Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, September 20, 2012
'Golden Cross' For Gold and Silver Signals Further Gains / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,760.00, EUR 1,360.33 and GBP 1,088.03 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,774.50, EUR 1,361.44 and GBP 1,092.54 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $34.31/oz, €26.61/oz and £21.28/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,619.50/oz, palladium at $663.50/oz and rhodium at $1,225/oz.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
You Can Drill All You Want, Oil Prices Are Still Headed Higher / Commodities / Crude Oil
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Today I want to focus again on oil prices. It seems that some TV pundits have never heard (with apologies to Alexander Pope) that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Some people on Wall Street believe that by scaring the individual investor they stand to make a greater profit for themselves.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Gold Capped Ahead of Election / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
It looks like there will be an attempt to cap gold and silver until the election or Kingdom come, whichever comes first. Some days it is hard to tell. The elites of the world seems quite determined to have another go at provoking destruction on a massive scale to escape the ennui of another Great Depression, successfully achieved once again.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Agricultural Commodity Markets Inflationary Peak Forecast 2013 / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
Agricultural commodities prices resumed upward trends in June 2012, largely due to drought conditions in key global farming areas on top of existing low inventories. Extreme global conditions continue, with the period June-August of 2012 the hottest such period historically on record.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Can Dividends Cure Gold Stocks Hangovers? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
A market hangover may be causing suffering among gold mining equities, but there are still some cash-rich companies beguiling investors with record-breaking dividends. Dividend distributions are up by about one-third year-on-year from many major mining companies, according to David Christensen, chief executive and president of ASA Gold and Precious Metals Limited. The Gold Report spoke with Christensen at the Denver Gold Forum in this exclusive interview.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The Fed’s Balance Sheet Puts Gold and Silver on the Warpath / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
After remaining calm for most of the summer, precious metals have been on the warpath like they have something to prove. Their move started last month and accelerated with the Federal Reserve’s latest quantitative easing program. The central bank’s third attempt to print prosperity has spurred a new round of balance sheet analysis and gold price targets.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Gold Exhibits Strength! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde
This morning the Japanese came out with more easing and it comes on the heels of what China, the ECB and the Fed announced last week. Does anyone see a pattern here? The whole world is once again awash in liquidity. All of this serves to support stocks, commodities and gold although stocks and commodities have been surprisingly flat for the last two sessions. Maybe today will be different. One thing that has been strong, and remains surprisingly strong, is gold. Gold has been heading higher every since it tested the strong support at 1,522.20 way back in May:
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
ECB Debasement Is Akin To Work Of Devil – Risk Of “Rapid Currency Depreciation” / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,774.50, EUR 1,361.44 and GBP 1,092.54 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,756.75, EUR 1,344.31 and GBP 1,081.81 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $34.66/oz, €26.76/oz and £21.48/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,632.00/oz, palladium at $666.70/oz and rhodium at $1,300/oz.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Gold Seen Breaching $1800 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
THE SPOT gold price fell to $1772 an ounce Wednesday morning in London, a few hours after hitting its highest level for nearly seven months after the Bank of Japan became the latest central bank to announce further quantitative easing measures.
"It seems that the stars are now aligned for gold to move higher," says Anne-Laure Tremblay, analyst at BNP Paribas.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Very Bullish Long-Term Outlook for Silver Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
While we have written about Silver here and there, we have not covered it publicly in over a year. The market made an obvious cyclical top last spring and the tremendous gains from late 2008 into 2011 would need to be corrected and digested. From May to July the market tested its lows successfully and formed support. The recent advance confirmed the lows and confirms that we are likely in a new cyclical bull market. Based on the technicals, Silver and silver stocks continue to show tremendous long-term potential.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Why Bernanke Refuses to Let Crude Oil Prices Fall / Commodities / Crude Oil
A prominent symptom of the final deflationary phase of the 60-year/120-year cycle scheduled to bottom in 2014 is, ironically, asset price inflation. While this may seem contradictory at first glance, it makes perfect sense after closer scrutiny. Asset price inflation is the central bank’s response to the destructive undercurrent of economic deflation. It requires a decisive action, as the recent QE3 initiative showed.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
How to Find Massively Undervalued Energy Stocks in Today's Irrational Market / Commodities / Energy Resources
Bob Moriarty knows his own mind, and his frank, no-nonsense commentary has won him a large following of devoted fans—not to mention a track record of outstanding returns on investment. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, the irreverent, irrepressible 321energy.com founder shares his take on energy markets. Although he describes today's markets as the most irrational he's ever witnessed, he asserts that energy stocks—many of them massively undervalued—are bound to reward long-haul investors like himself. "You don't have to pick stocks in this environment," he advises. "Just take a dart and throw it."
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Arab Spring and Crude Oil Prices / Commodities / Crude Oil
Crude oil prices hit a four-month high this week on the back of rising tensions in the Middle East and North Africa and the unfortunate murder of the U.S. ambassador to Libya. Added impetus on the upside was given to oil by the announcement of more money printing (QE3) by the Federal Reserve which said it would launch an open-ended commitment to purchase $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities monthly.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Gold Falls Back "On Profit Taking" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
SPOT MARKET prices quoted for gold bullion traded just below $1760 an ounce Tuesday morning in London, 1% off the high hit last week after the US Federal Reserve announced its new open-ended asset purchase program.
"Immediate bullish upside momentum will be maintained while the gold price trades above Thursday's low at $1723.69," reckons Axel Rudolph, senior technical analyst at Commerzbank.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Goldcorp Golden Buying Opportunity / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
The price of gold one year ago touched an all-time high of over $1,900 per ounce, as investors flocked to the yellow metal in the wake of the first sovereign-debt downgrade in US history and above-target inflation in most emerging markets.However, the bull market in gold was due for a breather. The Midas metal has punctuated its 700 percent rally over the past decade with several 10 percent to 20 percent pullbacks; the sell-off in May to just over $1,500 per ounce fits the pattern.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Investing in Natural Gas: These ETFs Hold Clues to a Price Rebound / Commodities / Natural Gas
Analysts and experts love to say the U.S. is "the Saudi Arabia of natural gas."
That statement implies the U.S. is to natural gas as Saudi Arabia is to oil: One of the world's top producers with decades (perhaps longer) worth of reserves of the commodity.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Gold and Silver Cycles Analysis, Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
Here is a great weekend report by a friend and trader who runs the financial site Financial Tap. Every once in awhile he makes his reports available to the public so they can see the quality analysis he brings to the table and he also offers a free trial to his premium service.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Stagflation In Extremis and The Explosive Rise Of Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
Stagflation is where economic growth slows, unemployment is high and prices rise.
Stagflation’s appearance in the 1970s was like an outbreak of three-headed children. It wasn’t supposed to happen. Prevailing wisdom—an oxymoron among economists—held that high employment and rising prices were economic handmaidens; and that, conversely, slowing economies and inflation were mutually exclusive
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
All Signs Pointing to Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
With another syringe of quantitative easing being injected into the U.S. economy’s bloodstream, Ben Bernanke is giving the markets their liquidity fix. The Federal Reserve’s action reaffirmed my stance I’ve reiterated on several occasions that the governments across developed markets have no fiscal discipline, opting for ultra-easy monetary policies to stimulate growth instead.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Silver Price Decisive Strong Breakout Targets $60 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
The strong uptrend in silver of the past several weeks is believed to mark the start of a major uptrend that should take the price comfortably to new highs before it’s done. On the 12-year log chart for silver below we can see that this uptrend is still in its infancy, as it has a target at the top channel return line shown, which means it should get to over $60 on this advance, a modest objective given the stunt pulled by the SPSC (Silver Price Supporters Club) over at the Fed last week.
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