Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, December 09, 2011
Gold Nears Weekend 2% Down as UK Quits New European "Fiscal Compact" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
WHOLESALE MARKET gold prices fell back to this week's low of $1705 per ounce Friday lunchtime in London, as Asian equities closed sharply lower but Eurozone and US equities rallied following news of the "fiscal discipline" being agreed by political leaders meeting in Brussels.
All 17 heads of state in the currency union have agreed to being bound by European Commission approval of their national budgets, with "automatic sanctions" hitting any member whose annual budget deficit exceeds 3% of GDP.
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Friday, December 09, 2011
Euro Fudge Distracts From Global Debt Titanic; Intervention in Gold Market? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Gold is trading at USD 1,719.00, EUR 1,283.70, GBP 1,095.30, CHF 1,582.40, JPY 135,510 and AUD 1,689.0 per ounce.
Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,712.00, GBP 1,094.49, and EUR 1,281.34 per ounce.
Yesterday's AM fix was USD 1,739.00, GBP 1,105.81, and EUR 1,297.28 per ounce.
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Friday, December 09, 2011
Gold Price Forecast 2012: Miners Will Shine as Prices Soar / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: Despite a pullback from its all-time high of about $1,920 an ounce set in September, gold is still trading in the $1,750 range. In fact, the glittering metal has gained 22% in the past 12 months.What's more is that I believe gold prices will eclipse $2,200 an ounce next year, and shoot beyond even $5,000 an ounce after that.
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Friday, December 09, 2011
Gold - The Simple Secular Thesis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adam_Brochert
It's more subtle and sophisticated than "buy Gold and get rich." But in the end, not much. Traders and speculators are always looking for the edge - much like the hares racing the tortoise. But the tortoise method of investing for this secular cycle is important and should comprise a significant portion of one's portfolio regardless of your preferred time horizon when investing and/or speculating/trading. After all, when MF Global can happen in one of the so-called safe haven countries (i.e. the USA), then isn't a component of safety without counter party risk important? Holding paper fiat currency and stuffing it under the mattress requires infinite faith that the apparatchiks and central bankstaz pulling the strings will not fall into the trap of human nature that has plagued every currency, including those backed by Gold, since currencies were first invented. I am speaking of debasement and debauchery.
Friday, December 09, 2011
Small-Cap Energy Stocks to Watch / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: The_Energy_Report
Strong oil prices are paving the way for some outstanding buying opportunities, says Young Capital Management Portfolio Manager Josh Young in this exclusive interview with The Energy Report. He points to four of his favorite undervalued plays, which may not stay below the radar long.
The Energy Report: Can you give us a little update on your current appraisal of the energy markets since we last spoke in July?
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Friday, December 09, 2011
Emerging Bullish Scenario for Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Mike_Paulenoff
It is no coincidence that the next and probably the most highly anticipated Euro-zone Summit is scheduled right in the timeframe for a low in the 5.5 month (122 day) cycle in spot gold prices.
Within a cycle of such length, the bottoming window is 7 days in an imperfect cyclical world, which means that gold already may have bottomed.
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
Buying Silver Is Like Buying Gold At $554 Today / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Hubert_Moolman
I think that buying silver today is like buying gold for $554 an ounce. Let me explain: As I am writing, silver is currently trading at about 65.2% (32.6/50) of its 1980 high. If gold was trading at 65.2% of its 1980 high, it would be trading at $554 (0.652*850).Now, I really like gold, even at today’s price of $1 738, but why should I pay $1 738, if I can get it for $554 by buying silver and then exchanging it for gold when the gold/silver ratio is at an extreme (in favour of silver). The reason for this logic comes from the fundamental relationship between gold and silver as explained in my previous article.
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
Gold Bullion Rises in "Very Thin" Trade as ECB Cuts Interest Rates / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE WHOLESALE gold and silver price both continued to rise in London on Thursday morning, recovering the week's earlier losses despite what dealers called "lethargic", "thin" and "quiet" trade ahead of tomorrow's political summit aimed at rewriting European Union treaties to boost confidence in the Eurozone.
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Mexico a Rising Natural Gas Superstate? / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: OilPrice_Com
Americans looking south of the Rio Grande tend to forget, if they ever knew, that Mexico is, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, now America's second largest source of imports. Of the United States' total crude oil imports averaging 9,033 thousand barrels per day (tbpd), Mexico is the second largest source of imports, at 1,319 tbpd, exceeded only by Canada with 2,666 tbpd.
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
Start Thinking in Terms of Gold Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jeff_Clark
Jeff Clark, Casey Research writes: A young woman - let's call her Andrea - inherited some money from her father in late 1997. She was only nineteen at the time. Not knowing the first thing about investing, she kept the money in stocks and bonds as her father had, wanting to hold on to it until she really needed it. She played it "safe."
She got married last year and so began to withdraw the money. She was pleased to see a chart from the broker that showed her portfolio was up about 20%. While admittedly not a great return over 12 years, her account had nevertheless survived both the 2000 tech crash and the 2008 market meltdown. She knew not all investors could not say the same thing.
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
The Catfish, Your Savings and Japan's Gold Coin Giveaway / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
Don't be greedy, or a giant catfish might force you to spew out your savings...
UNLIKE us – who are so smart today – ancient folk in ancient times used to believe the oddest things about how the world worked.
The Japanese, for instance, long thought that earthquakes were caused by a giant catfish, shuffling and shifting whenever the great god of Kashima forgot to keep his foot on a heavy stone which held the beast down, deep beneath the coast of Honshu. Honoring the Kashima shrine, some 80 miles north-east of what was then Edo (modern-day Tokyo) was therefore a good idea. Because tectonic upheaval, causing death and destruction, was a sign that the god was neglecting his duty.
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
Gold Tsunami on the Cusp of $3,000+? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldRunner
The Gold Tsunami analogy continues, and it goes like this……..
“The Dollar Inflation psychology pulled back out into the sea, taking the price of Gold with it.
Those of a deflation bent ran amok on the naked sea bed for a bit, acting like the Dollar Inflation and Gold Price run was over.
Suddenly, the new wave of paper currency inflation popped up on the horizon last week, and many Dow Stock ‘Crashers’ were mowed down with the early start of the tidal wave of Dollar Inflation and rise in Gold.
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
Gold and Silver Warrants: an Insider’s Insights / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Lorimer_Wilson
With a tsunami of interest in the future prospects of gold and silver mining companies (and their stock prices as a result) I am publishing an updated version of my one-of-a-kind proprietary index of commodity-related companies with long-term warrants (CCWI) and its sub-category of just gold and silver companies with long-term warrants (GSWI). This article gives you some insights into the ‘secret world’ of warrants and slices and dices the make-up of both indices identifying the constituents of each for your edification.
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Will Gold Help Japan Sell Debt? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Eric_McWhinnie
Earlier this week, Standard & Poor’s placed Germany, France and 13 other eurozone nations on negative credit watch, saying “continuing disagreements among European policy makers on how to tackle” the region’s debt crisis risk is damaging their financial stability. Furthermore, S&P warned that the European Financial Stability Facility may lose its top credit rating. “We could lower the long-term credit rating on EFSF by one or two notches if we were to lower the AAA sovereign ratings, which are currently on credit watch, on one or more of EFSF’s guarantor members,” S&P explained. Now, more steps are being considered by the European Central Bank in order to stimulate lending.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
What is Gold's Primary Trend? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jesse
The market maven Richard Russell often speaks about 'the primary trend' in certain assets and markets.
I speak of it as the fundamentals, and also the primary trend.
Someone asked, "What is the primary trend in gold?"
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Gold Rallies, Stocks Fall, ECB Borrowing "Positive for European Liquidity" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ben_Traynor
SPOT MARKET gold prices jumped to $1737 an ounce Wednesday aftetnoon in London, as rumors continued to build of more aggressive monetary stimulus ahead of tomorrow's European Central Bank meeting.
German opposition to proposed changes to the Eurozone's rescue framework also threw doubt on whether this Friday's summit will deliver a significant deal.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Gold Is Crucial Diversification - Hedge Against Monetary and Systemic Risk / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Gold is trading at USD 1,724.70, EUR 1,289.70, GBP 1,099.30, CHF 1,105.5, JPY 134,050 and AUD 1,679.4 per ounce.
Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1731.00, GBP 1108.20, and EUR 1,289.96 per ounce.
Yesterday's AM fix was USD 1,720, GBP 1,098.76, and EUR 1,284.54 per ounce.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
The Age of Rare Earth Metals / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Critical_Metals_Repo
Just as the Bronze Age catapulted human civilization to new levels, so are critical metals changing the way we live in the modern world. Despite weak across-the-board market sentiment, Jacob Securities Analyst Luisa Moreno maintains that rare earths will continue to revolutionize our daily lives. In this Critical Metals Report exclusive, Moreno explains how to pinpoint investment opportunities as new projects inevitably come online.
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Gold Resource Stocks Searching For Direction / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: The_Greedy_Guru
As we approach the end of the year traditional tax loss selling with be evident in many of the resource shares. This has been a terrible year on balance for these companies and it is reasonable to expect more pain as we approach year end.
However, this should be the last move down before this sector takes off to the upside, a move that has been much awaited by most of the analysts and newsletter writers.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Gold FIX Driving the Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
In the last couple of weeks, we've noticed the variance of the gold Fixing price and the open market price. In the past, the two tended to dovetail giving the appearance of synchronicity. But in the last week, open market prices have tried to take the gold price down only to be pulled up by the price established at the London gold Fixing. There is a structural change happening in the market, bringing the relevance of the physical market to a far more important pricing role that it has had before. As with other markets, it is the small amounts of gold sought after in the open markets -to top-up unforeseen needs, as opposed to the amounts directly contracted with suppliers that dictates the gold price. With these alterations, that pattern is beginning to change. Why?