Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
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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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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Three Ways to Profit From the Oil Market’s “New World Order” / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Investment_U
At the moment, the Gulf of Mexico owns the title of being the largest offshore oil production area in the world.
But not for long.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Silver Bankers May Be Sitting on Huge Derivatives Losses and the Fed May Be Funding Them / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jesse
My question is simple. What are bankers like J.P. Morgan and HSBC doing playing in such size in this market? What is the economic and productive benefit? Perhaps there is a good answer. The taxpaying public certainly deserves to know. The CFTC says they have looked into this, but the detailed results of their findings remain less than forthcoming.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Gold Uptrend Lacks Enthusiasm / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Merv_Burak
Well, it was up, up all week long for gold. However, there seemed not to be any enthusiasm behind the move and trends do not last long without enthusiasm. Maybe it will enter this coming week.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Gold Rally About to Reverse to the Downside Again / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Clive_Maund
Gold and silver have reversed to the upside and advanced substantially exactly as predicted in the last updates posted on 30th January, and now the majority of commentators are raving bullish again, but the internal technical condition of the sector following this rally suggests that it is about to reverse to the downside again, although longer-term the outlook remains strongly bullish.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Silver Showing Amazing Strength / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Clive_Maund
Silver has shown amazing strength in recent weeks, surprising even its staunchest advocates by making light work of recovering the ground lost in the January reaction, and even went as far as to break out to new highs late last week, hugely outperforming gold in the process, which not unnaturally has silver bugs *****-a-hoop. We were looking for a big rally in the last update posted at the end of January and we have not been disappointed.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Gold and Silver Sell Targets / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Below is a picture of a dog. In order to simplify this discussion in such a way those even Silver momentum traders might understand it, we have placed a circle around the approximate location of the dog's brain and a rectangle around the tail. At this point, we should all be together.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Gold Producers Takeovers Talk / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: The_Gold_Report
Michael Fowler is a senior mining analyst with Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon in Toronto and he was more than willing to speculate on potential takeovers in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report. "All of these gold producers are going to be active in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market. They are going to acquire because there's a huge amount of cash on their balance sheets," he says. Michael also talks about some undervalued names in his coverage universe, including one junior he thinks could climb 210% before year-end.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
GOLD RED ALERT: U.S. Government Plans Confiscation of Gold and Silver This Year / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Chris_Kitze
Sherrie writes: I received an email with the words "RED ALERT". I received this from someone heavily involved and an expert in the metals and mining. I highly respect both men involved, as they know and always telling the truth about what is happening in the world of metals.
Friday, February 18, 2011
EGYPT: Placebos, Protests and Gold and Silver Breakouts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jeb_Handwerger
We are constantly being advised that the Egyptian Military has the situation under control. As the situation develops it is becoming increasingly apparent that there is something wrong with this picture. The military and the media assures us that the morganatic wedding between the Generals and the Masses will proceed as scheduled. As the old song goes, "its time to wind up the masquerade...the piper must be paid." Is Iran sailing through the Suez sending a message of who may be trying to gain power during this chaos?
Friday, February 18, 2011
Gold and Silver Rally is Not Over Yet / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
As per the World Gold Council, precious metals demand will stay high this year with growing Indian and Chinese appetite for the yellow metal, but fresh buying in developed markets of jewelry will depend on economic outlook. At this juncture, market news suggests positive momentum for precious metals. Investment and industrial demand are set to witness an upsurge in the upcoming months. Let’s have an outlook on the present status of precious metals market.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Can The Middle East 'Revolutions' Affect The Gold Price? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
When the Tunisian, then the Egyptian revolutions succeeded we were all surprised. Many believed that at last democracy had won in the Middle East. When the King of Jordan changed his government a feeling of contagion set in. Then we heard of riots in Yemen, Libya, Bahrain, Iran and we now look at the entire Middle East as ripe for contagious revolutions.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Gold Bull Market Big Picture, Time for a Rest / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Aden_Forecast
If we had to pinpoint a time during the last 10 years when the gold price broke out into a full on bull market, it was in 2005 when the $500 level was clearly broken. That was a key level at the time and this break out coincided with the launching of gold's ETF, GLD.
It was also clearly a break away from the dollar as gold began jumping up in all currencies. This is when the bull market started heating up and gold never looked back until it surpassed the 1980 record high in 2008.
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Insider Report: U.S. Government Will Confiscate Gold When It Touches $2000 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Mac_Slavo
It’s no secret that the US government is broke, the US dollar is crashing and losing credibility globally, and the IMF, China, France and others have publicly stated their desire to eliminate the dollar as the world’s primary reserve currency. The IMF, for example, recently issued a call to replace the Federal Reserve’s fiat paper, ironically suggesting that it should be replaced with yet another synthetic instrument known as the SDR, or Special Drawing Right.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Silver Hits 31 Year High, Gold Could Easily Break Above $1500 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD slipped from new 5-week highs in lunchtime London trade Friday, easing back from $1388 per ounce as silver edged down from its highest level in 31 years.
Euro and UK stock prices fell, as did government bonds, after a senior European Central Bank member said record-low interests must "be monitored and, if needed, corrected."
Friday, February 18, 2011
Copper Pushing Against Long Term Channel Resistance / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
New uptrend highs in Copper have been seen in 2011 and the next interesting long term resistance has now been reached. We await reaction around here, looking for bull fatigue clues on the Daily chart.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Spare Cash? Park It in Uranium / Commodities / Uranium
By: The_Energy_Report
BMO Capital Markets Mining Analyst Ed Sterck projects a very moderate $60/lb. uranium price in 2011, but that shouldn't stop you from investing in the uranium space. "This is a sector that is very prone to sentiment and, at the moment, the sentiment is building toward the possibility of a price spike," he says. He also expects to see more M&A activity in the sector, particularly among uranium juniors with reasonably priced projects. Read on to find out which companies Ed likes in this exclusive interview with The Energy Report.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Gold and Silver Bullion Bottleneck or Supply Deficit? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jeff_Clark
Jeff Clark, BIG GOLD writes: There have been numerous reports of bullion shortages in many parts around the world, along with rising premiums. And the two explanations - we're running out of gold! and, it's just a manufacturing bottleneck - are at odds with one another. So, who's right?
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Gold Rises, Physical Demand Due to Inflation and Low Interest Rates, Not Middle East Crisis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD continued rising for US investors on Thursday, finishing the day in London at a five-week high of $1383 per ounce as world stock markets held flat and the Dollar slipped on the currency market.
Developed-world government bonds ticked higher, as did crude oil prices, as Libya became the latest Middle Eastern country to see protests against its government on Wednesday, joining Algeria, Iran, Jordan and Morocco, as well as Tunisia and Egypt, which have already seen their long-time regimes fall.