Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Gold, China and the West Take Opposite Approaches to Inflation / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Rosanne_Lim
Precious metals gained on Friday amid the G-20 weekend summit, geopolitical concerns, and inflationary pressures. Gold traded at $1390 per ounce while silver was at $32.65 per ounce. So far, February has been an interesting month for gold. The development in emerging markets, inflationary pressures in the United States and lingering geopolitical worries have all contributed to its rally.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
How To Profit From Copper's Next Wave, Follow The Money / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Richard_Mills
Urbanization is a macro-trend, in 1800 two percent of the global population was urban, by 1950 it was 30%. Today half of all the people in the world live in cities. This is an economic migration - historically poverty rates are 4 times higher in rural than urban areas. The UN projects that by the year 2030 there will be 1.5 billion more people living in cities.
Investing in copper might be the simplest way to profit from the ongoing global urbanization.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Why I'm Buying Silver at $30 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jeff_Clark
Jeff Clark, BIG GOLD writes: The silver price has bounced 27% since January 28, a huge advance for a measly 16 trading days. It's already soared past its 2010 high and was selling for less than $16 this time last year, a double in 12 months. So, is it pricy? Or should we ignore the run-up and keep buying?
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Alternative Energy Investments Are Still at Value Levels / Commodities / Renewable Energy
By: The_Energy_Report
Alternative energy is a catchall axiom referring to any source of power generation and use that can replace fossil fuels, including nuclear, solar, wind and geothermal. Humankind will by necessity adopt renewable energy sources but, like all disruptive ideas, acceptance is preceded by doubt and hesitation, resolution of which comes only after systemic shocks like shortages and rising prices. Jacob Securities Research Director John McIlveen staked out this new economic sector to become one of the first North American analysts to specialize in renewable energy stocks. He believes these industries— particularly geothermal, solar and wind—could present unusual publicly traded opportunities for investors seeking truly unique diversification and significant capital appreciation. John spoke with The Energy Report in this exclusive interview to explain his focus and offer several ideas to round out growth-oriented portfolios.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Jewelry Drives the Gold Love Trade / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Frank_Holmes
This week, the World Gold Council (WGC) confirmed something we’d already suspected: 2010 was a remarkable year for gold. Overall demand grew by 9 percent to reach a 10-year high on increased jewelry demand, strong momentum in key Asian markets and a paradigm shift in the official sector, the WGC says.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Why Are Gold and Silver Breaking Out? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
We have yet to complete two months of 2011 and so far we have already seen several attempted revolutions in Middle Eastern countries, with so far two of them successful. All of them have been unexpected and have caught the world by surprise. We are on the brink of the next successful revolution [Libya] disrupting the oil market and taking prices so high that we are likely to see them negatively impact growth in the developed world.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Gold, Central Banking, Fecks, Lies and Video Tape / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Rob_Kirby
The purpose of this article – it’s an attempt to bring some transparency to what’s really happening in the precious metals complex by underscoring the words and actions of players in the Central Banking community. Attention is drawn to the fact that these elitists lie as a matter of policy but are prone to making simple mistakes like all humans do. Specifically, light is shone on the degree to which these same elitists will go to keep their surreptitious market activities ‘secret’ and their irredeemable fiat currencies viable.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Russian Klondike Gold Rush is on the way / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Pravda
Russia may legalize private gold mining, which was banned in the country during the 1950s. Deputies of the Russian State Duma upheld the initiative, having approved amendments to the law "About Underground Resources" in the first reading. Spokespeople for the Russian regions rich with placer gold, are interested in the amendments.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Silver "Disconnected from Gold" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD and physical silver whipped sharply in London trade on Tuesday, falling hard only to rally as New Zealand's second-biggest city Christchurch was struck by an earthquake and Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi's defiant appearance on state TV led to accusations of "genocide" and "the government killing its people" by his own diplomats in the Unitd States.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Gold Fever in China Sparks Phenomenon Global Demand / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Inflation risk is driving "explosive" buying of physical gold in China, putting the country on a path to becoming the world's number one gold consumer and driving demand for the yellow metal to a 10-year high.
Chinese demand for gold bars and coins reached 180 tons in 2010, up a whopping 70% from 2009, Albert Cheng, the World Gold Council's managing director for the Far East, said at a news conference last Thursday.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Libya Unrest Boosts Crude Oil, Gold and Silver Prices / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Bob_Kirtley
As unrest escalated today in Libya the pressure was felt in the oil world with WTI up $2.17 to $97.50, Brent Crude up $2.26 to $108.00. Gold prices gained $17.50 to close in London at $1406.60/oz, with silver prices adding a huge $1.25 to close at $33.91.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Silver Fractal Analysis Suggests May-June Target of $52-$56 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldRunner
Dollar Inflation remains the driver of the pricing environment for almost everything denominated in U.S. Dollars as long as the Fed continues to monetize debt. The debt monetization creates Dollar Inflation that results in Dollar Devaluation. As the Fed ramps up the QE II that they have announced will end in June, I expect Gold, Silver, and the PM stocks to aggressively rise.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Libya Crisis and Crude Oil Stock Portfolio Positions / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: Richard_Shaw
Many of you may be watching the reports of the revolt in Libya on TV and listening to breathless commentators. Clearly, the situation in the Middle East is changing. But let's balance the TV excitement about oil and Libya with logic and data.
First, whatever government results from the revolts in oil producing countries, they need to sell their oil to support their regimes as much as the rest of the world needs to buy their oil. Therefore, looking past short-term supply disruption concerns, oil wells will not be shut down long-term and oil will continue to flow.
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Silver Buoyed by Growing Industrial Demand / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Mike_Stall
Irrespective of the concerns over financial tightening, talks of a gold bubble and economical weakness, gold marked its tenth straight annual gain in 2010. Not only gold, other members of the precious metal group such as silver and platinum were also up last year. At this juncture, last year’s bull run appears to be running out of steam. However, both technicals and fundamentals indicate improved investment options in precious metals, particularly silver, if you have a long-term investment horizon.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Plastic Bottles to Push Food Prices Even Higher / Commodities / Food Crisis
By: Pravda
Polypropylene, one of the most popular materials used in the production of various packages, has increased in price by 133 percent during the recent two years. Prices on plastic packages continue to grow still, which will eventually affect consumers in a number of industries, including the food sector.
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Silver Jumps 4.7% as Gold Unwinds New Year's Drop / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD broke above $1400 per ounce and the silver price jumped above $33.50 in London trade on Monday, extending last week's strong gains on what a growing number of market professionals call "safe haven buying" amid fresh turmoil in the Middle East.
"A particularly ominous sign for the Dollar is that there's been no safe-haven demand for the [US currency]," says Steven Barrow, chief forex strategist at Standard Bank in London.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Gold and Silver Prices Strengthen as the US Dollar Weakens / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Bob_Kirtley
We kick off with a quick look at the chart for gold and as we can see both the 50dma and the 200dma are moving up nicely in support of gold prices. The recent correction could have taken gold to have tea with the 200dma, however, strong buying came in and pushed the price through resistance in preparation for the next leg up. The technical indicators, the RSI and the STO, are on the high side suggesting that a breather could be on the cards, but don't count on it, indicators can remain distant from the ‘norm’ for extended periods of time.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Clean Energy: Coconuts vs. Swallows of Coal and Natural Gas / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Dian_L_Chu
Bill Willoughby writes: There’s a memorable part in the 1970s movie Monty Python & the Holy Grail where King Arthur argues with a guard on a castle wall about whether a swallow could have carried a coconut to England, the punch line being is that an African or European swallow?
Fact checking about birds aside, the point of the story is if you don’t have the ability to lift a coconut you need to increase capacity by adding more swallows, that or find yourself an African swallow.
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Diverging Crude Oil Prices WTI $12 Cheaper than Brent, Anybody Got A Big Rig? / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Dian_L_Chu
On Wednesday, Feb. 16 Israel said Iran is sending two warships into the Suez Canal on way to Syria, and that the action is considered a “provocation.” Due to the long history of bad blood between Israel and Iran, this very possible scenario was enough to even send the bear-infested NYMEX crude oil futures volume surging midday.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) on Nymex rose to just below $85, while Brent crude on the ICE futures exchange spiked $2.17 higher to $103.81 a barrel--a 29-month high--widening the WTI-Brent spread to a new record near $19.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
China becomes World's Largest Producer of Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Pravda
In 2010, China mined the record amount of gold in the world. The production volume of nonferrous metals in China amounted to 340.88 tons, which is 8.57% higher than a year earlier, and continues to grow. In recent years, China has consistently increased the amount of its gold reserves. Nevertheless, experts believe that China has a long way to go to reach the level of the world leading economies.
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