Act in December 1913.

The Federal Reserve System was set up in response to a series of financial crises and ‘panics’, in the hope that it would redress the financial system’s shortcomings.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Why Doomsayers Are Wrong About Crude Oil Prices, Up 11% Since December / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Money_Morning

Dr. Kent Moors writes: The stock market is not the only thing that is up. Crude oil prices have jumped as well rising faster than the S&P for the past month.

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) next month futures contract prices for crude oil on the NYMEX increased again last week. That marked the seventh consecutive week oil prices have gained, the first time that has happened since 2009. Overall, WTI pricing level has risen 11% since mid-December.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

What the Narrowing WTI/Brent Crude Oil Price Gap Means for Investors / Commodities / Oil Companies

By: The_Energy_Report

Increasing pipeline capacity in the U.S. is expected to help close the troubling price differential between West Texas Intermediate and Brent prices. In this interview with The Energy Report, newsletter editor and international stock market strategist Elliott Gue discusses how this trend and other developments are affecting investment prospects, sharing some favorite names with upside potential.

The Energy Report: U.S. oil prices hit their third peak of 2012 soon after your last interview with us, then bottomed around $85 per barrel ($85/bbl) in early November. Now they're back in the mid-$90s. What's causing the recent strength?

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Blatant Price Manipulation Takes Place Every Day in Crude Oil Markets / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: EconMatters

License to steal

Every single day the oil market is manipulated, it is easy to see, right out in the open, and nobody does anything about it. It literally is like having a license to rob banks right in front of everybody, including the armed security guards.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

German Gold Repatriation Is Victory For Transparency And GATA / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: GoldCore

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,660.50, EUR 1,235.12, and GBP 1,057.17 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,656.75, EUR 1,232.43, and GBP 1,052.77 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $31.09/oz, €23.23/oz and £19.84/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,675.50/oz, palladium at $737.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Gold Bearish in Short Term Outlook as Fed Meeting Looms / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Ben_Traynor

WHOLESALE Gold Bullion prices climbed back above $1660 an ounce Tuesday morning, broadly in line with where they ended last week, as stocks and commodities fell slightly and the Dollar ticked higher against the Euro ahead of tomorrow's interest rate decision from the US Federal Reserve.

"We are seeing a technical rebound following a few days of price decline," one trader in Shanghai told newswire Reuters this morning.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The Real Reason Germany Wants its Gold Back / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Money_Morning

Peter Krauth writes: After spending more than 50 years in foreign hands, Germany's gold is finally going home.

In a recent watershed decision the Bundesbank, Germany's central bank, has decided at least half of its gold should be held in its own vaults.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Commodity Resource Stock Investors Can Expect Sunnier Days Ahead / Commodities / Resources Investing

By: Frank_Holmes

During the current commodity supercycle, there have been occasions--too many to count--when investor psyche has been damaged by reports about slowing U.S. growth, a hard landing in China or a debt crisis in Europe. Yet just behind the gloom, significant and positive trends are taking hold, causing the storms to start dissipating.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Betting on Mediterranean Oil and Gas Shale / Commodities / Shale Oil and Gas

By: OilPrice_Com

The Mediterranean has joined the shale game, but as most of Europe's Mediterranean countries drag their feet, all eyes are on Israel, Turkey, and Algeria.

For Israel, it will be a slow road without the majors.

For Algeria, it's full speed ahead, in theory--but the foreign interest is just dabbling for now due to a lack of shale infrastructure.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

How to Pick the Best Gold Bullion Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: InvestmentContrarian

Sasha Cekerevac writes: Many investors in gold bullion have become increasingly worried due to the lack of price appreciation lately. Even though there has been an aggressive monetary policy initiative by the Federal Reserve, gold bullion and mining stocks in the sector have declined.

Obviously, no one can predict the future; it’s impossible to know for sure where gold bullion, or mining stocks in general, will be in the future.