Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Peter Zihlmann: Junior Gold and Silver Mining Stocks a Bargain? / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: The_Gold_Report
What to buy—gold or gold shares? While many argue that bullion is the better investment, Peter Zihlmann of P. Zihlmann Investment Management makes a compelling case for gold shares with a focus on junior miners. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Peter explains how gold shares have actually outperformed the yellow metal at a ratio of 5-to-1 since the start of the bull market.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Positive Enviroment for Agri-Foods Continues to Manifest Itself / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Sufficient time has passed since the joyful bursting of the hedge fund bubble to allow for us to begin to assess what is rising from the ashes, and what will not. We can be fairly confident that what went on before will not be what goes on next. Financial markets rarely repeat the same mistakes immediately. Enough time must pass to allow all to forget the previous transgressions. Technology stocks did not rise again to lead in the last run in the financial markets. Banks and finance companies will not lead in the next. Financial markets will be seeking out new themes. Investors need to dig around, perhaps in the dirt, for the those next sets of investment ideas.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Gold Jumps as U.S. Dollar Falls / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
THE SPOT PRICE of physical gold leapt 1.4% for US investors early Tuesday, unwinding the final third of last week's losses as the US Dollar fell hard on the currency market.
Retouching a one-week high for UK and European buyers – even as the Euro moved back above $1.34 and the British Pound broke its best level in 2009 at $1.51 – the Gold Price rose alongside Asian and London stocks, which added to Monday's sharp gains on Wall Street.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Russia's Gazprom's Revenue Slumps / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: Pravda
The reduction in demand for natural gas turned out for Gazprom to be an almost fivefold profit slump. It can be explained with the reduction of gas consumption in the far and near abroad as well as with the price cut on European long-term contracts and the January transit crisis with Ukraine. The Central Asian plots did their bit too: Gazprom gets the Asian gas three times more expensive now, The Vedomosti newspaper wrote.
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Gold and Silver Falling Despite Bullish Fundementals / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold and silver both fell some 3% last week despite increasingly bullish technicals and fundamentals. Risk appetite remains high as seen in equity markets onward advance in the face of falling earnings and latent risk. Yesterday gold and silver soared as US stock markets opened and eked out strong gains of 1.8% and over 4% respectively, erasing last week’s losses.
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Monday, May 04, 2009
The MOST Important Investment You Can Make! / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Larry Edelson writes: Now, to be sure all my readers know what I consider the most important investment you can make, or will ever make, in addition to reading my column published last Monday on my top three gold mining shares, today I want to make absolutely certain you also own physical gold.
Why? Because no portfolio is safe from today’s whirlwind of events and economic forces without gold.
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Monday, May 04, 2009
New Upleg for Silver SLV ETF? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Increasingly from a technical perspective the mid-April low at 11.64 in the iShares Silver Trust ETF (NYSE: SLV) appears to have ended a correction off of the Feb high at 14.45 and as well as initiated a new upleg that should hurdle a 10-month resistance line at 13.00 on the way to a test and hurdle of 14.45. At this juncture only an inability to hurdle 13.00 followed by a decline that breaks 12.20/15 will compromise the developing upmove.
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Monday, May 04, 2009
Crude Oil, OIH and USO Special Trading Report / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Chris_Vermeulen
The energy sector has been beaten down hard over the past 8 months. Since November it looks like it has been bouncing along the bottom with investors buying on the dips when dividends are high and prices are dirt cheap for many solid companies.
Monday, May 04, 2009
Gold and Silver Analysis and Trading Special Report / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Gold and silver have been making a nice controlled pullback since their high in February. With precious metal prices drifting lower making clean looking waves like these it’s generally a sign of profit taking before another move higher.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Gold and Silver Bearish Trend Continues / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Merv_Burak
Another down week for the precious metals. Neither gold nor silver seem to be able to get any steam behind their moves. Maybe there is still more down side to come. Let’s see if that 200 day moving average will hold.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
ECU, Silver Miner Sitting on Half a Billion Ounces / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Sean Brodrick writes: What if I told you that there was a producing silver miner, sitting on nearly half a billion ounces of silver equivalent, that you could buy for under a buck a share. Would you be interested?
You’d probably have more questions. I had a lot of them when I had a chance to sit down this week with Stephen Altmann, President of ECU Silver (symbol ECU on the TSX in Canada; ECUXF on the pink sheets in the United States). ECU is a Canadian miner hard at work in mineral-rich Durango State in Mexico.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Where to Find the Best Deals in Physical Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: DailyWealth
Jeff Clark writes: When gold breeched $1,000 an ounce this February, the mass media was full of reports of unprecedented coin demand and long wait times for bullion buyers. You couldn't open the paper without seeing a piece about the gold rush.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Out of Whack Silver/Gold Ratio Suggests Strong Bull Move / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: The_Gold_Report
The silver/gold ratio is "out of whack," says Mike Niehuser, founder of Beacon Rock Research, LLC, who finds silver "particularly interesting" right now. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Mike weighs the historical seasonality of gold and silver against the forces at work in today's market and explains why we could see a significant run up in metals by fall.
Friday, May 01, 2009
Natural Gas UNG ETF Gets a Lift / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Mike_Paulenoff
In sympathy with today’s upmove in crude oil, natural gas prices have lifted, too, off of their extremely oversold condition, which also has lifted the U.S. Natural Gas Fund ETF (NYSE: UNG) from yesterday’s Double Bottom low at 12.69 above key near-term resistance at 13.80. Whether or not today’s up-spike is the beginning of a sustainable recovery phase remains to be seen.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Gold Stocks Investing: Producer Categories / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Zeal_LLC
In my tenure as an analyst on the gold stock circuit, I’ve been blessed to have experienced some pretty neat things that have given me an inside look at the gold mining industry. And by far the most exciting of my adventures have been tours of actual gold mines.
I’ve descended deep into the bowels of the earth to tour a small subterranean mining operation that follows a series of rich gold-bearing veins. I’ve also had a behind-the-scenes tour of a robust open-pit surface operation. Ultimately whether big or small, after going on a mine tour you don’t have to be a gold bug to be in awe of what goes into that shiny gold necklace that Aunt Jenny is wearing.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Silver Investing, Too Little or Too Much? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: David_Morgan
As most readers know, I have been interested in the silver market from a very early age, and this interest has brought me in touch with many interesting people. One group that I have met and have many friends and associates among is the precious metals dealers. In fact, it would be tough for me to estimate how many I know on a first-name basis, so let’s just say many!
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Friday, May 01, 2009
New Bull Market in Stocks NOT Possible / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
WHOLESALE PRICES for physical gold slipped to an eight-session low early in London on Friday, dropping 4.1% from Monday's start before rallying to $885 an ounce as the US Dollar also bounced on the currency markets.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Gold Falls on Increasing Risk Appetite / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold fell 1% yesterday as risk appetite returned with equity markets in Asia and Europe rising prior to a mixed performance on Wall Street.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, May 01, 2009
Gold on the Launch Pad / Commodities / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Guy_Lerner
I love to chronicle my follies with gold. Gold seems so easy. The Federal Reserve runs the printing presses, and everyone in the world knows this is inflationary, and just like that, gold should be off and running. But it isn't.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
PPIP Starts to Stink that's why Gold is R.I.P. / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Andrew_Butter
In Scotland the tradition is three days, in the Middle East it's one day; that's how long it takes for the deceased to start to stink.