Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Illusions versus Reality in the Copper Market Commodities Crash / Commodities / Commodities Trading

By: Gary_Dorsch

“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. It’s a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead, your next stop, the “Twilight Zone!”

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Gold Gains, ECB "Could Print Euros" to Fund Own Bailout / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ben_Traynor

SPOT MARKET gold bullion prices climbed to $1687 an ounce Wednesday morning London time – their highest level since September 23 – as stocks and commodities also gained despite Slovakia's parliament voting against measures designed to promote Eurozone stability.

"Only a close back above $1684 will [see] the market shift neutral," write technical analysts at gold bullion dealing bank Scotia Mocatta.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Gold Supported by Geopolitical Risks in Middle East and China, Currency and Trade War / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: GoldCore

Gold is trading at USD 1,684.20, EUR 1,221.90, GBP 1,068.81, JPY 129,103.00, AUD 1,663.34 and CHF 1,509.80 per ounce.

Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,687.00, GBP 1,070.36 and EUR 1,222.02 per ounce.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Energy Investors Pocket Profit on Oil Price Rally – And It’s Just the Beginning / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Money_Morning

Kerri Shannon writes: Investors in energy stocks are enjoying an oil price rally that continued for a fifth trading session yesterday (Tuesday), pulling many oil-related investments up with it.

U.S. oil futures rose 40 cents to $85.81 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). Black gold has climbed 12% since hitting a 52-week low of $76 a barrel last week - a 37% fall from its April high near $120 a barrel.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

What Economic Uncertainty Means for the Rare Earth Metals Sector / Commodities / Metals & Mining

By: Critical_Metals_Repo

The rare earth sector has seen astronomical gains in recent years as Chinese export restrictions, short-sighted U.S. policy and investor interest combined to make front page news. In this exclusive article for The Critical Metals Report, Chris Berry, founder and president of House Mountain Partners, LLC, argues that a "Great Reset" is changing the face of the sector, rewarding explorers far more selectively.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Japan's Tsunami Nuclear Crisis Has Created Uranium Investment Opportunities / Commodities / Uranium

By: The_Energy_Report

The uranium market is still shell-shocked from the tsunami in Japan and the resulting anti-nuclear backlash. But Philip Williams, vice president of business development for investment firm Pinetree Capital in Toronto, is urging investors to dust themselves off and start shopping. Strong fundamentals are still in play and upcoming catalysts could boost suffering uranium equities this year. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Williams discusses which companies he expects will ride the updraft.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Gold Not in a Bubble, On Its Way to $10,000 an Ounce / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Nick_Barisheff

"Gold is not a financial asset to be compared with dot-com stocks or Miami condos and it is not a commodity like pork bellies or crude oil. It is the ultimate currency for the truly sophisticated wealth holder in a time of substantial unreserved credit promotion." ~ Paul Brodsky (Fund Manager)

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Canadian Oil Sands - A Good Investment? Not in Europe, Apparently / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: OilPrice_Com

Any American watching cable TV over the past few months can hardly fail to have noticed the seemingly ubiquitous advertisements extolling the virtues of extracting oil from Canadian oil sands, which the commentators assure their audience has a carbon footprint largely comparable with traditional fossil fuels, and which, if developed will provide not only millions of new jobs but billions of dollars for governments as well as energy security by weaning the Western Hemisphere off its addiction to terrorism-tainted Middle East oil.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Days Of Reckoning Are Here: Accumulate Gold, Silver and Hard Assets / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Jeb_Handwerger

We have alerted our subscribers on many occasions during the past two years that global credit downgrades of sovereign nations were inevitable. It does not take a prophet to have foreseen the turbulence in the global marketplace that we have witnessed since the expiration of QE2. Standard and Poor's cut the rating one level from AAA to AA+. This action sent shockwaves reverberating throughout the financial world as irrational investors sought U.S. treasuries for liquidity. These days of reckoning will be with us for a long time as investors flee from deteriorating paper after an artificially induced debt bubble to undervalued real wealth in the earth assets such as the gold(GDX) and silver miners(SIL).

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Gold Falls Back from Two-Week High on Euro Meeting Delay / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ben_Traynor

THE SPOT MARKET gold price fell to $1655 an ounce Tuesday morning in London – a gain of 1% for the week so far – while stocks and commodities were mostly flat ahead of a Slovakian parliament vote that could potentially jeopardize efforts to tackle the Eurozone debt crisis.

Earlier on Tuesday the gold price hit its highest level in over a fortnight at $1685.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Interim Peak in Bonds Coincides with Rebound in Gold Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne

We’ve written about the importance of intermarket analysis. Movements in various sectors and asset classes influence each other. The Treasury market is the largest in the world and affects trends in other markets. Interestingly, Bonds at times move with Gold. In these cases it is due to a safety or flight to quality play and as a result mining equities tend to underperform. Earlier this year, the safety plays were the Swiss Franc, Gold and Bonds. The first two were first to reverse and now Bonds are putting in an important top. The beneficiary of this market shit will be mining equities and equities in general.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Hedging With Gold Against Imminent Economic Collapse / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: The_Gold_Report

After leaving the securities brokerage industry in 2009, Ian Gordon founded Longwave Analytics and Longwave Strategies to focus on protecting investors from what he believes is a global macroeconomic meltdown that is already underway. Gordon proposes that physical gold and certain gold stocks will be investors' best hedge and overall solution to the worst financial crisis the world has seen. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Gordon shares his thoughts on the current economic mess and how investors can take action now.

The Gold Report: You founded this firm based on your long wave theory that is based on the Kondratieff Cycle. How is this same or different from Kondratieff?

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Peak Silver Revisited: Impacts of a Global Depression, Declining Ore Grades & a Falling EROI  / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Steve_St_Angelo

The world is about to peak in global silver production.  This will not occur due to a lack of silver to mine, but rather as a result of the peaking of world energy resources, declining ore grades, and a falling Energy Returned On Invested – EROI.  The information below will describe a future world that very few have forecasted and even less are prepared.  This is an update to my previous article Peak Silver and Mining by a Falling EROI.  In my first article I stated that global silver production may peak in 2009 if we were to enter a worldwide depression.  We did not have the global depression as massive central bank printing and bailouts have thus far postponed the inevitable.

Monday, October 10, 2011

The Eurozone Lights a Fire Under Gold and Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Eric_McWhinnie

Just three months after passing a Euro stress test with flying colors, Belgium has agreed to buy the local consumer-lending unit of Dexia for 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion), and will guarantee 60% of a so-called bank to set up for Dexia’s troubled assets. The bailout was inevitable as European sovereign debt worries caused the bank’s short-term funding to vanish. Dexia’s agreement to nationalize its Belgian banking division and receive state guarantees paves the way for other eurozone governments to provide rescue packages to strengthen banking sectors.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Gold Starts Week Strongly / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ben_Traynor

WHOLESALE MARKET gold bullion prices climbed to $1670 an ounce Monday lunchtime in London – 2% up on last week's close – while stocks and commodities also rose and government bonds fell following a pledge by France and Germany to recapitalize Europe's banks.

Silver bullion rose to $32.37 – 3.8% up on where it ended last week.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Gold At Major Crossroads / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: EconMatters

I think next week will mark a major turning point in the gold market. Depending on whether the dollar continues higher or turns back down we will either see a resumption of the D-Wave decline or this will just turn into a normal run-of-the-mill intermediate degree correction followed by another leg up in this 2 1/2 year C-wave advance.

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Gold Failing to Break Higher, More Downside Ahead? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Merv_Burak

Ho-Hum!  50 points here, 50 points there but really not going anywhere.  Gold can’t seem to get any upside steam.  Is more downside ahead?

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Gold Likely Heading Lower, Silver in a Bear Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ned_W_Schmidt

2011, quickly moving toward history book status, may be known more for what did not happen than what did. Hyperinflation may still be lurking, but for about the fourth year is yet to be seen. U.S. dollar should have been to zero, per the many popular forecasts, at least twice. Euro's imminent demise has been quietly rescheduled for 2012. Beginning of Silver's decade became instead the beginning of Silver Bear Market II. $Gold is not trading above $2,000. Guess that means $5,000 was not reached either. Fourth year in a row for the conspicuous absence of hurricanes in Florida. So much for weather gurus, climate change, Keynesian forecasters, and other forms of sorcery.

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Gold Intermarket Insights / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Capital3X

We analyze Gold charts by looking at Inter-market analysis for the month of October. This is an update from our August Gold analysis and September Gold analysis all of which had noticed the stalling Gold at 1888 before we issued our shorts to catch the trend move to 1603.

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Inflation, Money Circulation Problems = Gangrenous Liquidity, Rising Gold Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Julian_DW_Phillips

According to the Oxford Dictionary: - Inflation, the general increase of prices and fall in purchasing value of money. Deflation, reverse or reversal of inflation. Stagflation, state of inflation without the corresponding increase of demand and employment.

A situation arises where the quantity of money is not as important as how far its circulation reaches. It slowly becomes insufficient to buy the needs and wants of the population at the periphery of the economy.