Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Gold Starts Week Higher on Prospects for Fiscal Cliff Deal / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Ben_Traynor

SPOT MARKET gold bullion prices hovered close to $1725 an ounce during this morning's London trading, holding gains made overnight in Asia, as stocks and commodities also recovered some ground lost last week, after news that a deal may be achieved in time to avoid so-called fiscal cliff of US tax rises and spending cuts currently scheduled for the start of 2013.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Gold Stocks Correction Nearly Done, Forcast 2013 / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: David_Petch

The past week has been witness to a very sharp decline in energy and commodity stocks, while broad stock markets and related commodities really have not moved. Huge noted gaps were put in place in the HUI which saw an extreme price excursion beyond lower 21 and 34 MA Bollinger bands, indicating that a bottom was likely put in place.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Commerzbank Forecasts New Record Euro Gold Price By Year End / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: GoldCore

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,723.25, EUR 1,349.66, and GBP 1,083.67 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,710.00, EUR 1,342.76, and GBP 1,077.91 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $32.70/oz, €25.72/oz and £20.65/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,567.50/oz, palladium at $633.30/oz and rhodium at $1,080/oz.

Monday, November 19, 2012

The Powers That Be Don’t Want Sovereign Bonds… They Want Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Graham_Summers

If you want further evidence that the financial elites are already preparing for a default from Spain and a collateral crunch, you should consider that the large clearing houses (ICE, CEM and LCH which oversee the trading of the $700+ trillion derivatives market) have ALL begun accepting Gold as collateral.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Gold Bullion Flowing From West to East / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Alasdair_Macleod

Earlier this month Eric Sprott circulated a paper, co-authored by him, which concluded that Western central banks have considerably less physical gold than they claim. It shows that since the year 2000 there has been a net increase in identifiable annual demand of 2,268 tonnes, and concludes that some supply, apart from mine output from the “free” world, must come from Western central banks – because there can be no other source.

Monday, November 19, 2012

The Forces That Will Push Silver Over $100 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013

By: Steve_St_Angelo

There are tremendous forces at work that will push silver over $100 an ounce.  Very few precious metal analysts understand all the forces that are at work.  Some analysts focus on specific areas such as the gold-silver ratio and technical analysis, while others write about future investment and industrial demand.  And then of course, we have the more unorthodox analysts who delve into the ongoing manipulation of gold and silver -- a realization shared by the author of this article.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Gold And Silver – Market Says Wait / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Michael_Noonan

There is a reason why it has not been easy to trade gold or silver, of late. One area where information is least reliable is in the middle of a trading range. That is precisely where the price of gold is currently, on the larger monthly time frame. However, while waiting idly until clarity re-enters the picture, we can do some stage-setting in preparation for what is to come, in either direction.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Peak Oil And The Olduvai Gorge / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Andrew_McKillop

The Olduvai Gorge theory of Richard Duncan was that human society would be forced back to the anthropoid ape stage of evolution by peak oil and energy scarcity, and would live like Tanzania's "Lucy" the best known precursor or human ancestor, taxonomically called "Australopithecus afarensis", of about 2 million years ago. Duncan's angle, developed in the late 1990s, was that peak oil and energy resource depletion would firstly make inevitable, then speed up this retreat and defeat of Humanity, as human society was forced back to hunting and gathering. An Internet search with Olduvai Gorge theory will produce hundreds of responses.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Negative Real Interest Rates Continue To Drive The Gold Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: GoldSilverWorlds

People tend to focus on the daily “noise” and often forget the long term view. The first point that Ronald Stoeferle made during our discussion, was that the major topics of his first report (from  five years ago) are still relevant. In fact, he doesn’t see any fundamental change since then. The only change he noticed is that the figures became bigger, in the first place the debt levels and the amounts of the rescue packages.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Clean Coal And The Transformation Of Society / Commodities / Coal

By: Andrew_McKillop

The OECD's so-called "oil and energy watchdog agency", the International Energy Agency (IEA) continues to claim, firstly, that CO2 sequestration and deep underground storage or other disposal - called CCS - is a vital and obligatory energy revolution for all countries, due to the anthropogenic global warming crisis. Secondly it claims that CCS can be made a technological and industrial reality but will not "significantly harm the economy" or create the need for an unprecedented transformation of both the economy and society.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

How to Protect Your Portfolio from a Slumping U.S. Dollar in 2013 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: InvestmentContrarian

John Paul Whitefoot writes: No one said austerity measures would be an easy pill to swallow. But, after decades of overspending, they’re become an unwanted necessity. And the fed-up workers of Europe are uniting!

Protests broke out Wednesday across Europe in a coordinated day of action over ongoing austerity policies. While some of the largest and most violent protests took place in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy also took to the streets.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Nickel Metal Mining Like its 1864 / Commodities / Nickel

By: Richard_Mills

Nickel Sulphide Project Pipeline Empty

Nickel is present in over 3000 different alloys that are used in over 300,000 products for consumer, industrial, military, transport/aerospace, marine and architectural applications.

Nickel's biggest use, about 65%, is in alloying - particularly with chromium and other metals to produce stainless and heat-resisting steels. Its primary function is to stabilize the austenitic (face-centered cubic crystal) structure of the steel. Normal carbon steel will, on cooling, transform from an austenite structure to a mixture of ferrite and cementite. When added to stainless steel nickel stops this transformation keeping the material fully austenite on cooling. Austenitic stainless steels have high ductility, low yield stress and high tensile strength when compared to carbon steel - aluminum and copper are examples of other metals with the austenitic structure.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

The Cash Broilers Market / Commodities / Livestock

By: Ned_W_Schmidt

J. Wellington Wimpy was always one of our favorites. The guy was somewhat of a gourmet as his favorite food was hamburgers. He was also a pal of Popeye, an individual addicted to spinach. However, Wimpy would not be happy with the modern world. Finding a good hamburger is tough these days.¹ (Are they still legal in the nanny republic of NYC?) Today the world is filled with an endless variety of boneless, skinless, tasteless, tough-to-chew chicken breast sandwiches? Wimpy would think the world has gone mad if he were still around.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Marc Faber, Gold and a Special Picture of Ben Bernanke / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Adrian_Ash

What Marc Faber said in Hong Kong this week…

YOU ALWAYS get great presentations from the biggest players in gold and silver at the annual London Bullion Market Association conference.

Being in Hong Kong this year, the world's premier event for the bullion industry also got lots of great insights from genuine Asian insiders – ICBC, Kotak Mahindra, the People's Bank of China no less. 

Friday, November 16, 2012

Gold and Silver Bullish Technicals / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Zeal_LLC

With the US stock markets falling sharply since the elections, shell-shocked investors are scrambling for the exits.  And this mass exodus is certainly rational in light of 2013’s record tax hikes looming for American investors.  But with interest rates near record lows, cash yields nothing and bonds are hyper-risky.  So a fantastic alternative for capital is the precious metals, which are very cheap technically.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Shale Gas Will be the Next Market Bubble to Pop / Commodities / Natural Gas

By: OilPrice_Com

The "shale revolution" has been grabbing a great deal of headlines for some time now. A favourite topic of investors, sector commentators and analysts - many of whom claim we are about to enter a new energy era with cheap and abundant shale gas leading the charge. But on closer examination the incredible claims and figures behind many of the plays just don't add up. To help us to look past the hype and take a critical look at whether shale really is the golden goose many believe it to be or just another over-hyped bubble that is about to pop, we were fortunate to speak with energy expert Arthur Berman.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Gold and Silver Stocks – A Dramatic Change in Fundamentals or a Short-Term Anomaly? / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: P_Radomski_CFA

Stock exchange is a very volatile, emotion-driven place. Even though most of the time one can predict future moves in particular assets with decent effectiveness, every once in a while abrupt and unexpected market moves take place. And we have just seen such violent and heavy declines in precious metals mining stocks.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Gold and Silver Supply - Will the Real Ratio Please Step Forward? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis

Those attracted to the precious metals markets are often curious about the various ratios existing between gold and silver, as well as what these ratios might reveal about the relative fair values of these key investment metals. 

Friday, November 16, 2012

Gold and Silver: Accumulation and Liquidity / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis

As history has shown again and again, hard currencies like gold and silver are perhaps the only truly safe long term investments.

Part of the safety of these assets arises from the fact that they are traditionally accumulated and hoarded by individuals, especially in financially challenging times and periods of high inflation. Even more importantly, precious metals like gold and silver are liquid assets that can be readily sold for currency or exchanged in a barter situation.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Gold Being Liquidated for Cash as Stock Markets Fall Ahead of Fiscal Cliff Negotiations / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Ben_Traynor

WHOLESALE gold bullion prices fell below $1710 an ounce Friday morning in London, dropping below that level for the second day in a row, as stocks, commodities and the Euro all fell and US Treasuries gained ahead of negotiations among US lawmakers about the so-called fiscal cliff.