Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Fed QE2 $600 Billion of Money Printing Over the Next Eight Months / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Gary_Dorsch
Crossing the Rubicon into the World of QE - “Imagination is more important than knowledge,” the brilliant Albert Einstein used to say. Imagine for just a moment that the Dow Jones Industrials has become a key instrument of national economic policy, and that by “actively managing” its direction, the Federal Reserve could impact the wealth of tens of millions of US households, and by extension, influence consumer confidence and spending. By ramping up the money supply, and slashing interest rates to zero percent, in order to inflate stock market bubbles, the Fed could in theory, fuel an economic rebound.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Why $100 Dollar Crude Oil Is Rational / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Andrew_McKillop
At the present time, because "currency wars" are the new Call of Duty for finance ministers and central bankers worldwide, it could be risky to predict oil prices attaining US$ 100 a barrel before year end. If the rash of competitive devaluation and depreciation of leading moneys continues, especially the US dollar and the euro, with the Chinese Yuan still receiving the same treatment, a tilt back into global economic recession is in no way impossible. And any dip in global economic growth will slay oil prices, like other commodities and equity values. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Gold, The Market's Global Currency / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Robert_Murphy
World Bank president Robert Zoellick has stirred up a hornet's nest with his recent call for a return to a gold anchor[1] in the global financial system. The usual suspects immediately denounced him, with Keynesian Brad DeLong anointing Zoellick the "Stupidest Man Alive."
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Gold Jumps Back Above $1400, as Contagion Hits Eurozone Bonds / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD gave back an earlier rise in London trade on Thursday morning, still recording its third-highest ever Gold Fix – and the fourth Fix this week above $1400 an ounce – as Asian stock markets closed marginally higher but European share markets stalled.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Invest in Gold with Mining ETFs / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Ron_Rowland
Do you like to dig? I have to admit, it’s not my favorite thing. But if I knew there was gold in the ground I might think differently.
In fact, there is gold in the ground — and plenty of other valuable minerals, too. The hardest part is finding it. However, the digging gets a lot easier when you know where to aim.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
West Loses Resources War, China Controls Rare Earths and Middle East Has Crude Oil / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Dian_L_Chu
While most are anxiously anticipating a grand currency showdown at the G20 summit in Seoul this month, rare earths is bound to be one act of the G20 high Korean Drama amid the mounting worries among corporations and governments around the world about China’s recent export restrictions and embargo,
Thursday, November 11, 2010
SILVER Junior Miners May Lead To Fortune / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Bob_Clark
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." I have always loved that quote from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". Every trader and investor should know it by heart.
Are we a float on a full sea? What vessel will serve us best?
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Going Back to a Gold Standard? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
Three reasons you need your own private Gold Standard, rather than waiting on "sound money" from government...
DID GOLD's first foray over $1,400 mean we're going back to a Gold Standard?
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
How to Profit From the Rebound in Natural Gas Prices / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Money_Morning
Jack Barnes writes:
I love autumn. The leaves start to turn color, and the first hint of winter is invigorating. It is also a great time to peruse each of the financial markets for the shorter-term, seasonal trades that are always lurking - if you know where to look, that is.
One place that's worth looking at right now is the global currency markets, where a major war is currently being waged. As part of the so-called "race to the bottom," the U.S. dollar is down 14% since June. This drop in the greenback has come at a time when a major bull market in commodities has broken out everywhere in the world.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Reverse Bubbleomics: What If OPEC Figures Out Crude Oil’s Fair Price is $150? / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Andrew_Butter
Like one of Victoria’s Dirty Secrets $150 oil is something you don’t joke about. But don’t worry; over a year ago the Saudi’s said that they thought “Fair Value” was above $75, and Lo and Behold, “Above $75” was what happened. Magic Eh!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Gold and Financial Markets Inflation Die Was Cast Before the Elections / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: The_Gold_Report
Regardless of who's controlling the U.S. Congress, Sprott Asset Management Chief Investment Strategist John Embry holds out little hope for economic happiness in the short run. As he tells The Gold Report in this exclusive interview, "It's consequence time" and "any opportunity to have a pleasant outcome. . .in the relatively near term is long gone." John's view of equity markets is equally dim as he foresees the U.S. plowing deeper into quantitative easing to postpone—and maybe even exacerbate—the inevitable. An exception, at least for the time being, may be in senior gold stocks, which he says, "have seldom been cheaper in relation to the price of gold."
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Gold and Silver Become Polarizing / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
To many in the banking and investing community, precious metals were the red headed stepchild. While they were easily accessible and extraordinarily undervalued, no one seemed to pay either gold or silver much attention. Until recently, when both have forged new highs, the opinions on each grow distant. The polarization from such “authorities” on the markets is overwhelming.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Fed Beneficiaries Getting Soaked on Gold Futures Options / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The largest beneficiaries of rampant quantitative easing and destructive monetary policy are those who can borrow at the most wholesale level of the financial system. Those who have access to the discount windows and emergency windows are doing quite fine, borrowing money and dumping it on the markets to benefit from record low rates and quickly growing inflation levels.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Lithium Powers Hi-Tek, New Global X Lithium ETF / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Energy_Report
Cell phones, laptops, mp3 players—they are all powered by lithium. Bruno del Ama, the portfolio manager of New York-based, exchange traded fund issuer Global X Management, has recently launched an ETF targeting lithium companies for just this reason. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, del Ama discusses why sizeable deposits of lithium just now being developed may not be enough to keep up with the demand generated by consumer electronics and the emerging electric vehicles industry over the next decade.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Gold Consolidates in Cautious Trade Ahead of the G20 Summit / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Caution has marked trading in most markets today at the start of the G20 summit in Seoul. Gold is marginally lower in dollar terms but is higher in euro terms due to sovereign debt issues in Ireland and other periphery eurozone states. Gold is also higher in yen which was have fallen sharply today prior to the G20 summit.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Silver Margin Hike Underscores Need For Bullion Ownership / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Jeff_Berwick
On November 9th the Chicago Mercantile Exchange said it will raise its silver futures trading margins by 30 percent to $6,500 an ounce from $5,000 an ounce effective November 10th setting off a rapid sell-off in the metal. No other margin requirement on any other metals was changed.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Silver (2008) Took the Stairs to $21, Silver (2010) Takes the Elevator to $29 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Robert_Singer
Headline today November 9, 2010: Gold and Silver Soar amid New Debt Woes and Gold Standard Talk
The last time the precious metals were in the news was March of 2008. The Future of Silver, According to Adam Smith (1723-1790) was my attempt at humor after I began my lucrative Internet writing career.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Silver Explodes, Gold Surges Higher on Fed Money Printing Firestorm / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Larry_Edelson
The precious metals markets are going wild even as I write these words.
This is precisely what we recommended investing in with our online presentation that so many investors are rushing to view right now.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Gold Finds Bargain Buyers in China, Silver Rallies After 10% Plunge on US Margin-Hike / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD AND SILVER recovered early in London on Wednesday following sharp overnight falls sparked by a 30% hike in the margin down-payments required for leveraged traders in US silver futures contracts.
Major-economy government bonds slipped further after the Bank of England forecast above-target inflation throughout 2011, and losses on Irish government bonds pushed 10-year yields to a fresh post-Euro record of 8%.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Silver Futures Market Corruption, Open Letter to JPMorgan and HSBC / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Richard_Daughty
Ted Butler, famous silver analyst and the guy who kept up the pressure about the corruption in the silver futures market for the last 15 years, is in the InvestmentRarities.com newsletter recently talking about silver, and notes dryly that "world silver inventories are at their lowest point in 200 years."