Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, November 01, 2010
China's Diversification Plans and QE2 See Gold Remain Robust / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold and silver rose in all currencies as markets opened in Asia, prior to giving up those early gains. However, in trading in London this morning both precious metals have risen and are higher as the dollar has come under pressure again. Equity markets are mixed in Europe despite most Asian markets closing positively - except for the Nikkei which fell 0.52%.
Monday, November 01, 2010
David Morgan Explains Why Silver Has Broken Out and Catching Up and Where It Goes Next / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: David_Morgan
Daily Bell: David, welcome back and thank you for sitting down with us today. Remind us about the difference between silver and gold both as precious metals and money metals.
David Morgan: "The major monetary metal in history is silver, not gold." – Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman in an interview with James Blanchard at the New Orleans Investment Conference. November 7, 1993. The above quote is fact of monetary history but few in the West study or know silver's history. Yes, gold is money but silver has been used as money more often, in more places, by more people than gold ever has.
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Monday, November 01, 2010
Gold, Oil, SPX Trading Around the U.S. Mid-term Election / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
This week we have a major wild card (Election) happening on Tuesday. Most of you know I don’t get involved with political discussion for several reasons... one of them being that I am Canadian “an outsider” looking in.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Mining Stock Investors Are About to Get Clobbered / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: DailyWealth
Matt Badiali writes: Oh boy... the crowd is about to get killed in resource stocks again.
And this time, the Grim Reaper comes in the form of "rare earth element" stocks...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Silver Breakout to New Highs or Trading Range? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Clive_Maund
We saw a strong rally by silver on Friday that took it to a new closing high, although it did not get above earlier intraday highs. As we can see on our 6-month chart silver did just manage to stay above its uptrend line on the recent reaction, which gives it a chance short-term to break out to new highs, although given the outlook for gold it looks more likely that it will back and fill for a while between the lows of about a week ago and its recent new highs. The development of such a trading range would involve failure of the uptrend shown, which should not lead to the price dropping below the low of about a week ago, although there would be some chance of the price later dropping back towards the rising 50-day moving average.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Gold and Silver Correct From Extremely Overbought Levels, But Too Early for a New Upleg / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Clive_Maund
Gold and silver at last staged the expected correction necessary to unwind the extremely overbought condition that had persisted for weeks. Once the correction started we had figured it would take gold down to about $1300, probably with a 3-wave movement, and although it did drop to about $1316 at its lowest point intraday, the bullish action late last week makes a return to the $1300 area much less likely.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Cash Sitting on the Sideline Will Find Its Way to Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
Robert Parker is a well known investment expert, Senior Advisor at Credit Suisse and a frequent television commentator. So when we had a chance to hear him give a presentation to an exclusive group of the bank’s heavy weight clients in an invitation-only event, we were interested to hear what he had to say. Or more to the point, we wanted to know what the bank’s wealthiest clients are hearing.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Gold Divorces from the U.S. Dollar / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Barry_M_Ferguson
Nobody knows nothing. The data, cooked and contrived as it is, gives no definitive answer. The bulls think the economy is mending but ever so slowly. The bears think the economy is taking on water and bound to sink like the Titanic. Investors are clueless and there is an election a few days away. Bernanke described the current conditions very well with his ‘unusual uncertainty’ reference a few months ago. We are all guessing. Which way is Bernanke guessing?
Saturday, October 30, 2010
The Fed's Secret Gold Swap Arrangements / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Global_Research
Chris Powell writes: The precious metals markets have tremendous potential for investors. But they are also wrapped up in great mystery – deliberately so.
Gold is the worst understood financial market. Most official data about gold is actually disinformation.
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
Why Producers Aren’t Hedging Natural Gas / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Keith_Schaefer
Taking Their Chances in the Spot Market…LaterNatural gas prices in Canada are so low that end users are now trying to seduce producers to hedge, so they can lock in longer term low prices. But few producers are keen to lock in long term losses.
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
Gold and Silver Update, Is US Debt a Recipe for Economic Disaster? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Rosanne_Lim
The United States has dug the biggest economic hole in human history. It has become so severe that if you listen carefully, you’ll hear the Chinese – the biggest holders of American debt, wondering if they’ll ever get their money back. The foundation of the US dollar is already under threat. If it does collapse, it will take down other economies and currencies down with it.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
African Junior Gold Mining Takeouts on the Menu / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: The_Gold_Report
Clarus Securities Analyst Nana Sangmuah was born in Ghana, West Africa—a growing hot spot for gold exploration. He believes several gold juniors operating in West Africa are prime takeover targets and expects merger and acquisition (M&A) activity to heat up as the major gold producers seek to replenish their diminishing project pipelines. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Nana reveals a few juniors on both sides of the Atlantic that could fall prey to larger predators.
The Gold Report: Nana, tell us about your coverage sector.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Gold Price Add 12 Zeroes / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
Where Volcker wrung inflation out of the system, Bernanke is wringing cash-savers' necks...
AS WE NEVER TIRE of boring anyone who'll listen, it's not inflation alone that makes gold prices rise. If it were, the last decade's four-fold rise would be missing, and gold wouldn't have dropped by three-quarters during the 1980s and '90s.
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
The Coming Nuclear Financial Bubble and Asset Boom / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Andrew_McKillop
The coming nuclear financial disaster in fact has many previous models - stretching back to
several speculative investment surges, then panics in the 19thC, and similar recurring "bourse
panics" in the 20thC. The most recent financial boom-bust offering a likely or potential scenario
for the nuclear financial disaster of the 2011-2020 period, is the US subprime crash, which became
inevitable by the years 2005-2006.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Debt Bubbles and the Commodities Bull Market / Commodities / Liquidity Bubble
By: Frank_Holmes
The “World’s Greatest Investment Event,” the 2010 New Orleans Investment Conference kicked off on Wednesday as gold and natural resources investors descended on the Crescent City for answers to today’s market questions.
The list of speakers for this year’s conference reads like a who’s who of the natural resources and commodity world—Dr. Marc Faber, Newt Gingrich, Dennis Gartman, Dick Armey, Peter Schiff and others.
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Gold and the Horrible Implications of QE, November 3rd Judgement Day for Keynesian Economics / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Some market participants may be treating 3 November, next Wednesday, as if it will just be another day. However, that day will reveal the results of the U.S. election, and may be the first day of a new era. For the first time in 78 years U.S. voters may, one, declare Keynesian economics a complete and utter failure, and, two, repudiate further mismanagement of the U.S. economy by Keynesian ideologues. Should that happen, some cause for celebration may be in order.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Gold Mining Stocks Mergers and Aquisitions / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Zeal_LLC
If you are at all attuned to the gold-stock sector, you’ve likely noticed a pickup in activity on the deal-making front this year. And indeed the gold miners are doing some moving and shaking. In fact, this industry is undergoing a consolidation unlike anything we’ve seen in this entire bull market. And for a variety of reasons, this may only be just the beginning.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Fraudulent Silver Price Manipulation / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
Since we received reports from the CFTC that market players have made "repeated" and "fraudulent efforts to persuade and deviously control" silver prices, we have heard that HSBC Holdings Plc and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are facing an investor's lawsuit of placing "spoof" trading orders to manipulate silver futures and options prices in violation of U.S. antitrust law. The investor, Peter Laskaris, alleges that starting in March 2008, the banks colluded to suppress silver futures so that call options, or the right to buy, would decline, and put options for the right to sell would increase, according to the complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Manhattan. The collusion was also intended to maintain prices at levels at which some options would expire as worthless.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Gold and Silver Jump as GDP Data Reveal US Inflation Rise, Economists Urge QE / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD rose sharply at the start of New York trade on Friday, jumping 1.2% from an earlier low in London to hit $1352 per ounce – some 1.8% higher from last week's finish – as new data showed weaker-than-expected US economic growth, with much stronger-than-forecast price inflation.
World stock markets had already sagged before the Commerce Dept. said GDP expanded by 2.0% annually between July and Sept.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Energy Bargains Ripe for the Plucking, Higher Oil Prices Dead Ahead / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Sean_Brodrick
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll get right to the point: The future of the western world rests on your shoulders. Oil is the lifeblood of civilization, and we are dependent on foreign sources for oil more than ever before.
More than that, many of our foreign oil suppliers hate us. The four biggest reserves of oil in the world belong to Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iran and Iraq. If you were putting together a Facebook page for North America, none of those characters would friend us.
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