Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Gold Breakout, Starts MAJOR Uptrend, Not Too Late to Jump Aboard / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Clive_Maund
It was a big day for the Precious Metals sector on Friday, for the dollar broke down hard from its recent uptrend, and at the same time gold broke out upside from its Head-and-Shoulders base pattern. Silver anticipated this – it broke out from its base pattern back on Tuesday. These developments have grave implications for the dollar, but at the same time are believed to mark the start of major uptrends in gold and silver.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Keep Oil And Gas Prices High - Tax Fracking / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Andrew_McKillop
Incredible as it can seem to many, freshly re-elected Barack Obama is giving serious thought and attention to banning, or limiting - or taxing - oil and gas extraction by hydraulic fracturing. For natural gas, in the US and soon worldwide, "fracking" has had and will have revolutionary effects on gas supply and gas prices.The drilling process has brought U.S. energy independence within reach - with the important rider that for oil, this also needs $100 a barrel prices - but fracking now faces renewed scrutiny from the Obama administration, and an uncertain future in several states.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Climate Change, Nuclear Power and the Red Queen Syndrome / Commodities / Nuclear Power
By: Richard_Mills
All through human evolution we have been harnessing increasingly effective forms of energy. From human power to horse power, to wood, coal, natural gas and uranium we've been working our way up the energy efficiency ladder. In reality what we've been doing is searching for the highest energy density to make energy production more efficient.
"The release of energy from splitting a uranium atom turns out to be 2 million times greater than breaking the carbon-hydrogen bond in coal, oil or wood. Compared to all the forms of energy ever employed by humanity, nuclear power is off the scale. Wind has less than 1/10th the energy density of wood, wood half the density of coal, and coal half the density of octane. Altogether they differ by a factor of about 50. Nuclear has 2 million times the energy density of gasoline." William Tucker, Understanding E=MC2
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Gold Stocks Cyclical Decline? / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: The_Gold_Report
The Gold Report met up with Rick Rule, founder and chairman of Sprott Global Resource Investments Ltd, at the Hard Assets Conference in San Francisco. In this interview with The Gold Report, he shares his belief in the power of gold as both "catastrophe insurance" and an investment vehicle. As to equities, he sees a new discovery cycle lifting the prospects of majors and juniors alike, as long as they act like "rational" businesses.
The Gold Report: Rick, you believe the natural resources sector is experiencing a cyclical decline in a secular bull market similar to the 1970s. Is that true for other sectors as well?
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Gold and Real Interest Rates / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Zeal_LLC
Early in gold’s secular bull, contrarian investors looked to real interest rates as one of this metal’s primary drivers. Eleven years ago when gold still languished under $300, mainstreamers scoffed at the notion that there would ever be sizable gold investment demand. But then, as now, negative real rates create strong incentives for bond investors to deploy significant fractions of their portfolios in this unique asset.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Gold and Silver Blitzsilberkrieg Next Week / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Jesse
As a reminder there are option expiration in gold and silver on the Comex next week on Tuesday the 27th.
My friend Dave says he sees a bulge around 1800 in the gold option positions that could mark the heart of the resistance. This coincides with my own thinking.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
"Exciting Week" Ahead for Gold as Silver as US Prepares $99Bn Bond Sale / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Adrian_Ash
The DOLLAR PRICE of physical gold rose back to $1734 per ounce in London on Friday morning, nearing the top of the last 5 weeks' trading range as so-called "risk assets" also crept higher.
Asian and European stock markets were slightly stronger, while the single Euro currency pushed back above $1.29.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Germany's Gold and Your Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The recent furor over Germany’s request to audit its gold reserves being held by central banks in New York, London and Paris has highlighted the fact that there is even more reason to have one bar in hand versus two bars in the bush in today’s uncertain world.
The controversy arose after the Bundesbank’s official requests for a full audit of German gold reserves were apparently been turned down by the foreign central banks responsible for storing the bulk of German gold.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Silver Demand: Sentiment and Trends / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
A quiet battle is being fought in the silver market between investment interests and industrial demand.
The world is finally waking up to the fact that governments can take the real silver money out of circulation, but they cannot take the money out of silver as a commodity.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Uranium Stocks to Benefit From Nuclear Power Resurgence / Commodities / Uranium
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Nuclear power is poised to make a comeback, and the spike in uranium demand it will bring over the next few years will send uranium stocks soaring.
While the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March 2011 stirred a lot of talk about abandoning nuclear power, nations have since come to realize their energy needs can't be met without nuclear being part of the equation.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Brazil Gold Reserves In Fixed Term Gold Deposits With Bullion Banks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,734.75, EUR 1,345.39, and GBP 1,088.37 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,729.75, EUR 1,344.23, and GBP 1,084.35 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $33.43/oz, €26.02/oz and £21.07/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,583.00/oz, palladium at $654.70/oz and rhodium at $1,040/oz.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Natural Gas Commodity Trading Trade Idea / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: David_Banister
Recently we wrote about Natural Gas ETF UGAZ on the ATP Free Blog site as a sample of buying the dip or using the “cup with handle” dip buying for profits. Our November 11th article discussed waiting for a pullback to the 30-31 ranges on UGAZ and then going long for a reversal.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Austrian Central Bank Has Parked 80% of Countries Gold Reserves In London / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,729.75, EUR 1,344.23, and GBP 1,084.35 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,726.75, EUR 1,350.71, and GBP 1,085.05 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $33.38/oz, €26.00/oz and £21.00/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,588.25/oz, palladium at $650.60/oz and rhodium at $1,060/oz.
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Bundesbank Sold Gold Just for Commemorative Coins / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
THE U.S. DOLLAR gold price traded close to $1730 an ounce during Thursday morning's London session, holding onto gains made a day earlier, as European stock markets edged higher, with US markets closed today for Thanksgiving.
"We believe that the German Bundesbank's sale of 4.2 tonnes of gold was intended solely for producing commemorative coins," says today's commodities note from Commerzbank, referring to International Monetary Fund figures published Wednesday showing October's buying and selling of gold by central banks.
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Prepare For A Possible Gold And Silver Price Spike / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Jeb_Handwerger
The U.S. election results are in. The people have chosen. Subscribers are well aware of the changing rules of the game will conform to the latest economic developments. There may well be a period of negativity relating to the general markets due to the U.S. election, Fiscal Cliff and Year End Tax Loss Selling. We may see both parties come to some sort of conciliatory agreement to save the holiday season. This is known after the election as the Honeymoon Phase, when previously antagonistic parties feel the need to think “Can’t We All Just Get Along!”Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Gold Could Easily Double Amidst Hyperinflation Collapse / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Nick_Barisheff
Asset manager Nick Barisheff says, “There’s never been a fiat currency in history that didn’t end in hyperinflation and complete collapse.” Barisheff thinks that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s most recent call to have an “unlimited debt ceiling” for the U.S. was “just telling the truth.” That’s essentially what we have now with “open-ended” money printing by the Fed. Barisheff adds, “All it’s doing is postponing a problem . . . it makes it bigger and eventually it blows up.” Forget about remedies for the economy, it’s too late.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Gold Price Volatility Declines To Record Low On Bullish Sentiment / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,726.75, EUR 1,350.71, and GBP 1,085.05 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,734.00, EUR 1,354.05, and GBP 1,089.06 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $33.07/oz, €25.94/oz and £20.84/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,576.50/oz, palladium at $633.80/oz and rhodium at $1,050/oz.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Brazil and Kazakhstan Add to Gold Reserves Whilst Germany Sells / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
WHOLESALE gold bullion prices climbed back above $1725 an ounce Wednesday morning in London, making up some ground lost the previous day, while stocks and the Euro recovered losses made in Asian trading immediately after the news that European policymakers had failed to reach a deal on Greece.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
World Energy Outlook 2012: High Priced Energy / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Andrew_McKillop
THE IEA MOVES ON
The IEA in late November published the 2012 edition of its flagship annual study, the World Energy Outlook, but with now-admitted "treading of a fine line", between its mandate, and its recent and present policy interests, fantasies, or foibles. The Agency (IEA) describes itself, in each issue of the WEO, as an "autonomous agency established in November 1974" with its its primary mandate, which it says it continues to pursue, being two-fold: to promote oil supply security amongst its now-28 member countries through "collective response to physical disruptions in oil supply", and also to provide "authoritative research and analysis on ways to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy" for its exclusively OECD member countries.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Gold and Silver Trend Prognosis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
We’ve been surprised at the recent action in the precious metals complex. During the recent correction the shares were showing quite a bit more strength than the metals. Then the shares took a dive below support yet the metals maintained their recent lows! How do we interpret this wild volatility in the relationship between the shares and the metals? Quite often we look at daily and weekly charts. Now is the time to take a look at the monthly charts which can help us get a better read on the larger trends at hand.