Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Agri-Food Stocks Greatly Outperforming the Stock Market Indices / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
We continue to periodically hear, or read, the word commodities flow from the mouths, or the keyboards, of those not very well informed. By now, China was to be in the midst of a massive recession and commodity prices were to be selling for a pittance. Rather, what we learned is that the gurus of the Street really know little or nothing of China or commodities. We wonder how iron ore prices at 18 month highs fit into those forecasts.
Monday, March 01, 2010
U.S. Mint Short on Savvy, not Supply / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Tarek_Saab
At the writing of this article, the first week of March 2010, the United States Mint is once again facing an extended "shortage" on silver American Eagles. Surprising? Hardly. This has become a regular phenomenon.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Gold C-Wave Advance or D-Wave Crash? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Gary_Savage
From the 2001 beginning of the great secular bull market in gold, price has followed a predictable ABCD wave pattern.
This pattern has since played out five times. And on each occasion the C-wave has provided a spectacular performance. Gold’s C-waves of 2002, 2005 and 2007 yielded brisk gains of 18, 61 and 41%, respectively.
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Monday, March 01, 2010
Are we in the Midst of a New Gold Rally? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Miles_Banner
George Soros, the man who made over $1bn by short-selling the sterling pound in 1992, has more than doubled his holding of gold over the past few weeks.
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Monday, March 01, 2010
Save Oil And Save The Planet / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Andrew_McKillop
Anytime that oil prices hit US$ 80 a barrel, alarm bells start ringing, and tried-and-tested slogans
are dusted off, for one more run in the media. In January 2010 oil prices briefly surged past US$ 80
a barrel, prompting US Energy Secretary Chu to add more proof that high-priced oil, if not global
warming is taken seriously by high level national deciders and policy makers. Chu's schizophrenic
concern on high priced oil was underlined by the fact that high oil prices make it a little less
uneconomic to develop the mostly and usually costly new and renewable energy sources his
Department is promoting with fervour.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Global Debt Crisis Signals Gold Stocks Gold Rush Two / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Neil_Charnock
We called it right again at GoldOz at the beginning of February when we called the XGD “Oversold” and it has since reversed and rallied. Gold made its low a few days later too. At the time many analysts were calling for a general market collapse and they have been wrong so far. We had stepped aside warning Gold Members with support levels and charts as this the local gold stock index weakened. This happened unexpectedly at first however we reacted quickly.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Gold Hits New GBP Record, Correlation with Euro Turns Negative / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE WHOLSALE PRICE of physical gold bullion ticked lower Monday lunchtime in London after recording its best Gold Fix in a week for US holders and hitting new all-time highs for UK investors.
European stock markets cut their early gains, while UK and Eurozone government bonds fell.
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Monday, March 01, 2010
How to Profit from the Next Spike in Crude Oil Prices / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Earlier this week, British company Desire PLC (Pink Sheets: DSPMF) began drilling in an offshore block of the Falkland Islands. Immediately, Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner let loose with a howl of rage, and the Summit of Latin American and Caribbean Unity issued a protest against the British company's drilling operations.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Gold Safehaven Against Fiat Currency Debt Orgies / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adam_Brochert
In a world gone mad with paper debt ticket orgies, maintaining the purchasing power of one's savings is difficult. The more debt-based currency entries that are created, the more each existing currency entry is diluted. The lag time and unevenness of the price distortions created by such a bizarre out-of-control monetary system hold the system together, as the sheeple, in aggregate, can't put two and two together. Everyone thought real estate was a great store of wealth a few years ago. Now, not so much.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Euro Attack Sending Gold Lower / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Howard_Katz
Part of the explanation for the Dec.-Jan. decline in gold is the attack on the euro which is now going on in the media. Indeed, the euro topped out very close to the exact day of the top in gold. The market is thinking: decline in euro = rise in dollar = decline in gold.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Gold, Silver, Oil and Stock Index Trading Charts / Commodities / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Three weeks ago on February 5th, we saw an extremely high level of fear in the market with selling vs. buying volume at a 9:1 ratio. We note that in 2009 this extreme level of fear occurred at the bottom of each significant pullback.
Since this panic selling low in February 2010 we have seen stocks and commodities work their way higher, which we expected. Overall the broad market looks as though it’s trying to make a move higher.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Gold, Silver and HUI Forecast Charts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Ronald_Rosen
For gold, HUI, silver, and the U. S. Dollar Index two of the most important components of success are:
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Gold Making Bearish Lower Highs and Lows / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Merv_Burak
The daily gold trading information still does not give me great confidence that a new bull market is ahead. Lower highs and lower lows has been the pattern these past few months and needs to change.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Earthquake in Japanese Commodity Markets / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: OilPrice_Com
There has been some unusual action on the Japanese commodities markets that demands a comment.
I mentioned earlier this week that over the last two weeks the Japanese have revved up several new structured investment products tracking commodities.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Growing Environmental Concerns on U.S. Shale Oil and Gas Projects / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: OilPrice_Com
Texas became the latest state to launch an environmental watchdog for energy development as a nonprofit group set its sights on the Barnett Shale drilling in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Gold and Silver, Correction/ Colsolidation / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Sol_Palha
"See it big, and keep it simple." ~ Wilferd A. Peterson
From high to Low Silver has dropped over 24%. From high to low Gold has so far shed only roughly 12%. Silver also did not take out its 2008 highs when Gold went on to put in a series of new all time highs. This is another massive intra market negative divergence signal and yet another reason to suggest that Gold could correct/consolidate for several months. On a positive note gold has held up remarkably well in the face of a very strong rally from the dollar. If it continues to hold up like this, then when the dollar rally finally fizzles out, one can expect gold to literally explode upwards.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Gold Stock Fractal Dreamin' On the Threshold / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Adam_Brochert
Looking for repetitive patterns, or fractals, in markets is something I enjoy. I know I need another hobby, but knowing what's happened in the past and what is possible based on historical precedents can help one to make speculative decisions and anticipate future movements. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't... Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, February 27, 2010
What Does Silver's Weakness Mean For Precious Metals Investors? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
This week the World Gold Council released their 2009 Gold Demand Trends report and embedded in the statistics were a few tidbits we found interesting.
Overall investment in gold was 7% higher in 2009 than 2008. This is significant when you take into account that demand in the fourth quarter of 2008, during one of the worst financial meltdowns we have ever known, was so great that there were global shortages of physical metal. Nevertheless, in 2009, at a time when fears of a global financial disaster have abated somewhat, investors still bought more gold than in 2008. In other words, more gold was purchased at higher prices when the markets were less terrifying, than when the prices were lower and fear was at its zenith.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Gold, Currency Crisis and Debt-liquidating Depression or a Hyperinflationary Blow-off / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: The_Gold_Report
However the evolving global currency crisis ultimately manifests itself, either total deflation and a debt-liquidating depression or a hyperinflationary blow-off, David Morgan of The Morgan Report says "There's none better than gold—and silver is probably just as good—if you're worried about a crisis hedge." In the interim, David tells us in this exclusive Gold Report interview, the time might be right to build cash and watch the markets. He likes the old adage: when in doubt, stay out. But he also likes finding opportunities in undervalued and overlooked resource equities for speculative investments.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Gold is De-coupling From the Dollar Euro Exchange Rate / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
Further to our piece on the €:$ Exchange rate last issue, we have found that the topic, at last, is hitting mainstream. It is always difficult to be weaned off what you thought was a reliable formula giving you the inside track on the gold price. The oil: gold relationship was a case in point. Many tried to use it as a measure of the next gold price. But in the case of the €:$ exchange rate dictating the direction of gold the consequences of following this line will shortly prove to be very expensive for Traders on COMEX and elsewhere.