Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, December 21, 2012
Why QE3 is so Bullish for Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Zeal_LLC
Silver has been selling off relentlessly since the Federal Reserve expanded its third quantitative-easing campaign last week. As that decision was highly inflationary, silver’s subsequent weakness has really vexed traders. But its counter-intuitive selloff had nothing to do with fundamentals. As the Fed’s past QE campaigns demonstrated abundantly, QE3 will eventually prove to be very bullish for silver’s fortunes.
Friday, December 21, 2012
Silver Prices and the Return of the Yen Carry Trade / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
In the futures pits, silver traders are seeing prices move downward as a result of the expression of market structure.
Nevertheless, that market structure and its macro economic back drop is now changing, as the currency wars heat up once again as the world moves into a new year.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
HFT and Gold and Silver Price Management Getting Easier Every Day / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
Regulation within a market tends to make it harder for legitimate traders to operate because every 'edge' they identify essentially becomes insider information. Nevertheless, the powerful electronic traders are still allowed legal access to front run pricing and large orders on the exchanges by being permitted to locate their servers onsite.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Gold from the Non U.S. Dollar Perspective / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: P_Radomski_CFA
This was a week of declines for precious metals, very strong ones, indeed. It seems that the main culprit was not the U.S. dollar, that should have actually helped the whole sector, as it declined heavily too, but the fears concerning the “fiscal cliff”, that we discussed some time ago, and the lack of any solutions from the government so far. We believe that as soon as the problem is solved, the whole sector will rally strongly. That is even more likely, as gold and silver are currently extremely oversold, as we’ll see in the technical part of this essay. To see the true magnitude of the plunge, and try to guess where we can go from this point, we’ll have a look at the yellow metal from the perspective of different currencies. But first things first – we’ll start with the usual long-term chart of gold priced in USD (charts courtesy by http://stockcharts.com.)
Friday, December 21, 2012
Desperately Seeking A Gold Cycle Low / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldSilverWorlds
A Dollar in decline, a 3 Year Cycle Top, and a “Dollar pummeling into the New Year” all sound wonderful for Gold. Ordinarily of course gold would be rocketing from here as the dollar collapses. For gold to drop this far while the dollar collapses is only masking the true severity of the precious metal decline.
As for the gold Cycle, we officially have to contend with remarking our Cycles to better understand what the market is doing. Remember that Cycles are the true interpretation of what the asset has done, there is no ambiguity, a Cycle by its very definition can never be wrong. The fault lies with the Cyclists, the analyst who attempt to predict the movement of the asset by predicting the type of Cycle we’re going to experience based on pasted evidence.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Gold and Silver Head for 4th Straight Weekly Drop But / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
WHOLESALE gold bullion prices hovered around $1650 an ounce Friday morning in London, having earlier hit fresh four-month lows, while stocks edged lower and US Treasuries gained despite little evident progress in Washington to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
Silver traded either side of $30 an ounce meantime, having yesterday dipped below that level for the first time since August, while oil prices dipped slightly and copper ticked higher.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Iraq Quadruples Gold Reserves In Two Months - First Time In Years / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,648.25, EUR 1,246.97 and GBP 1,014.56 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,667.00, EUR 1,259.25 and GBP 1,024.96 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $29.89/oz, €22.73/oz and £18.49/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,551.25/oz, palladium at $673.00/oz and rhodium at $1,040/oz.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Profiting from Your Thirst as Global Elite Rush to Control Water Worldwide / Commodities / Water Sector
By: Submissions
Jo-Shing Yang writes: The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks and the Tycoons Are Buying up Water at Unprecedented PaceA disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” --- the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires --- are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace. Familiar mega-banks and investing powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Bank, Barclays Bank, the Blackstone Group, Allianz, and HSBC Bank, among others, are consolidating their control over water. Wealthy tycoons such as T. Boone Pickens, former President George H.W. Bush and his family, Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing, Philippines’ Manuel V. Pangilinan and other Filipino billionaires, and others are also buying thousands of acres of land with aquifers, lakes, water rights, water utilities, and shares in water engineering and technology companies all over the world. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, December 21, 2012
Gold and Silver Decouple from Stock Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
At the end of July we wrote an article examining the relationship between gold stocks and general equities. We sought to understand the huge variance in performance between the two markets. Sometimes they trended higher together. Sometimes the gold stocks surged while conventional equities fell into a bear market. Both markets have endured bad bears at the same time. Is there any rhyme or reason to why such variation?
Friday, December 21, 2012
Energy Sector Shocking 2013 Predictions / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: The_Energy_Report
Byron King, editor of the Outstanding Investments and Energy & Scarcity Investor newsletters, is expecting surprises in the energy sector in 2013. In this interview with The Energy Report, King discusses his forecasts for fracking's impact on oil and gas prices, a worldwide uranium shortage and a possible change in the economics of alternative energy sources.
The Energy Report: Let's start with a recent takeover deal that's been getting a lot of criticism in recent weeks. Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX:NYSE) made a $9 billion takeover offer for the oil and gas explorer McMoRan Exploration Co. (MMR:NYSE) and Houston-based Plains Exploration & Production (PXP:NYSE). Are you happy with this deal?
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Silver Price Forecast To Gain 29% in 2013 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,667.00, EUR 1,259.25 and GBP 1,024.96 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,674.50, EUR 1,261.49 and GBP 1,027.87 per ounce.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Oil and Gasoline Markets Rigged Far Worse Than LIBOR / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: EconMatters
UBS paid $1.5 Billion for manipulating Libor, and Barclay`s already paid the piper for manipulating the Libor rate. Well, it is about time the CFTC get its act together, and start going after the culprits who rig the oil and gasoline markets costing consumers and businesses a mafia tax by paying prices much higher than the markets should be priced based upon supply and demand fundamentals in the consumption marketplace.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
How to Up Your Investing IQ with Gold Stocks 2013 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: The_Gold_Report
Have you ever actually held gold in your hands? Byron King, editor of the Outstanding Investments and Energy & Scarcity Investor newsletters, suggests that you do. But becoming a smart investor shouldn't just be about physical gold, King says. He also encourages investors to use investments in gold mining juniors to increase their exposure to precious metals. Read on in this Gold Report interview to find out the handful of companies he's expecting to shake up the market in 2013.
The Gold Report: Byron, many gold investors spent the early part of December exiting their long positions in gold. Is 2013 the year the gold bull market ends?
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Why Gold Price MUST Go Higher 2013 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Adrian_Ash
Ooops! Just when everyone said gold must go higher – immediately...!
MARKETS are made of opinions, some better than others.
There are always plenty of opinions about gold. And right now they're clearly making the market. Just not in the way you would think.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The Relationship between Gold and Crude Oil Price / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: P_Radomski_CFA
In the financial markets, gold is usually ascribed to the commodities category. In this group of assets you will find your good old friend, silver, along with several others metals like platinum, palladium, copper etc. Apart from that, commodities encompass a broad range of other products in the like of corn, but also crude oil, gas, minerals and other. Such groups of assets are usually traded on commodity exchanges specialized in this kind of products, for instance on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange or the London Metal Exchange.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Jim Roger Sees "Overdue Correction" Hitting Gold as Unleveraged Money Buys 3-Month Lows / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Adrian_Ash
PRICES to buy gold with Dollars rallied from their lowest levels since late August on Wednesday morning in London, recovering 0.7% from yesterday's drop to $1662 per ounce.
The drop came as Greece was upgraded Tuesday by the S&P ratings agency from "selective default" to "junk" status, following payment of the latest €34.3 billion in new loans from Greece's Eurozone partners.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Gold CME/COMEX December Delivery Default Pointing to Widespread Default? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Submissions
The CME announced today a case of "force majeure" regarding one of its physical gold storage facilities, Mantra, Tordella & Brookes (MTB), managed for the COMEX, located in the southern part of New York City, in an area that was inundated during the storm known as Sandy.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The Next Big Boom in Energy Isn't What You Think / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes:
As the ongoing debate between renewables and fossil fuels continues, there is a wrong-headed presumption that there will only be one clear victor.
But recent trends in the wind and solar age tell us that this conclusion just isn't so.
The truth is both types of energy will be required to work in tandem in order to achieve our energy goals in the future.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Gold, Stocks Sell Signal / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Brian_Bloom
The sell signal is not yet definitively bearish because even at $1560, gold will be “trading” within the confines of a well established range. Nevertheless, the target measured move of $1109 on the 3% X 3 box reversal P&F chart looks less ridiculous than it did a few weeks ago.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Commodity Stocks Risk On Rally: Rare Earth And Uranium Miners Outperforming / Commodities / Resources Investing
By: Jeb_Handwerger
For months, we have been highlighting to our readers that China’s economy is beginning to pick up which could positively influence commodity prices. The fears of a slowdown were overblown.
China’s stock markets (FXI) have been rallying since early September because speculation is rising that the newly chosen Communist Party may boost the economy. The China 25 index fund (FXI) is approaching a major 52 week high breakout.