Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Flash Crash Takes a Bite of Natural Gas / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: EconMatters
After infecting the stock market last May and hit the precious metals market, silver in particular, primarily due to raised margin requirement, flash crash has now taken a bite of the natural gas market as well.
Monday, June 13, 2011
The Case Of The Mystery Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Submissions
Lonerangersilver writes:
I would like to share a story with the readers and hear your opinion. It was around 1985 in Northern Mexico before all the drug scandals. The new President of Mexico set to completely change the corruption in the customs authority especially in the US/Mexican border. To this end he entrusted a highly trustworthy and honest economics professor from a northern university (let’s call him Guzman) and put him totally in charge. Guzman then turned to some of his most trusted ex-students to fill the supervisory ranks and they in turn completely cleaned house hiring and training new agents.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Gold Falls, Eurozone Debt Catastrophe And America's Lost Decade / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ben_Traynor
WHOLESALE MARKET gold prices fell Monday morning London time, dropping to $1525 per ounce – 2.3% off last month's record high – while stocks were flat and commodities mixed, as continuing economic worries prompted talk of catastrophe and economic stagnation.
Silver prices meantime dropped to $35.40 per ounce – 2.2% down on Friday's close.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Silver: The Fulcrum of Value / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Submissions
Pat Fields writes: A nonchalant comment I’d posted to a thread on Facebook (1) reflecting on a Zerohedge article (2) relating to bullion bank, Scotia Mocatta’s curious accounting for their silver holdings, sparked a small brush-fire of e-mails among a few folks. Particularly, it was my characterization of silver as having the analogical position of a fulcrum, providing a natural balance to the rational valuations of gold and copper and the further societal effect that this function imparts. Consequently, I received a note to request that I write this article, expanding further on these interconnections.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Great Silver Crash of 2011 May Not Be Over / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
According to the calendar, Summer doldrums should now be taking hold of the financial markets. Perhaps this year, though, those hot day blues might be replaced with greater than normal excitement. We know some interesting events might take place.
First, QE-2 is scheduled to be completed by the end of the month. With no discernable positive effect on the U.S. economy from that program and U.S. Senate wisely blocking the filling of two Board seats at the Federal Reserve, QE-3 seems unlikely.
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
Gold Sideways Trend Suggests Topping Activity / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Merv_Burak
Although it looks as if gold has been moving sideways for the past two weeks a closer look suggests a topping activity. This coming week should tell us if that is so or not. However, any short term reaction should not be a concern as the longer term picture still looks okay for new highs in the not too distant future.
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
Natural Gas to Rule the World of the Future / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Pravda
The consumption of natural gas will be growing during the upcoming two decades. By 2035, the gas consumption will double in comparison with the current year. A report from the International Energy Agency said that the global demand on natural gas in 2035 will make up 5.1 trillion cubic meters vs. the current level of 1.8 trillion cubic meters. China will be the world's largest consumer of this fuel. The Celestial Empire will consume as much gas as the entire European Union does today.
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Andrew_McKillop
Requesting anonymity in return for speaking, senior French financial officials have disclosed their interpretation of why and how Dominique Strauss-Kahn known as "DSK" in France, fell suddenly from world power as head of the IMF. Cited on French blog sites, these officials see nothing less than a threat to world monetary stability and the integrity of the global economy, behind the dramatic sleaze operation that felled the woman-chasing, globetrotting freespender with a B-movie sting in a Manhattan hotel room.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
The Real Gold Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
Each morning you turn to your favorite gold investment website to see the current gold price. What you see is the correct price, but in the currency of your choosing. There are two prices, the buy and sell price. You assume these prices allow the dealer to make an income from the difference. You assume that these prices are an accurate reflection of supply and demand.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Government Attacks on Gold Retailers and Student Loan Debtors / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jeff_Berwick
We have been writing here at The Dollar Vigilante for nearly one year exactly, this coming July 1st, about such things as getting your gold outside of the control of your own government and about how US student loans are an entrapment for, what we believe, will be military conscription.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Why Gold and Silver Are Not in a Bubble / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jeb_Handwerger
Any thoughts of a bubble in precious metals is not pertinent at this time. As long as mining stocks are not in favor then any thoughts of a bubble are not applicable in the current situation. Mining stocks should be soaring in tandem with their brothers in bullion. Such is not the case. Miners are trading far below general market valuation. In past history during a bubble, mining stocks soared to hundreds of dollars a share at the same time as bullion.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
NYMEX Crooks (alleged) Crude Oil Futures Fake Out Scam / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: PhilStockWorld
The CROOKS (allegedly, just indictments so far) at the NYMEX are running a scam and they have NO INTENTION WHATSOEVER of accepting delivery of even 1/10th of the 367M barrels they had as open contracts last week. In fact, Wednesday (June 8) they traded their contracts 454,043 times - isn't that amazing? It's a 123% daily churn rate! Of course, it's easy to churn 454M barrels of crude because the only sucker that ends up paying for all those fees is YOU, the end consumer of crude. All those fees are passed on to you as part of the price of oil. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Prepare for Gold and Silver Profit Opportunities in September / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: The_Gold_Report
As the global economy remains in turmoil, Trader Tracks Editor Roger Wiegand finds ways to avoid the hazards he sees ahead and profit from opportunities in precious metals, commodities, currencies and resource stocks. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Roger shares some names to help investors do the same. And, despite the hype, it isn't all clear sailing for China and the U.S. dollar isn't dead yet.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
HUI Gold Stocks Index Heading for Severe Prolonged Correction / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Ronald_Rosen
In the month of March 2008 the HUI reached a high of 519.68. For the first time since April 2008 the black line of the monthly MACD indicator has bearishly crossed beneath the red line. Each crossing led to a prolonged and severe correction. The current bearish crossing should also result in a severe and perhaps prolonged correction.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Gold and Silver Negative Momentum to Continue? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
Let’s begin today’s discussion with fresh Fed decisions and its implications on capital markets. Ben Bernanke sent a strong signal recently that despite weaker economic data, the US Federal Reserve is not planning to loosen monetary policy. He said that the recovery “appears to be proceeding at a moderate pace”, in other words, no QE3, at least not for now. Wall Street turned south, the 10-year Treasury yield eased back under 3 per cent and gold futures fell. In the last Premium Update before we knew what Bernanke planned to say, we said that it was a good idea to close long speculative positions in gold.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Why Crude Oil Prices Rise / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Andrew_McKillop
One thing is sure: oil prices rise when they are not falling. There is an intermediate case: they stay flat, but that is not a trader-friendly situation, because making money from oil price speculation is only possible when prices change. The more they change, the more dosh can be made from organizing price dips and surges. Consequently, even the quickest glance of Nymex or ICE or Tocom (or any other oil market) prices shows one clear thing: they change.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Gold and Silver Summer Doldrums / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Zeal_LLC
Traders beware, the dreaded precious-metals summer doldrums are now upon us! Summers are barren sentiment wastelands for the entire PM complex. Gold, silver, and the PM stocks tend to grind listlessly sideways to lower, vexing traders who aren’t psychologically prepared to weather this slow season.
A variety of factors drive this phenomenon during the financial-market summers, which run from Memorial Day to Labor Day. The primary one is the same summer psychology that affects all the financial markets, vacation season. Traders flee the markets in droves during these lazy summer months, enjoying the bountiful sunlight, long warm days, and precious family time while their kids are out of school.
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Why Japan Will Turn to Solar Energy Following Fukushima Nuclear Disaster / Commodities / Renewable Energy
By: OilPrice_Com
As the dire news continues to leach out of Fukishima, the silver lining in its nuclear cloud is that renewable energy technologies, despite their daunting start-up costs, are receiving renewed scrutiny.
Make no mistake - given the trillions of dollars invested over the last five decades in nuclear energy, the industry and its lobbyists will not go down without a fight, promoting new, "safe" reactor designs, etc. etc. etc.
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Gold Top Soon Could Fool Bulls / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: David_Banister
First let me start by clarifying I've been a Gold Bull since November 2001 based on Elliott Wave patterns and currency concerns as well. Since that period nearly ten years ago, I have followed and forecasted the patterns in gold and have been amazed at the clearly definable trends both for large moves to the upside as well as corrective patterns.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Gold Flat On Week, Euro Debt "Showdown...Still Bullish For Gold" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ben_Traynor
SPOT MARKET gold prices traded in a tight range around $1542 per ounce Friday morning London time – almost exactly where they started the week – while stocks and commodities fell and US Treasury bonds gained as Eurozone policymakers remained deadlocked over Greece's debt problems.
Silver prices rose to $37.87 – a 4.4% gain on the week – before falling back towards lunchtime in London.