Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
What’s in Store for Natural Gas and Crude Oil Prices / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Money_Morning
Kent Moors writes: To hear some analysts tell it, geopolitics and the weather are exogenous events when it comes to energy prices.
That is, somehow both natural gas and crude oil prices would operate quite “rationally” if it weren’t for either of them.
According to these guys, supply and demand is what drives the market, and from time to time these “outside elements” only muddle things up.
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Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Preparing for a Financial Crisis Worse than 2008? / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Metals_Report
Trillions of dollars of debt, a bond bubble on the verge of bursting and economic distortions that make it difficult for investors to know what is going on behind the curtain have created what author Doug Casey calls a crisis economy. But he is not one to be beaten down. He is planning to make the most of this coming financial disaster by buying equities with real value—silver, gold, uranium, even coal. And, in this interview with The Mining Report, he shares his formula for determining which of the 1,500 "so-called mining stocks" on the TSX actually have value.
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Gold Price Seasonality Chart Points to Strong Gains Sept through February / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Jason_Hamlin
The month of September has historically been the strongest for precious metals. Since the start of the current bull market, gold has averaged a gain of 2.6% during the month of September. This is typically followed by a smaller gain of 0.8% in October and then a few more strong months in November, January and February. Taken together, we are exiting the weakest seasonal period for gold (Spring-Summer) and entering into the strongest seasonal period (Fall-Winter).
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Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Why Brent Crude Oil Prices Won’t Fall Below $100 a Barrel / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Submissions
Chad Shoop writes: All the talk about oil these days would lead you to suspect that we are overflowing in abundance, with enough of the black gold lying around the U.S. to significantly reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern and European oil. This happy talk has even sparked discussion of oil independence for Americans — but this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Given the rising cost of producing oil, oil prices won’t fall below $100 a barrel — at least not for any significant length of time.
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
3 Important Gold Charts - Transparent Holdings Fall As Bullion Goes East To Russia and China / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: GoldCore
Nick Laird of www.ShareLynx.com has compiled some great new charts on the transparency of public gold holdings over time. The charts were emailed to us Monday night. Sharelynx.com is one of the internet’s most comprehensive sources for market related charts and is well worth the subscription. The charts are very illuminating and provide great insight into how gold has shifted between non public sources and public sources over the last 10-12 years. Below we reproduce some of Nick’s charts and some GoldCore commentary on the trends that we find most interesting.
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Gold Price - The Thin End of the Wedge / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Bob_Kirtley
Background
Gold had a horrendous year in 2013 disappointing many of its supporters; however, 2014 started brightly bringing with it much hope for an attempt at achieving new record highs. Gold prices moved quickly from the $1200/oz level to flirt with $1400/oz by mid-March. The summer brought some confusion with gold rallying and falling without much in the way of conviction in either direction. As optimists we can argue that the summer doldrums arrived to take the steam out of the market and that better times lie ahead. The pessimists suggest that gold is struggling to gain some traction and will head lower in the near future, so we will take a brief look at some of the factors that affect gold’s movements.
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Why The Debate Over Energy Storage Utterly Misses The Point / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: OilPrice_Com
The debate over which energy storage technology will prove to be the best in the long-term is woefully misguided.Many technologies have been tested in the field or been fully installed, but their real-world applications have created constant questions around a number of fixed themes: the three-points concern cost, technology, and potential environmental impact, as well as the need for specific regulation and end-of-life management.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2014
U.S. Inflation Pressures in Core Food Components / Commodities / Inflation
By: EconMatters
Inflation Isn`t Moderating, It is Consolidating before the Next Leg Up
Inflation numbers of late have been helped by the drop in fuel costs, the agricultural grains have been brought down in the futures market by the overplanting of corn, but eating out for the weekend where shrimp, steak, other seafood and vegetables are consumed at dinner brings home the idea that restaurant costs are only going up on the whole, and expect menu prices to continue to be raised at your favorite restaurant.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Gold and Silver Price A Critical Juncture / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Clive_Maund
Gold and silver are at a critical juncture - either they break down to new lows soon or a major new uptrend is about to start. Which is it? - while we cannot be 100% sure either way, we can certainly attempt to figure which way they are likely to break.
Many have been tempted to conclude, because of the dismal response to date by the Precious Metals to the growing geopolitical tensions in various regions of the world, that this is an indication of intrinsic weakness, and that they are therefore destined to break down soon, but there is another way of looking at it.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Gold and Silver Precious Metals Complex Contradiction and Potential / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Rambus_Chartology
In this report I'd like to look at some of the Precious metals stock indexes as there was a fairly strong reversal off of the previous lows made over the last two months. It was one of those inflection points where the PM stock indexes could have gone either way. It just so happened that they all had a decent bounce off the lows with the last two days being up. We'll examine some of the PM stock indexes in a minute but I would first like to show you the BPGDM as it's still on a buy signal that was generated three weeks ago.
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Gold, Silver Price Summer Doldrums Coming to an End / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Alasdair_Macleod
The pattern of trading in precious metals changed for the better this week. After London's bank holiday on Monday, for the first time in a long time the market opened in London's pre-market with higher prices. This indicated Asian or Middle-Eastern physical demand was returning to the market. Predictably, prices drifted lower during London hours as paper trading took over, and all the gains were more or less lost by close of play on Comex in New York.
Monday, September 01, 2014
Palladium Price Breaks Multi-Year High Over $900 / Commodities / Palladium
By: GoldCore
The palladium price made a new 13 year high today and reached $909/oz, its highest since February 2001. Markets fear that the global supply of palladium could be impacted by the threat of further sanctions against Russia.
Monday, September 01, 2014
Mixed Emotions for the Gold Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: EconMatters
Gold Crosscurrents
The Gold market has a lot of crosscurrents at the moment with the main negative as we write that it doesn`t pay a yield, and given the abundance of cheap money chasing every utility, bond and stock that pays a yield it has lost favor in that regard the last several years.
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Saturday, August 30, 2014
Gold And Silver - Elite's NWO Losing Traction. Expect More War / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Michael_Noonan
The lies and deceit coming from Western governments continue unabated, whether it is [Pollyanna] economic news that is non-reflective of existing reality or more false flag "war" news that is also non-reflective of existing reality. Whether it be Obama, Cameron, or Merkel, supposed leaders of their countries but totally failing to provide leadership, each can best be described as pimps for the banking elites.
Friday, August 29, 2014
The Myth of the Unchanging Value of Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Joseph_T_Salerno
According to mainstream economics textbooks, one of the primary functions of money is to measure the value of goods and services exchanged on the market. A typical statement of this view is given by Frederic Mishkin in his textbook on money and banking. “[M]oney ... is used to measure value in the economy,” he claims. “We measure the value of goods and services in terms of money, just as we measure weight in terms of pounds and distance in terms of miles.”
Friday, August 29, 2014
Gold Miners Consolidate and Hold Support / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2014
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
Precious metals miners have successfully digested their sharp gains from early summer. The miners have continued to hold above key retracements as well as 200-day moving averages that are now sloping up. The miners, despite some fear from market participants remain in position for a September breakout to the upside.
Friday, August 29, 2014
Low Cost Transcontinental Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Zeal_LLC
Back in 2001 Turkey produced less than 50k ounces of gold, an insignificant amount considering the geological potential of this transcontinental country. The prolific Tethyan Metallogenic belt, which covers a large part of it, offers an environment capable of hosting large precious-metals deposits. But strangely even though the ancient Romans found great success tapping this belt, the modern-day miners largely ignored it.
Friday, August 29, 2014
Gold Bullish Central Banks Should Give Money Directly To The People - Helicopter Janet? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: GoldCore
Last week, a very radical proposal appeared in the pages of the influential ‘Foreign Affairs’ magazine, the publication arm of the equally influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) think-tank based in New York.
An article “Print Less but Transfer More - Why Central Banks Should Give Money Directly to the People”, that has been picked up widely in the media argues that given that monetary stimulus measures such as quantitative easing and near zero central bank interest rates have failed to boost economic growth, a new radical monetary approach is needed. That approach is to print currency and give the cash directly to consumers and households as required so as to remedy insufficient consumer spending and in order to prevent recessions.
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Friday, August 29, 2014
HUI Gold Stocks Timing Boxes / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2014
By: Gary_Tanashian
In the previous post about ‘Gold Miners & Inflation’ it was mentioned that the 2013-2014 would-be bottoming grind in HUI has been almost exactly the duration of the 2010-2011 topping grind. Here is a visual to put with that statement.
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Thursday, August 28, 2014
New Technology Could End The Debate Over Pipeline Safety / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: OilPrice_Com
Who could have ever imagined that North America would surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas liquids? A decade ago, that would have seemed laughable.
Yet that’s exactly what has happened; and it’s not just Saudi Arabia that has been left in North America’s dust -- Russia has, too.
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