Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

How Serious are China and India About Their Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Eric_McWhinnie

Despite the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 suffering their worst day of the year on Tuesday, precious metals were able to decouple and climb higher. Gold futures for June delivery increased almost $17 to settle at $1,660, while silver gained 16 cents to close at $31.68. Although gold prices declined in March and had the media buzzing once again about a possible bubble, the world continues to be more interested in precious metals than ever before.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Copper Projects Push Forward in Prolific Walker Lane Belt / Commodities / Metals & Mining

By: Chris_Devauld

Perhaps best known as the fault zone that could replace the San Andreas plate boundary if California slips into the Pacific, the Walker Lane Belt also hosts a whole lot of copper. Aligned with the California / Nevada border, the Walker Lane descends across the two states, incorporating the famed Death Valley along with myriad geological features that have attracted scores of miners.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Gold Steady as Italy and Spain Face Higher Borrowing Costs / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Ben_Traynor

DOLLAR prices to buy gold hovered at just under $1660 an ounce during most of Wednesday morning's London trading – up around 1.5% for the week so far – as European stock markets recovered some ground following yesterday's losses, commodities were broadly flat and government bond prices fell.

Gold prices rallied in yesterday's US trading, hitting a high of $1663 per ounce.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Chinese Gold Imports From Hong Kong Rise Nearly 13 Fold, PBOC Likely Buying Dip Again / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: GoldCore

Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,654.00, EUR 1,261.63, and GBP 1,040.25 per ounce. Yesterday's AM fix was USD 1,643.75, EUR 1,255.92 and GBP 1,037.72 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $31.66/oz, €24.08/oz and £19.87/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,591.50/oz, palladium at $636.30/oz and rhodium at $1,350/oz.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The Keystone Oil Pipeline Fallout: Canada Makes Over a Billion New Friends / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Money_Morning

James Baldwin writes: "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." Lao Tzu

You can forget about energy independence for now.

Without Canadian oil it is nothing but the latest American pipe dream.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

JP Morgan Metals Market Manipulation, Blythe Masters Lays an Egg / Commodities / Market Manipulation

By: Rob_Kirby

On April 5, 2012, JPMorganChase commodity executive Blythe Masters appeared on CNBC, and she was questioned whether the bank is manipulating metals markets?

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Surging central bank gold demand adds new dimension to bull market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Michael_J_Kosares

The longer-term trends in gold's supply-demand fundamentals point to a potentially explosive market situation in the years ahead. In short, the supply trend is static to shrinking while global demand trends, particularly from investors and central banks, appear to be in a period of rapid expansion. What's more the political, financial and economic dynamics driving these trends are not likely to undergo any significant reversal anytime soon for reasons explored below.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Gold Remarkable Reversal on Euro Jitters Flight to Safety / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Jesse

There was a remarkable intra-day reversal in gold as stocks slumped hard on fresh European debt jitters of the Italian and Spanish variety.

This divergence was probably a flight to safety, as gold soared but silver lagged.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Gold Moves Higher For No Particular Reason Yet Seen / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Jesse

I am checking various rumours, but so far nothing in the news can explain this remarkable short term rally in gold.

This is a significant divergence from the equity markets. Silver also has lagged a bit.

I would not chase it at this point, although that is easier to say as I did some additional buying earlier today and then went out for a walk and some light reading on the patio. Spring is in the air.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Managing Gold Investors Expectations: Why Gold Should Thrive / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Frank_Holmes

It was a challenging week for gold investors. Although the yellow metal has been on a spectacular 11-year bull run, recent strength in the economy has some thinking gold's heyday is over.

As I often say, investing, like life, is about managing expectations--even throughout gold's decade-long rise, price action over the short term can go both ways. It helps to look at what happens after short-term drops. For example, looking at the past decade of one-day 5 percent declines in gold, you can see that this event is pretty rare. In 2006, gold dropped more than 5 percent in a day only two times. In 2008, there were three such events. Another one occurred at the end of this February.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

A Return to the Gold Standard, or Gold Behind Currencies - Part 1/5 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Julian_DW_Phillips

This is the first part of a five part series on how gold will return to the monetary system globally but not in the form of the defunct Gold Standard.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Demand for Physical Gold Grows as Strike Ends in India / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Ben_Traynor

U.S. DOLLAR gold bullion prices fell as low as $1642 an ounce during Tuesday morning's London trading – though still slightly up on last week's close following Asian session gains – while stock markets fell and commodities were flat as markets digested last Friday's disappointing US jobs data.

"Major support [for gold] comes from the long-term uptrend, which is still intact, currently around $1600," says the latest technical analysis note from bullion bank Scotia Mocatta.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Gold Mining Industry, Never Mistake Intelligence for a Bull Market / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: The_Gold_Report

George Ireland, portfolio manager with Boston-based Geologic Resource Partners, believes in seeing what he invests in and his passport bears witness: 80 countries visited in five years. From Africa to Argentina, from gold to lithium and graphite, he and his team seek out companies with experienced management, promising geology, good infrastructure and strong cash flow. Ireland shares his views on issues facing the mining industry in all corners of the world in this exclusive Gold Report interview.

Monday, April 09, 2012

Gold Prices Set for Further Fall / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: J_W_Jones

In the not-so-distant past arguing that precious metals prices were setup to fall generally elicited a response which was not real pleasant. In fact, during gold's infamous bull market rally on several occasions I called for pullbacks which regardless of the accuracy of my call generated hate mail that seemingly never ended.

Fast forward to the present and hardcore gold bugs remain transfixed on the idea that precious metals must rise. The gold bull market has ended, at least for now and those still holding the bag are looking at large losses from the all time highs set back in 2011.

Monday, April 09, 2012

Gold Stocks Failed Bottom Initiates Start of Capitulation / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne

It was only a week ago we felt the gold stocks had a great chance of putting in a bottom. Monday supported our thesis but after Tuesday's action and Bernanke's jawboning it was apparent that the gold shares were in for a very difficult period. We immediately went long DUST to hedge long positions and trimmed some of our most vulnerable positions. We aren't day traders personally or professionally (in our service) but sometimes you have to be considering the day to day volatility in this sector. Having accounted for the short-term, the next move is to gameplan for a potential major bottom in the sector.

Monday, April 09, 2012

Real Interest Rates, The Key To Reading The Gold Bull / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Submissions

Mark Motive writes: After peaking at $1,780 in late February, gold dropped over $100 in March, finishing the month at $1,662.50.

Whenever there is a big move up or down, we all naturally seek confirmation and reassurance of our investment strategy, which is why investors must use objective measures to evaluate and re-evaluate their positions.

Monday, April 09, 2012

Gold Stocks: Timing Your Next Purchase / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Bob_Kirtley

Gold prices continue to trade in the $1800.00/oz and $1550.00/oz range exhibiting scant regard for the current state of world. The Arab Spring looks set to run and run as the dethronement of each leader creates a power vacuum and the opportunity for one of the many political factions involved to make their move and gain control. The North Koreans are about to launch a long range missile, albeit for peaceful purposes, the news of this action as put the Chinese on red alert. (please excuse the pun) Turkey is now seeing an increase in the influx of refugees at their border with Syria as the carnage continues there, despite the protestations of many nations.

Monday, April 09, 2012

Further Downside Run in Gold and Gold Stocks is Coming! Here's Why / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: Dr_Nu_Yu

The Fed's recent inference that QE3 was not imminent has caused physical gold and silver and the HUI and XAU to breach their downside support lines. These transitions set up the distinct possibility that we could well see $1,500 gold and the HUI and XAU at 400 and 144, respectively! Let me outline my analyses of the current situation and how it might unfold.

Sunday, April 08, 2012

Gold Reality Check / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: Brian_Bloom

For well over a decade GATA has been “ranting” about the evils of the Fed and how the world economy is going to collapse in a heap.

Of course, there is an element of truth in all their arguments but the fact is that the world economy has not collapsed in a heap.

“Oh but it will, it will, trust us, it will.”

Saturday, April 07, 2012

Gold and Silver Price Manipulation - "High Frequency Shearing" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012

By: GoldSilver

In this video with RT Capital Account’s Lauren Lyster, Mike Maloney talks about a mission critical topic for gold and silver investors—manipulation. Governments and central banks around the world manage the action of markets to maintain an illusion of prosperity, but Mike calls gold and silver the “canaries in the coal mine.”