Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, May 05, 2014
Safe Havens Since The Great Financial Crisis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: GoldSilverWorlds
How have the traditional safe havens performed since the great financial crash of 2008 / 2009? What can we expect from the traditional safe havens going forward? Those are the two questions we try to answer in this article.
The safe havens we look at in this article are the US Dollar, US Treasuries, gold and the Yen. Obviously, with a never seen amount of debt backing the US dollar and the Yen, some would (rightfully) question their safe haven status. However, the reality is that the market is considering them safe havens, because of a lack of globally accepted alternatives.
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Saturday, May 03, 2014
Gold And Silver – Elites Want War. Front Man Obama Pushing Hard / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Michael_Noonan
The modus operandi of the elites is to create chaos, preferably in the form of [profitable
for them] war. Their purpose is to create major headaches for governments and people.
The next step is to “offer solutions” to end the chaos. Without fail, the solutions always
favor the elite who gain more control as part of the cost for the rescue.
Saturday, May 03, 2014
Institutions Mislead The Public About Silver Investment Demand / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Steve_St_Angelo
There's a lot of shortsighted and incorrect silver analysis out there, so it's imperative that you consider the information in this article. CPM Group just announced the release of their 2014 Silver Yearbook. In their statement they implied that "Net Global Silver Investment" declined in 2013, while fabrication demand increased.
Friday, May 02, 2014
Gold and Silver Price Continue to Drift / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Alasdair_Macleod
Gold kicked off the week at just over $1300 before declining to a low of $1278 yesterday. Most of the time prices just moved sideways, drifting lower from time to time to test support. And when support materialised, the price quickly reacted upwards, because no bullion bank really wants to sell; instead they are trying to close short positions as profitably as possible.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, May 02, 2014
Why They Don't Care About Your Gold and Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The low hanging fruit of retirement assets currently overwhelm any return on investment for punishing gold and silver investors. This is in addition to the very liquid numismatic and graded coin markets - which add another layer to the complexity of enforcing or confiscating metals.
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Friday, May 02, 2014
May Decline in Gold and Silver Stocks Would Create Opportunity / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2014
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
Last week we noted that the gold and silver shares had formed a short-term rebound in response to an oversold condition. Yet we felt that the downtrend that originated from the hard reversal in March was still in effect. As we go to publish, the rebound appears to be petering out. Be aware that there is more potential downside in May. The good news is a decline in May will likely create a great buying opportunity at the end of the month and in June.
Friday, May 02, 2014
The Ukrainian Shadow on the Energy Markets / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: I’ve spent the last two days in Baltimore, hammering out the details on my next big project. So stay tuned, there are some exciting new opportunities headed your way very shortly.
However, before heading out of town, I was scheduled to do an interview with CNBC Asia. Given the time difference, that meant I needed to be in a Baltimore studio at 1 o’clock in the morning. The show was live from Singapore.
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Friday, May 02, 2014
The Best Way to Profit from Peak Oil / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: The_Energy_Report
The era of cheap oil is over, declares Angelos Damaskos. In this interview with The Energy Report, the principal adviser of the Junior Oils Trust says that oil will become progressively more expensive to find, with prices topping the all-time high of $147 per barrel within 10 to 20 years. He counsels that investors should avoid the majors (too stodgy) and the pure explorers (too risky) and should instead choose producers or near-producers, highlighting five companies with good reserves and room to grow.
The Energy Report: You are the principal advisor of the Junior Oils Trust. What are the advantages of junior oil companies?
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Thursday, May 01, 2014
The Gold Price is Fixed. So What? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Peter_Schiff
We can't ignore it anymore - the markets are rigged. The LIBOR scandal broke almost two years ago, and the banks found responsible for manipulating that key index are still dealing with lawsuits. Meanwhile, allegations of gold market manipulation have been simmering for over a decade and grew into an inferno after the spot price dropped dramatically last spring.
Yet I'm left wondering what the conspiracy theorists hope to accomplish. Yes, I believe in exposing truth for its own sake and that the individual investor should have the same opportunities in the marketplace as the big institutions. But with these conspiracists, there is often a subtext of, "Because the price is suppressed, buying gold is for suckers." I think this conclusion is precisely wrong.
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Thursday, May 01, 2014
The "Holy Grail" of Energy Investing Is Going to Make You – and Your Grandchildren – Rich / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Storage has long been one of energy's biggest "Holy Grails." It holds the key to every significant move into smart grids.
The reason is pretty simple: If energy cannot be stored, it is lost. Even transferring it from one type of energy to another is of little consequence unless you can reverse the erosion in the entire system.
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Thursday, May 01, 2014
Why is Gold Behaving this Way? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Brian_Bloom
The chart of the gold and silver share price index below (source: Stockcharts.com) may be very worrying to some, and it may be a source of great relief to others. It shows a potential Head and Shoulders reversal pattern, with a neckline at 90 and a peak of 107.5. If the neckline is penetrated significantly on the downside, theory says that the target destination will be 90 – 17.5 = 72.5, which will imply a fall of 22% from current levels.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
China Controls The Gold Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
In addition to the latest excellent study of the Chinese gold market by the World Gold Council, we have received other reports on the Chinese gold market that differ with the conclusions drawn by the World Gold Council. But we shouldn't be surprised by this, not only because of the opaque nature of the Chinese gold market and the dearth of accurate statistics that are accessible. Which ones are right is critical for the conclusions each draw paint very different pictures of the future of the gold price.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Gold Miners - End of the Bear Market? / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2014
By: Trader_MC
The analysis of the past twenty years of the Miners Index is showing that an important bottom has been printed in December 2013. The Miners Index’s symmetrical sequence and also the relation between the Miners and the 78.6 Fibonacci Number (both in Price and Time) are validating this major low.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
The Battle Between WTI and Brent - Why the Oil Price “Spread” is Getting Tighter / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: The spread between WTI and Brent is tightening again.
What’s “the spread?”…
It’s the difference in price between what crude oil futures cost on the NYMEX in New York (the West Texas Intermediate rate) and the rate set in London (the Brent rate).
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Obama’s Secret Pipeline More Sensitive than Keystone XL / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Marin_Katusa
Isn’t it odd that an 800-mile pipeline that runs across environmentally sensitive land has been permitted without any mention in the media? Not a word about it from President Obama either.
Obama’s Secret Pipeline will be built over land that’s much more sensitive than that of the Keystone XL pipeline, which gets nothing but front-page coverage. It will actually be 17% (six inches) larger in diameter than Keystone XL (36 inches) and it will transport natural gas, not oil.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Gold and Crude Oil Elliott Wave Analysis / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Gregor_Horvat
On gold we are tracking a triangle placed in wave 4) for a while now. Well, we have been bearish recently within wave D from 1393 which could have bottomed now after a bounce in the past week from around 1265, after three legs down. Keep in mind that market is still sideways, and that we still need wave E retracement which is expected to unfold in the next few weeks. After wave E we will turn bearish for a decline beneath 2013 low.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Bitcoin or Gold: Safeguards and Alternatives to the Global Monetary System / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Keith_Hilden
In our latest Squawk Walk series, we set out to learn- given a chance to either take Bitcoin or gold, what people of different backgrounds would pick, and why. We asked Chinese tourists, locals, and Westerners in Taipei, and we found, surprisingly, that the rate of acceptance regarding Bitcoin or gold was roughly equal, and far different from a 80/20 spread that we were anticipating. The reason? Ultimately it can be boiled down to a preference in risk profile. People who were willing to take on more risk were willing to take the Bitcoin, while people who valued stability and risk mitigation over quick gains were willing to take the gold. What further surprised us is that in a well-to-do neighborhood surrounding the Taipei 101 skyscraper is that risk profiles, again, were split close to 50-50. Furthermore, we were surprised in certain instances when a couple would be interviewed, and that the Taipei woman would have a higher risk profile than the man, who chose gold. The man was more concerned with stability and a long term outlook for their savings.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
China Holds the Keys to the Gold Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Frank_Holmes
Last year China's private-sector demand for gold reached a record level of 1,132 tonnes, and according to the World Gold Council (WGC), the Asian nation could easily dominate the gold market once again, as they predict demand growing 20 percent by 2017.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Gold Mining Stocks Break Out but Gold Price Fails to Follow / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2014
By: P_Radomski_CFA
Briefly: In our opinion no speculative positions are justified from the risk/reward perspective.
The situation in the precious metals sector remains tense - miners have broken above the declining resistance line, while gold hasn't. However, taking Friday's intraday move in the USD into account, we can say more about the gold-USD link. Let's take a closer look (charts courtesy of http://stockcharts.com).
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Listen, Silver: We Need to Talk / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Jeff_Clark
I wrote to Silver last week, and she answered back. I’d like to share our correspondence with you…
Dear Silver,
Happy anniversary. It was on April 25, 2011 that you hit $49.80 per ounce in the New York spot market.
Today, three years later, you sell for around $20, nearly 60% less.
Is your bear market almost over—or are these low prices here to stay? Your price has lagged gold this year, so your normal volatility is lacking. How much longer will you be stuck?
Jeff Clark, silver investor
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