Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Quanticipation in the Gold Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Adrian_Ash
Will he, won't he? Either way, gold says more QE is coming in due course regardless...
SO HERE'S a turn-up for the gold price.
Today saw gold priced in Dollars – and everything else – rising after disappointment over new quantitative easing from the US Federal Reserve.
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Gold and Silver: Breakout Time, Not Bubble Time / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Jeb_Handwerger
The Chinese ideograph for crisis is represented by the sign for danger joined together with the symbol for opportunity. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, August 31, 2012
Investor Window to Buy Gold Below $1,700 Is Closing / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Jeff_Clark
Jeff Clark, Casey Research writes: Even the hardiest investors have been lamenting that gold prices have been stuck in a rut for a long time. Others with less experience have watched the market waiting for something to happen….
And as always, many bailed out of the market entirely, licking their wounds.
But some, including me, have been stocking up.
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Gold Stocks GDX ETF Rising / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Zeal_LLC
As gold enters into a season of fundamental strength and what should be a powerful new upleg, there ought to be rekindled interest in gold stocks. In fact, if gold indeed rallies the gold-stock sector will likely see a much-more-powerful upleg than the metal considering how oversold it’s been. And one of the first places investors will go when they are drawn to this sector is the venerable GDX Gold Miners ETF.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Gold Struggling at Resistance Levels / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: P_Radomski_CFA
On this week’s news roster we had a hurricane and the Republican National Convention (which scared some Democrats more than the hurricane), but all eyes are on a small town in the state of Wyoming, Jackson Hole, whose claim to fame is majestic Rocky Mountain scenery and the annual meeting of the Kansas City Federal Reserve. At the end of every August, central bankers and economists converge here to take in the views and discuss the latest economic issues. But mostly, along with everyone else on the planet, they wait to see what the Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will say at 10 a.m. Eastern this morning.
Friday, August 31, 2012
August 2012: Gold and Platinum Up 2.7% And 6.4% While Silver Surges 9% / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,657.75, EUR 1,319.03 and GBP 1,047.68 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,657.00, EUR 1,320.21 and GBP 1,046.48 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $30.61/oz, €24.42/oz and £19.39/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,516.00/oz, palladium at $617.00/oz and rhodium at $1,025/oz.
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Gold Headed for Third Straight Monthly Gain, Bernanke Speech "Unlikely to Give Clear Policy Signal" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
WHOLESALE prices to buy gold bullion hovered close to $1660 an ounce Friday morning in London, around ten Dollars below where they started the week, while stock markets gained and US Treasuries sold off, ahead of today's much-anticipated speech by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and Monday's Labor Day holiday in the US.
Friday, August 31, 2012
The Gold Cycles: Short and Long Term Outlook / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Submissions
Kudos to gold and its ability to rally after what had been a stretch of fairly average action. The mini breakout by gold has broken the long running series of lower Daily Cycle tops, a positive development that will need to be sustained if we’re to see Gold begin to move higher over time. For now though, Gold has pushed into the extreme overbought areas which most often result in a decent sell-off and retracement into a Cycle Low. Especially as this is the 3rd Daily Cycle, these tend to be volatile and erratic Cycles with significant gains, but with a tendency to give back much of the gains.
Friday, August 31, 2012
The Real Cause of High Oil Prices / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: OilPrice_Com
Nowadays the energy picture is confusing at best as the more information we are shown the more blurred our vision seems to become. Mixed messages, poor reporting and a media hungry to sensationalize anything it thinks can grab a headline have led to many wondering what the true energy situation is. We hear numerous reports on how the shale revolution will transform the energy sector, why alternatives are just around the corner, why advances in oilfield extraction techniques and new finds will help to lower oil prices. Yet no sooner have we read these rosy reports than we are bombarded with negative news on the Middle East, on why alternatives will never compete, on peak oil and declining oil production.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Start Your Own GOLD STANDARD / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Eric_McWhinnie
The gold standard is a monetary system where the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold. The purpose of this system is to force responsibility onto the government and its fiscal policy. The United States abandoned ties to the gold standard in 1971, but has recently caught the attention of the political world due to the Republican party. However, as many market participants are showing, you do not need a political movement to start your own gold standard.
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Gold Option Traders Most Bullish Since October 2008 Bottom / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,657.00, EUR 1,320.21 and GBP 1,046.48 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,664.25, EUR 1,325.04 and GBP 1,051.66 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $30.78/oz, €24.63/oz and £19.50/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,528.25/oz, palladium at $631.80/oz and rhodium at $1,025/oz.
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Jackson Hole Puts Gold on Hold, But New US Money-Printing "Not Yet Priced In" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Adrian_Ash
WHOLESALE-MARKET prices to buy gold retreated Thursday morning in London, ticking back towards yesterday's 1-week low at $1653 per ounce as world stock markets also fell.
Prices for silver bullion held steadier, trading just 10¢ below Monday's start at $30.70 per ounce.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Prepare For Gold and Silver Sector Fireworks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Bob_Kirtley
The Jackson Hole meeting is now upon us, a gathering of the worlds central bankers who will put their collective brain power to work in an attempt to resolve the economic woes that most sovereign states are now struggling to remedy.
As investors in gold and silver these meetings are important to us as they may provide us with clues as to what policy changes are are about to be unleashed upon us as they attempt to steer the world away from a global depression. The Federal Reserve is also charged with keeping unemployment low and so it needs to implement strategies that will hopefully boost the American economy.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Uncovering the Real Price of Peak Oil / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Casey_Research
Doug Casey, chairman of Casey Research and expert on crisis investing, is on the search for real wealth – not investments in companies that push around paper. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Casey shares his pragmatic take on what's next for oil, gas, and nuclear power.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Corn and Canola, a Tale of Two Agricultural Markets / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
With harvesters now beginning to move in parts of the U.S. the reality of the drought is now being recorded. Farmers face the loss of substantial income, and in many cases actual losses. Early estimate of losses by crop insurers is $30 billion(Financial Times, 27 August). Tax payers will be paying a significant portion of that loss. Crop insurance is the mechanism for insuring that farmers can plant a crop in April of 2013.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Gold: Buy, Hold or Sell? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Peter_Zihlmann
In 1980, the price of one ounce of GOLD reached $ 850. Today, the purchasing power of the US dollar is substantially less than in 1980. The price of one ounce of gold would have to rise to $ 2,550, assuming an annual average inflation of 3.5%, to reflect the value of the US dollar thirty years ago.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Euro Gold Technicals Look Near Perfect / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,664.25, EUR 1,325.04 and GBP 1,051.66 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,663.50, EUR 1,325.18 and GBP 1,053.52 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $30.79/oz, €24.62/oz and £19.54/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,519.10/oz, palladium at $630.80/oz and rhodium at $1,025/oz.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Bernanke Disappointment Could See Gold Price Correct / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
WHOLESALE gold prices dipped below $1665 an ounce during Wednesday morning's London trading, slightly below where they started the week, while stock markets also edged lower, with markets focused on upcoming meetings of central bankers in the US and Europe.
Silver prices fell to $30.76 an ounce – in line with last week's close – as other industrial commodities also ticked lower, following news that iron ore prices in China had dropped for the 13th day in a row.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Why Platinum is a Screaming Buy / Commodities / Platinum
By: Money_Morning
By Martin Hutchinson writes:
You won't read about it in the mainstream news, but the South African mining industry is in the fight of its life. That makes one investment a screaming buy.
You see, violent strikes have paralyzed several South African mines this year, including most recently the giant Lonmin platinum mine.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Why You Should Invest in What China Needs to Buy / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: The_Energy_Report
The U.S. is no longer the safest place in the world to invest, says Don Coxe, a strategic advisor to the BMO Financial Group. While U.S.-based companies are forced to wade through red tape and legal challenges, relatively lax regulation in emerging economies created stiff competition. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Coxe explains how investors should position themselves as China and India rise to superpower status.
The Energy Report: You are famous for taking the long view of the political economy, Don. What does the machinery of history tell us about the likely future of the Western world as measured against the newly industrializing economies, including China, India and Brazil?
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