Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Gold Hits 8-Week High as Stocks Fall / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD rose to an 8-week high Wednesday morning in London, rising 2.2% from yesterday's spike lower as world stock markets continued to slide in thin trade.
"Tuesday was a wild day in the precious complex," says a note from Mitsui's London team, "and perhaps a sign of things to come as the summer months draw to a close.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Gold Demand Increases 36% as Investors Increase Allocations to Bullion / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
US and German government bonds, gold and particularly silver rose in safe haven buying yesterday on growing concerns about the robustness of the US recovery. The two precious metals traded flat in Asian and early European trade but have moved up again this morning as the dollar has weakened. Risk aversion has returned due to the very poor housing data yesterday which suggests a double dip recession is increasingly possible. These concerns are not being helped by renewed jitters in sovereign debt markets on Ireland's downgrade with government bond spreads widening again and the spread between Ireland's and Germany's debt at new records.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Gold, the collapse of Keynesian Economic Dogma and Fed Money Printing / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Keynesian economic dogma continues down a path marked by complete failure. Fundamental belief of this ideology is that government can replace the private economy. Second rule is that government should replace the private sector. Flowing from that change should be a land of economic milk and honey. Except for one little thing, it does not work.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Gold Down For Third Day on Profit Taking, Oil Weakness and Dollar Strength / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold fell marginally yesterday and has fallen for a third day in a row. Gold's hesitation and weakness is likely due to renewed dollar strength, oil weakness and profit taking after gold's recent sharp rally. Market participants will be nervous about another disappointing report on the housing market later today.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
How to Profit From the Russian Wheat Shortage / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Money_Morning
JACK BARNES writes:
Russian wheat farmers have a tough life.
Having grown up on a working farm in Oregon, I understand this all too well. Those days taught me a lot about hard work and patience. Four decades later, as I read news stories about the current travails of Russian wheat farmers, the memories of getting up on wet winter mornings for the pre-dawn goat milking - or having to drive a tractor when I was only six years old - engender a lot of empathy for the difficult challenges the wheat farmers face.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Why Gold Is Not In A Bull Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
What is a 'Bull' market? It is a market in an upward price phase of a market with the expectation that it will be followed by a 'Bear' or downward phase of a market. This mindset is common to all markets. Sayings like, "everything that goes up must come down" is pretty standard and taken as part of life itself, but few examine it to see if it is really true. Why should everything that goes up come down? For some years now gold has been thought of as moving in the opposite direction to the U.S. Dollar.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Economic "Water Torture" Coming to U.S, Bullish for Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: The_Gold_Report
Addicted to Profits Newsletter Writer David Skarica has an addiction that might just benefit you. David is addicted to making himself and his subscribers money. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, David predicts that the U.S. economy will decline very slowly, describing the process as "Chinese water torture." David says any precipitous market drop will be pre-empted by further quantitative easing. And this, he says, will be bullish for gold. He also names some companies that might help folks suffering David's sweet affliction.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Gold Enters Strongest Period as Eurozone Debt Crisis Returns / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD in wholesale dealing held flat Monday morning in London, easing down to $1226 an ounce as European stock markets rose but government bonds and traded commodities were also unchanged.
"The Federal Reserve has begun to play with fire, the effects of which I doubt Bernanke fully appreciates," writes John Hussman of the eponymous $6.3bn asset management group in the US, extending his Strategic Total Return Fund's exposure to precious metals to 10%.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Gold Marginally Lower in USD and Flat in EUR and CHF / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold traded sideways in Asian trade, hovering near last week's close at $1,228/oz. There was a brief spike to $1,231.35/oz in early European trade prior to sharp and determined selling. Gold remained marginally higher until the London AM fix whereupon there was a further wave of selling which took prices down to $1,225.30/oz. Gold is lower in most currencies except the euro and the Swiss franc which are slightly weaker this morning (see Cross Currency Rates).
Monday, August 23, 2010
Invest Now in Natural Gas, Coal and Heating Oil for January Cold Weather / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes: The irony about cold-weather investing is that the biggest profits come to those who position their money during the hottest months of the year - even during the record heatwave Americans have been experiencing this year.
In short, now's the time to start thinking about such winter-related topics as heating bills, and such cold-weather investments as natural gas, heating oil and coal.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Crude Oil Prices Spiral Downwards as Economic Gloom Intensifies / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: OilPrice_Com
Crude oil prices continued their downward spiral during the week as new data confirmed that U.S. economic growth is slowing.The benchmark West Texas Intermediate contract settled 2.6% lower for the week on Friday, at $73.46 a barrel compared to the $75.39 close a week ago, itself a decline of 7% from the previous week.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Gold Autumn In New York / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Howard_Katz
Being gold bug’s lots of fun.
We’ve got the bad guys on the run.
The autumn season does behoove
For price of gold to make its move.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Gold Rally Tracing Bearish Wedge Pattern / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Merv_Burak
Since its bottom in late July gold has been on an almost steady advance, day after day. However, this advance has traced an upward sloping wedge pattern on the charts and this pattern usually suggests a break to the down side ahead. That could come any day now.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Gold Topping and USD Bottoming or Vice Versa? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
This week we have sent out several messages to our Subscribers regarding the current market situation. Now, the markets have calmed down for the weekend, and we are able to provide you with a report summarizing precious metals performance over the whole week, and - to some extent - provide you with our thoughts regarding gold's next move.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
OECD Oil Consumption, Transportation, Emissions, Biofuels and Whiskey / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Dian_L_Chu
A new report released by the Carbon Disclosure Project notes that globally, 98% of transportation runs on fuel made from oil. The transportation sector is responsible for almost 60% of oil consumption in OECD countries.
This heavy dependence on oil has resulted in the transportation sector generating 13% of total global emissions, compared to 26% from the power sector and 14% from agriculture (Fig. 1). And out of all the modes of transportation, road vehicles generate the lion's share of the transportation sector’s total contribution to CO2 emissions --approximately 80% (Fig. 2).
Friday, August 20, 2010
Inflationary Catalysts Pushing Gold Stocks Higher / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: The_Gold_Report
Portfolio Manager Joe Foster calls himself a "stock picker." And he's pretty good at it. Class A shareholders in Van Eck Global's International Investors Gold Fund have seen an average return of almost 25% for 10 straight years under his care. "I'm looking for the gold companies that are going to outperform the indexes, my peers and gold," Joe says. And he shares some of those companies with you, in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Gold Investors Surmounting the Coming Mega Financial and Economic Crises / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“Is gold gearing up for new highs? Rapturous radical bugs say yes.
Wednesday may prove to have been a very important day in gold. Gold broke early in the day, but then the metal reversed, closing higher than Tuesday's high. For technicians, this amounts to an outside reversal.
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Silver Seasonal Big Autumn Rally / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Zeal_LLC
Silver has been drifting in a rather lackluster summer. Ever since surging to $19.50 in mid-May, this often-popular white metal has been grinding sideways to lower. By late July it had fallen over 10% to about $17.50. But despite silver’s recent excitement-bereft sojourn, it actually has excellent potential for a big autumn rally in the coming months.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Investing Strategy and Long-term Potential for Natural Gas / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: The_Energy_Report
Atticus Lowe, chief investment officer with West Coast Asset Management, is the kind of guy you would want making your investment decisions. He is coauthor of The Entrepreneurial Investor: The Art, Science and Business of Value Investing. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Atticus discusses his value investing strategy. He also talks about the long-term potential of natural gas, questions shale gas production projections and offers a few names with oil exposure that he believes are not getting enough love from the markets.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Gold Nears 1% Week-on-Week Gain as Stocks Fall, US Fed "Likely" to Extend Money-Creation / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE GOLD fell $10 an ounce from Thursday's new 7-week high in light wholesale dealing today, nearing the weekend 1% up from last Friday as world stock markets extended their drop.
Government debt prices rose, pushing two-year US yields down to new all-time lows as the Japanese Yen flirted again with a 15-year high to the Dollar.