Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Challenging Gold Price None Manipulation Analysis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
A reader has written in challenging me on my view that the gold price is not being manipulated at this juncture in time. FYI, here is my response to him
Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Will Gold Price Get Compressed? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
We go into a Fed week sitting right at the highs made a couple of months ago in the S&P. It should lead to a couple of more days up. Monday is stacked with data in the AM. Some of it should be market moving.I looked at the long term picture on the SPY earlier in the week. Today I will look at GLD..
Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Currencies and Gold Analysis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
The following excerpt is from the currency section of the latest full-length market wrap report, available on the Honest Money Gold & Silver Report website. All major markets are covered: stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities, with the emphasis on the precious metals - the only secular bull market existent.
Currencies
Before getting into the analysis of the dollar and the euro, I'd like to show a few charts of the inter-market relationships between gold, the dollar, and the euro.
Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
PDAC and Gold Fever / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Perhaps something akin to prospectors rushing from around the world in the grips of gold fever to California in the middle of the 19th century, thousands flock to the annual PDAC (Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada International Trade Show & Investors Exchange) to pan for nuggets for their organizations or for themselves. For this exclusive interview, The Gold Report caught up with Kaiser Bottom-Fish Report editor John Kaiser on the last day of the 2010 PDAC last week in Toronto. John finds that the bigger the event gets, the more patience and effort it seems to take, but those who are persistent and willing to dig can still cart away useful information and insights. Read on as he shares his takeaways.
Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Agri-Food's Stock Rotation Expectations for 2010 / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
THE benchmarks chosen by a nation say a lot about the future that nation will have. In the U.S. we seem to have chosen as one benchmark how often the central bank can create an over inflated stock market. Or, success is the percentage of the nation's mortgages financed by the government. Those benchmarks are reflected in the dismal leadership at the Federal Reserve.
Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Nuclear Power Investing Critical Mass / Commodities / Energy Resources
A point or situation at which change occurs - Support for the measure has reached critical mass.
As the world's population and standard of living continues to climb, demand for more - and cleaner energy - grows alongside the pressures we continue to put on our environment.
Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The Currency Markets and the Gold Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Dear Reader, Over the past few months there has been a growing amount of interest in the currency markets especially the pound, the euro and the dollar. Each has faced issues that have exposed weaknesses. The pound has long come into criticism for being overvalued. The euro has been dragged through fresh scepticism by the Greek crisis, and the dollar continues to be questioned as the reserve currency of choice.
Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 15, 2010
What's Going to Happen to Gold Next? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
This week could be shaping up to be an extraordinary week in the markets. I strongly recommend that traders everywhere take precautionary measure measures to protect capital.
Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 15, 2010
Gold Cautious Ahead of Fed Interest Rate Decision / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
THE PRICE OF GOLD gave back an early 0.6% rise vs. the Dollar as New York opened for business on Monday, slipping together with world stock markets and commodity prices ahead of tomorrow's Federal Reserve interest-rate decision.The Euro and Sterling both fell on the currency market, helping the gold price for European and UK buyers to rise.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Gold Supported by Geopolitical and Sovereign Risk as S&P and Moodys Warn US / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Gold fell in US trading on Friday from $1,119/oz to $1,098/oz to close with a loss of 0.54% and a loss of nearly 3% for the week. Silver was again more resilient and fell less than 2% last week. Gold has range traded from $1,102/oz to $1,106/oz so far in Asian and European trading this morning. Gold is currently trading at $1,103.00/oz and in euro and GBP terms, gold is trading at €804/oz and £732/oz respectively.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Gold, Where We’ve Been…And Maybe Where We’re Going / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Presently there are about 5 billion ounces of gold floating around out there some where. More and more investors are adding gold to their portfolios as insurance. Gold has become the 3rd largest asset held by world central bankers. And many families are adding gold to their personal portfolios as they come to discover that all is not right in Alice in Financial Land.
Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Technical View of What’s Next for Precious Metals, Stocks & the Dollar / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Last weeks price action unfolded just as we expected. Money poured into stocks with the focus being on small cap, banks and technology stocks. The fact that these sectors are showing strength while utilities, health care and consumer staples lag is a good sign that investors are once again taking risks in the market.
Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Are Crude Oil & Natural Gas about to Explode Higher? / Commodities / Crude Oil
Last weeks price action unfolded just as we expected. Money poured into stocks with the focus being on small cap, banks and technology stocks. The fact that these sectors are showing strength while utilities, health care and consumer staples lag is a good sign that investors are once again taking risks in the market.
Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Gold Tumbles Into Short-term Bearish Trend, Long-term Still Bullish / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
It’s been a bummer of a week but all is not lost yet. Markets go up, down and sideways. This seems to be one of those intermediate term sideway periods with short term ups and downs.
Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, March 13, 2010
The Giant Financial Risk You'll Never Hear About on Television / Commodities / Crude Oil
Matt Badiali writes: From 20 miles in the air, the Musandam Peninsula doesn't look like much.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
New ETFs: Bullion Equivalent or Metal Facade? / Commodities / Exchange Traded Funds
Due to my ongoing interest in palladium, I decided to investigate the new platinum and palladium exchange traded funds sponsored by ETF Securities. They just started trading in the US under the symbols PPLT (for platinum) and PALL (for palladium) after a nine month regulatory process.
Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Crude Prices Stagnate Amid Doubts About Global Demand / Commodities / Crude Oil
Crude oil prices tread water for the week as uncertainty about demand continued to weigh on the market. Prices were down slightly on the week, with the benchmark West Texas Intermediate settling on Friday at $81.24 a barrel, compared with $81.50 a week ago.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Paper Gold Market Is Going to Explode, Buy Physical Bullion NOW! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Evidence seems to be mounting that we are headed towards some sort of implosion in the paper Gold market, and perhaps the currency/bond markets in general. Let’s take a look:
Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Jim Rogers Says Buy Gold, Silver and Copper To Protect From Devaluing Currencies / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
Noted commodities investor and author of bestselling books like Hot Commodities and A Bull in China, Jim Rogers says investors should continue to buy gold, silver and copper as governments across the world are dishing out heaps of printed currencies with declining values.
Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, March 12, 2010
Is Gold Starting to Trade Like a Currency? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
"Remember when $25, 000 was a success? Now it is a garbage collector." ~ Frank Dane
At one point on Monday the Dollar was trading in the red and Gold which should have shot up was actually trading roughly 10 dollars lower. As the Day progressed both the Dollar and the Euro were trending upwards together while Gold continued to slide. The story below attempts to provide a reason for this phenomenon.
Read full article... Read full article...