
Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
By: Merv_Burak

Other than the sharp drop on Monday it was a quiet week for gold. The volume suggested most traders left the market for the Easter vacation. Next week is another week.
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
By: Clive_Maund

The outlook for silver is viewed as very bullish, with a fine Cup and Handle base now approaching completion, that is shown on the accompanying 1-year silver chart. There are a number of interesting observations that we can make looking at this chart. The first is that once silver broke below what was strong support at the $16 level back last August it went into a severe decline. After initially plunging the rate of decline eased off as it started to form a bowl shaped bottom area that togethor with the recent reaction we can define as a Cup and Handle base.
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
By: Clive_Maund

Why can't folks break the habit of being so pessimistic at market bottoms? Not that we're complaining, if they did that would be one less thing that we'd have to go on. With people writing in to say that gold is going to $800, or $700, things are definitely looking up. Funny that, I don't recall them writing in with these targets when gold touched $1000 in mid-February. Sentiment stinks, which is something that emboldens us. Earlier on, we had been in the pessimistic camp too as the pattern that has formed in gold from mid-January does look like a Head-and-Shoulders top that would project the price down to at least $800, but a confluence of bullish factors suggests that we are very close to a bottom, right now.
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Larry Edelson writes: The Dow has just put in its biggest four-week gain since the bottom of the Depression in 1933, roaring more than 19 percent off its March 9 low.
Natural resources are also plowing higher, with oil leading the way — jumping more than 8 percent in a single day last week. The U.S. dollar, too, is acting as I forecast. It's starting to slide, albeit slowly, back into its long-term downtrend.
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
By: The_Gold_Report
Members of the G20 have announced they will, as necessary, reflate their economies to create liquidity, unfreeze credit and restore global economic growth. But can reflation, whether through fiscal expansion, money printing or “quantitative easing,” be introduced without accompanying inflation? John Katz, analyst, writer and blogger for www.thegoldwatcher.com addresses this question in the following article and asks, “will this all end with a house of cards collapse?”
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Friday, April 10, 2009
By: The_Gold_Report
Amid an "inflationary depression" in the U.S., Peter Schiff, president and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital, sees opportunities in the maelstrom. Facing a massive redistribution of wealth, he advises investors to act quickly and "divest U.S. dollar assets into physical precious metals, other currencies and equities outside the United States." In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, the widely-quoted expert on money, economic theory and international investing discusses what led up to our current "phony economy" and how investors can actually profit from the crisis.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
By: Zeal_LLC
Most analysts believe this deep global recession has abruptly ended the powerful secular commodities bull that was born at the turn of the 21st century. And it is certainly hard to argue this point considering the dismal panic-selling-induced performance of nearly all commodities.
The volatility and fear that took hold of the markets have given traders the mindset that all economic activity has ground to a screeching halt. And the markets have discounted the idea that global economic growth is over, thus warranting the aggressive selling of all assets.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
By: David_Morgan

Ellis Martin, president and CEO of Sol Media International Ltd, created The Opportunity Show in 1999 as a successful terrestrial radio resource for small and mid-cap public companies seeking to vastly expand their shareholder base as they in turn grow their companies. The Opportunity Show airs throughout North America and is currently positioned for expansion into Europe, Australia , and Asia . Prior to that, Mr. Martin served as senior vice president for the Phoenix Media Group in Burbank, California, station manager for WHB-AM in Kansas City, Missouri, instructor/lecturer for the Academy of Radio Broadcasting in Huntington Beach, California, and a variety of broadcasting positions across the U.S. Mr. Martin has been an entrepreneur with interests in media, entertainment, and financial concerns since 1978.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
By: The_Gold_Report

Brent Cook writes: The copper price is on a roll having risen roughly 50% over the past three months to $1.95 lb (Fig.1 below). Unfortunately for analysts and specialists, the fundamentals driving copper pricing are opaque at best and therefore subject to a variety of interpretations and predictions. Here's my take.
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Thursday, April 09, 2009
By: Julian_DW_Phillips

Russia has proposed that the I.M.F. created, synthetic currency [Special Drawing Rights], with changes [Gold backing], be adopted by the world to replace the U.S.$ as the world's prime reserve currency. Both China and Russia proposed new currencies, not so much in the hope that their proposals will be accepted, but bringing to the attention of the world that the $ is losing credibility and not serving the role is should as the world's reserve currency.
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Thursday, April 09, 2009
By: Julian_DW_Phillips

Russia has proposed that the I.M.F. created, synthetic currency [Special Drawing Rights], with changes [Gold backing], be adopted by the world to replace the U.S.$ as the world's prime reserve currency. Both China and Russia proposed new currencies, not so much in the hope that their proposals will be accepted, but bringing to the attention of the world that the $ is losing credibility and not serving the role is should as the world's reserve currency.
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Thursday, April 09, 2009
By: Chris_Vermeulen

This week in gold we have seen prices drop lower creating a lower low. This is generally not a good sign if we want to see higher prices in bullion and gold stocks. That being said, a lot of traders are now starting to short gold because is has filling its gap lower which occurred Monday at the open due to over night commodity prices.
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
"INVESTORS will drive the next leg of this bull market in gold," said Philip Klapwijk, chairman of GFMS, at the London-based research consultancy's
Gold Survey launch in Canary Wharf on Tuesday, "setting a new high above $1,000 in 2009 and with a real possibility of $1,100 per ounce."
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
By: Neil_Charnock

Today I am offering some information on the hidden world outside the mainstream gold trade and investment scene. There is much ignorance and confusion on the subject – scams, victims, criminals, legitimate business and big money. It is an essential trade for many economies and for people that rely on gold sales for their survival. What a great subject – intrigue, scandal, danger, survival, opportunity and excitement!
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes: It's been 30 years since the meltdown of a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant also caused a meltdown in the U.S. commercial nuclear power business.
Even though no one was seriously injured - and only a small amount of radiation leaked into the air above eastern Pennsylvania - the March 28, 1979 accident put the perils and mysterious nature of nuclear energy squarely in the spotlight and cast a pall over the industry from which it never recovered.
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF PHYSICAL GOLD pushed higher as world equities fell early Wednesday, rising above last week's close against both the Euro and British Pound.
Recovering all but $5 of Monday's sharp $30 drop for US investors, the Gold Price then dropped back to $883 an ounce.
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold rose 1.2% yesterday from oversold levels (silver +0.9%) despite stock markets falling, the dollar strengthening and oil falling for a second day. The rally has continued in Asian and early European trading as equities are again under pressure and gold is again receiving a safe haven bid.
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
By: The_Gold_Report

An enviable finance vehicle available only in Canada allows junior miners to "flow-through" their exploration expenses to their Canadian investors. In return, investors enjoy significant tax breaks and ownership in resource stocks. This week, The Gold Report caught up with Ronald J. Wortel, MBA, P.Eng., E.V.P. of mining investments for MineralFields Group, an industry leader in such investments. In this exclusive interview, Ron explains the prospects and profits borne of these mutually beneficial financing arrangements.
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
By: Ned_W_Schmidt

Are investors still looking over their shoulders? Many seem to still being doing so. They are still focused on where the markets have been, rather than where elements of the market might be going. Rather than looking for tomorrow, they are mired in yesterday. Who cares which Western bank remains in trouble? Those market prices of a year ago, inflated by the hedge fund mania, are interesting, but irrelevant.
New sectors and industries, such as Agri-Food, are already arising from the market carnage. Investors should focus on that which will be rather than that which has been.
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
By: James_Quinn

Rohm Emanuel's famous quote regarding the current financial crisis,
"Never let a serious crisis go to waste...it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before." was ignored last summer when oil prices reached $147 a barrel. The Obama administration has taken advantage of the financial crisis to ram through their socialist agenda which will add trillions to the National Debt. It will stimulate unions, bureaucrats, government employees, and defense contractors. It will do nothing to address the looming energy crisis which will sweep over the country shortly. Again, politicians and pundits will be shocked and astonished when oil soars. They will vilify oil companies, OPEC, and the dreaded speculators. They ignore the old fashioned supply and demand equation that even a dimwitted Congressman should be able to comprehend.
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