Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Gold's New Record Highs on BOJ's Buying Assets and Zero Interest Rates / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: GoldCore

Gold rose in all currencies and rose 1% to new record dollar highs (nominal) at $1,327.90/oz this morning. The Bank of Japan pledged to pump more funds into the struggling economy and keep rates "virtually at zero". This surprised markets and given that the Federal Reserve and other central banks look set to soon provide fresh injections of economic stimulus is leading to demand for gold as a store of wealth.

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Jim Rogers Sees Gold Cross $2,000, and My Contrarian View on Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Dian_L_Chu

In an exclusive interview with CNBC on Monday, Oct. 4, Jim Rogers talks about commodities, bond and the currency market.

Commodities to Outshine Stocks and Bonds

Because of the global central banks’ money printing express, Rogers says commodities will outperform equities regardless if the economy recovers or not.  However, not all commodities are created equal, he points out in the case of aluminum, whose price is lagging mostly due to the increased capacity in China.

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Gold and Silver Mining Investment Plays / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: The_Gold_Report

Some people speak softly and suppress their opinions. Newsletter Writer Byron King is not one of those people. "We have to quit screwing around. We have to get back to basics, back to capital investments and making things—important things. Great countries mine metals and minerals," he says. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Byron shares several precious metals companies that are making important things and some juniors that are well on their way.

Monday, October 04, 2010

The Fed Is Selling Paper Gold And Buying Physical Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Rob_Kirby

[the good ole ‘American way’ – through proxies] A couple of weeks ago, I pitched an idea to some associates of mine who are involved in SERIOUS [tonnage] PRECIOUS METALS procurement – physical metal only – let’s just say HUGE money.  I asked them if they would be interested in purchasing an “option” – cash up front - for the exclusive rights [first right of refusal on off-take] of a gold producer [miner] for a set number of ounces for 3 – 5 years “at the market” – using LBMA pricing [a.m. / p.m. fixes] in the future.  The answer I got back from my associates was “show us a terms sheet, we definitely have interest”.

Monday, October 04, 2010

Gold's Big Countdown Vs. the Big Four Fiat Currencies / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Adrian_Ash

Over the last four quarters, the stand-out losers against gold have been the world's top four reserve currencies...

The UPSHOT from last week's London Bullion Market Association conference in Berlin, at least for gold prices, was that there's more sound and fury about bullion in the financial pages than in the dealing rooms right now.

Monday, October 04, 2010

Gold and Silver, It Could Well be a Whole New Ballgame! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Peter_Degraaf

The most recent COT (Commitment of Traders) report (chart courtesy Cotpricecharts.com), shows the ‘net short’ position of commercial gold traders to be at its highest level since December 18th 2009 (purple bar at far right). In the past whenever the number rose to the level of the last three weeks (300,000 see table at left), a correction soon followed. Not so much because of the large number of short positions (because these will eventually have to be covered), but because of the large number of long positions (blue-grey vertical bars), representing gold that is held for the most part by hedge funds. Many of these hedge funds use computer generated trading programs which kick in with a domino effect. Once a few begin to take profits, they all try to exit at the same time.

Monday, October 04, 2010

Gold Slips with Euro as Israel Joins Japan in FX Intervention / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Adrian_Ash

THE PRICE OF GOLD for everyone but Australian and Eurozone investors slipped early Monday in spot gold market trade, briefly dipping below $1314 an ounce as silver prices dipped below $22.00 the ounce.

Western stock markets also fell, while US crude oil contracts edged back from $81.50 per barrel and major-economy government bonds rose.

Monday, October 04, 2010

Silver Up 22% In September / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Howard_Katz

THE BUBBLE IN SILVER

Silver is a friend of mine.
I can play him anytime.
He is outperforming gold.
Exciting story does unfold.

Monday, October 04, 2010

Gold Bubble?...Not By This Fiat Currency Measuring Stick / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Chris_Blasi

Proclaiming a gold bubble has been the mainstream financial media's Pavlovian response to every incremental increase made by the yellow metal since it emerged from a two decade low in 2001. Appreciating an astounding 400%+ in USD's from its bottom, gold has handily outperformed all major asset classes over the past 10 years. Importantly, this achievement was attained without the support of, nay, despite relentless negative coverage by mainstream financial pundits and highly esteemed economic academics.

Monday, October 04, 2010

Silver makes Clear Breakout by Clearing Major Resistance / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Clive_Maund

Two of our three requirements for a major uptrend developing across the Precious Metals sector that were set out in the last Gold and Silver Market updates have now been met - first silver has broken out to clear new highs, then gold broke out above the top line of its potential bearish Rising Wedge - the only condition remaining to be fulfilled is a breakout by the stocks indices - and that may be imminent. The important complication is that both gold and silver are now critically overbought as a result of being in unbroken uptrends for many weeks and we will come to the implications of that shortly.

Monday, October 04, 2010

Gold and Silver Stocks Breakout May Be Imminent / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Clive_Maund

Two of our three requirements for a major uptrend developing across the Precious Metals sector that were set out in the last Gold and Silver Market updates have now been met - first silver has broken out to clear new highs, then gold broke out above the top line of its potential bearish Rising Wedge - the only condition remaining to be fulfilled is a breakout by the stocks indices - and that may be imminent. The important complication is that both gold and silver are now critically overbought as a result of being in unbroken uptrends for many weeks and we will come to the implications of that shortly.

Monday, October 04, 2010

Crude Oil Forecast to Hit $100 By January 2011 / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Dian_L_Chu

Last week the shorts were all lined up for another bearish inventory report for Petroleum products from the EIA, but lo and behold, miracles do actually occur. We had an extremely bullish report (Fig. 1) which caught a lot of traders poorly positioned, and many fund managers underexposed to the commodity, which relative to Gold, Silver, and Copper, smelled like a bargain in the face of further quantitative easing expected by the Federal Reserve in the 4 th quarter.

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Gold Short-term Looks Too Good / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Merv_Burak

Nine weeks of consistent upside action.  It can’t continue for much longer before something gives.  Gold is once more becoming the talk of the town (or the financial columnists).  That by itself is a warning of impending collapse.  What do I think?  See below.

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Colombian Gold and Alder Resources / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Richard_Mills

Colombia is a constitutional republic bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil, to the south by Ecuador and Peru, to the north by the Caribbean Sea (home to 20% of the population and the location of the major port cities of Barranquilla and Cartagena), to the northwest by Panama and to the west by the Pacific Ocean (the principal Pacific port is Buenaventura).

Sunday, October 03, 2010

In Gold We Trust, The Fed Can’t Print It, $1500 Forecast Target / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Przemyslaw_Radomski

We continuously ask friends to send links to stories on gold they encounter in their daily excursions on the Internet. These are people who do not follow the financial markets. We want to get an indication of how many gold stories ordinary folks are bumping into. We were away for a week and upon returning we had almost 200 e-mails in the inbox among them many links to gold stories sent by our diligent friends. Even before zealously tackling the charts and tools, this made us think that the recent run up is not the start of a big runaway rally that would take us to $1,500. A correction is needed first. 

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Gold Eternal Bull Market to Set New Record Highs Eternally / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Pravda

Gold added nearly five percent to its cost on world markets in September setting absolute records almost every day during the month. Even if gold dropped a little on the last day of September due to the growth of the US dollar against world currencies, analysts are certain that the precious metal will continue to set more new records in the future.

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Natural Gas Cheap Against Coal and Gold / Commodities / Natural Gas

By: DailyWealth

Matt Badiali writes: This week, investors closed out their best September since 1939...

The Dow Industrials climbed 7.7%... gold and silver soared to multi-decade highs... and commodities in general had their best September since 1956.

Saturday, October 02, 2010

Gold Homes in On $1333 Minimum Forecast for 2010, Silver's Leveraged Breakout / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Nadeem_Walayat

This week the Gold price blasted through $1300 resistance to close at £1319 on Friday with most other commodities either leading or lagging Gold's bull run such as crude oil soaring during the week to close up more than 7% at $81.61.

Saturday, October 02, 2010

China Flexes It’s Rare Earth Muscles / Commodities / Metals & Mining

By: Anthony_David

The stakes of the recent dispute between China and Japan over the Japanese detention of a Chinese fishing trawler has reached a head with China blocking the export of precious rare earth metals to Japan. No official announcement has, however, been released and the Chinese Commerce Ministry has strongly denied the imposition of such an embargo. Any official ban on exports would allow Japan to complain to the World Trade Organization (WTO) but with no official Chinese statement and only the reported prevention of ships being loaded, there’s little room for Japan to react. Japan has not received any official communication about a ban either.

Friday, October 01, 2010

Where Are Crude Oil and Natural Gas Prices Heading Next? / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Marin_Katusa

Marin Katusa, Chief Energy Strategist, Casey Research writes: Oil is heading to US$200 per barrel. This isn’t speculation but hard fact. But forewarned is forearmed, and with this price expected within the next five years, investors have plenty of time to position themselves.

We recently have been talking about tools that investors can use to navigate the economic landscape. The gold-to-oil ratio is one such tool, but another popular compass is the oil-to-natural gas ratio.