Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Which is Bullish for Gold, U.S. Dollars Rally or Silvers Big Fall? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Przemyslaw_Radomski

Two weeks ago, we've posted an essay in which we've analyzed i.a. the Euro Index. We've stressed that a slight move lower may be seen in the short-term, which will likely be coupled with a corresponding move higher in the USD Index. This is precisely what we have just witnessed, so without further introduction, we will let you know how low can it take the Euro Index and how big rally could we see in the USD Index. In the latter part of the essay we will provide you with our very-long-term silver chart.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Gold Best Investement as Global Financial System is Heading South / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: The_Gold_Report

Midas Letter Editor James West is one of the sharpest minds in the gold business, and he puts his money where his mouth is. He owns gold equities, ETFs, coins and even a share of a private Peruvian mine. "Gold is the best investment at this time," he says, a thesis based on the "counterfeiting" of paper currencies and inevitable collapse of the global financial system. In this Gold Report exclusive, James suggests several ways to profit along the way.

The Gold Report: James, in a recent issue of the Midas Letter you said, "The world, according to gold, is in an absolute mess." We're not in a gold price mania, so how can the world be in an "absolute mess?"

Friday, August 13, 2010

Climb in UltraShort DJ-UBS Crude Oil ETF / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Mike_Paulenoff

From a near-term perspective, the August advance in the UltraShort DJ-UBS Crude Oil ProShares (NYSE: SCO) has climbed sharply to and actually pierced above its May-August down trendline today at 14.85/90. Perhaps more impressive is that the price structure is consolidating (so far) above the trendline, which is a potentially bullish sign of still more upside directly ahead, that projects to 15.25, and then 16.25/50 thereafter.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Gold Stocks HUI Bull Market Seasonal Analysis / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: Zeal_LLC

Precious-metals stocks really haven’t had a great summer by any means.  After rallying initially in June, they started relentlessly drifting lower in July.  The net result of this lackluster summer trading is a lethargic drift sideways.  Naturally this listlessness has weighed on sentiment among this sector’s traders.

Friday, August 13, 2010

EUA Carbon Emissions Attempts Recovery / Commodities / Commodities Trading

By: Seven_Days_Ahead

After a fresh bull surge in EUA Carbon Emissions in Mar/Apr the subsequent pullback has so far displayed a typical 3-leg structure, with good support recently found from a 76.4% retracement. Bulls must do more to produce a clearer positive picture though.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Investors Keep Gold ans Silver Analysis Simple / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Investmentscore.com

Metals ‘KISS’ Analysis – (Keep It Simple... Umm… Silly) - It is interesting to note just how complex investment advisors and investors can make their market analysis.  When it comes to analyzing the markets we do enjoy “chewing” on a lot of data, but often good old fashioned simplicity and common sense are the most effective strategy.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

If Deflation Wins, What Will Gold Stocks Do? / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: Jeff_Clark

Jeff Clark, Senior Editor, Casey’s Gold & Resource Report writes: The talk of a possible double dip is now common banter on TV investment programs. And indeed, deflationary forces seem to have the stronger grip right now than inflationary ones. So if deflation is the next reality we have to face, what happens to our favorite stock investments?

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Why Investors Must Buy Gold … Before it Runs Away in Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Money_Morning

Peter D. Schiff writes: As gold hovers near $1,200 an ounce and pundits speculate about a "gold bubble," it's important for investors to remember that a mere decade ago the picture was very different.

In the year 2000, gold sat at an unimpressive annual average of $279 an ounce - a two-decade low. At that time, most analysts thought gold was finished as a monetary metal. They said its price would never recover and only kooks with tin hats would invest in it. I was one of the very few financial commentators publicly saying that gold was not only viable, but entering a long-term uptrend.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Hard Assets Investing, the Best Way to Buy Commodities / Commodities / Metals & Mining

By: The_Gold_Report

Is there magic in all those hats that Forbes & Manhattan Founder and CEO Stan Bharti wears? The financier who has seeded, nurtured, supported and guided dozens of junior resource companies to the pinnacle discusses his formula—and a few of his favorites—in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report. With hard assets in favor these days, Stan believes the best you can buy are commodities—they're "real, fundamental. . .something you can touch and feel."

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Why 40% Silver is Usually Best Left to Refiners / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis

There are a myriad of investing options for those looking for physical allocations of silver.  Among them are silver bars, silver coins, and junk coins.  Junk coins, most well known for having 90% silver (pre-1964 dimes, for example), can also have 40% silver content (think old Kennedy Halves and Eisenhower dollars).

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Money, Inflation, Fear, and Industry: The Basis for Capital Gains in Gold and Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis

There are four major pieces to the ebb and flow of precious metals prices.  All of them are as interrelated as much as they aren't, and all of them are equally important in the current prices of any precious metal.   Let’s dissect the four pieces and explain the role each plays in today's market price.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Gold Consolidates Near $1,200 as Economic Concerns Grow / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: GoldCore

Gold rose yesterday in the intermediate aftermath of the worse than expected US trade deficit figures ($49.9 billion - exports down 1.3%; imports down 3%). Gold has maintained those gains despite weakness in equity markets and in US futures.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Chinese Renewable Energy Investing, The Green Dragon / Commodities / Renewable Energy

By: Tony_Sagami

When it comes to green energy, China has become the global leader. Here’s the latest example: Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build new highways, widen existing roads, dig subway tunnels, or construct expensive bridges, a clever Chinese company has developed a new futuristic bus design that could forever change public transportation.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

An 'Early Warning System' For Gasoline Price Forecasting / Commodities / Gas - Petrol

By: Money_Morning

Kent Moors writes: What started out as a routine fill-up at the service station that I frequent has turned into a solid gasoline-price-forecasting model that should spotlight the most-imminent profit opportunities.

Of course, it wouldn't have happened without Sam.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The Two Front War On Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Gary_North

Politics makes strange bedfellows. In the person of Ben Bernanke, three streams of American politics have come together: Progressivism, Populism, and Populism's replacement, right-wing crackpot monetary theory.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

China Enters the Gold Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Richard_Daughty

There was an editorial power struggle at Mogambo News Service over whether it was Big, Big News (BBN) or if it was Big Freaking News (BFN), or even if it was The Biggest Freaking News Of Your Life (TBFNOYL) that China has, officially through the People's Bank of China, said that they have "seen the light" as concerns gold, and they see how gold is the only true money, and how worthless paper monies and computer blip monies are the Wrong Way To Go (WWTO), as evidenced by the Chinese merely looking at us Americans and what happened! Hahaha!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Gold, GLD ETF Pivots Off Pullback / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Mike_Paulenoff

The SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) is up about 1% from the intraday low prior to the FOMC statement, but more importantly from my technical perspective the price structure appears to have pivoted from a pullback into the start of a new upleg. If accurate this argues for upside acceleration that hurdles near term resistance at 119.00/10, on the way to a revisit of the June highs at 123.50.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Stocks or Gold, What's Real? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Steve_Betts

"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. " - "The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages." --- William Leahy, Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman -  I Was There, pg. 441.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Can the Gold Price Rise If the Jewelry Market is Weak? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Julian_DW_Phillips

Gold is still only $50 away from its record levels. The Fed is going back into Quantitative Easing because the "L" shaped recovery is threatening to turn into a double-dip recession. U.S. consumers are saving 6.4% of their income, before they saved only 1 to 2 %. Money velocity is threatening to slow, money supply is shrinking and deflation looming on the horizon. All of this points to a weak U.S. gold jewelry market. In the rest of the developed world the picture is nearly the same, so it is reasonable to expect world jewelry demand to be weak? With gold demand accounting to roughly 60% of total gold demand in the past, can the gold price rise if the gold jewelry market is weak?

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Is Gold Crash Proof This Time Around? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010

By: Graham_Summers

I’ve been receiving quite a few emails regarding the topic of Gold and how it will perform if another Crash hits. The following are my thoughts on this matter.

The first thing that needs to be said is that IF we have another systemic meltdown like that of Autumn 2008, Gold will likely go down along with everything else. There are simply too many big players (hedge funds, investment banks, etc) with heavy exposure to Gold who would be forced to liquidate their positions during a systemic collapse.