Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Gold and Silver Price Conspiracies Earn Their Weight / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
Investigations into the trading at the COMEX have yet to make headlines, but they could uncover what traders have been seeing for a very long time. The price of gold and silver ebb and flow as part of a malicious attempt to corner the industry and create profitable opportunities for investment banks and hedge funds.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
China Revaluation News Could Spark Short Term Squeeze in Metals / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
News that China is open to revaluing its currency could bring about a short term reduction in the price of precious metals. Ahead of important multi-national conversations about the future of global trade and the world economy, China politicized its monetary policy, hoping to push back criticism that it is a global currency manipulator. Earning the title of a currency manipulator could open an easy door for global political leaders to push tariffs on Chinese manufactured goods, allowing for a trade war that would be most destructive to international economic growth, particularly in China.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Gold Ready for Parabolic Take Off? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Aden_Forecast
GOLDEN TIMES - Gold is amazing. It’s been very strong, hitting record highs last week. Its bullish price action means investors and governments know it’s time to be in safe assets. The result is, gold continues to benefit as the world’s #1 safe haven.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Gold Sits Tight vs. Rising Dollar / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD held tight vs. a rising US Dollar on London's wholesale market early Tuesday, trading back down from $1240 to last night's two-session low of $1232 an ounce.
World stock markets caught up with Wall Street's late fall, and commodity markets also fell.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Gold Gives Up New Record Nominal Highs / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold rose to a new all-time intraday high of $1265.07/oz in early European trading and then gave up its earlier gains in London yesterday. Gold came under concerted selling pressure in New York and fell in the final hours of trade ending near its late session low of $1237.83/oz with a loss of 1.40%. It has range traded in Asian and early European trading today.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
If They Don’t Own Gold, Don’t Trust Their Opinion on Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Justice_Litle
As an asset class, gold stirs the passions. Some folks love it, and others despise it. Be wary of those who will never own gold.
As I write this note to you on Friday, fingers flying over keys like the flickering quotes on my screens, Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly" is playing on my speakers.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The Dow on Gold’s Terms / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Richard_Mills
Central banks money printing is out of control. The constant printing of all the world’s currencies is just another way for countries to default on their debt – the repayment of a creditor occurs using a currency whose purchasing power has been reduced. Gold’s price will continue, has to continue, too rise in value against all depreciating paper currenciesRead full article... Read full article...
Monday, June 21, 2010
North America Doesn't Need China's Rare Earth Metals / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Gold_Report
Everybody's talking about rare earth elements (REEs), but does anyone truly understand them? With nearly 50 years in the industry, independent Metals Consultant Jack Lifton sure does. The educational powerhouse in this burgeoning space returns to The Gold Report with a look toward future trends and a plan to emancipate North America from China's REE monopoly.
Monday, June 21, 2010
How Commodity Charts Are Reacting, or Not, to China Currency News / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Mike_Paulenoff
News that China will re-value its yuan currency is viewed positively, of course, by world markets as it lowers inflation risk and exudes confidence about China’s growth picture.
After an initial higher opening on Monday, what can be expected? The daily chart on the Shanghai is hardly a bullish chart, and in fact went down 3% on Friday. Does the news now invalidate this chart? I don’t know, but to even begin to look exciting, the index has to take out 2600, or 3 1/2% from Friday’s close at 2514, and then faces stiff resistance at around 2800.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Energy Analyst Urges New Approach In Egyptian Offshore Natural Gas Production / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: OilPrice_Com
Although a recent U.S. government survey outlines the rich potential of offshore Egypt's natural gas reserves, the North African country is yet to offer attractive investment terms to companies carrying out broad exploration in deep waters, according to energy analyst Samuel Ciszuk.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, June 21, 2010
Ratio of Gold Price to Stock Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
As anyone that has bought and sold a house in the past few years can attest, value is indeed neither fixed nor necessary reliable. Valuing a house, or any other asset, is as much science as carving up a chicken in the moon light at midnight with precision surgical instruments. The tools, such as present value, are precise mathematical calculations. However, the inputs border on being sorcery.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Finding Gold in the Mainstream / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Frank_Holmes
The New York Times dedicated a chunk of last Sunday’s paper to gold as a mainstream investment. In other words, gold is now legit -- no longer can it be dismissed as the asset of choice for fringe types with a cellar full of canned goods and a stash of bullion buried in the backyard.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Central Banks Diversifying into Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold rose to a new record (nominal) high in early European trading this morning at $1,265/oz. Gold finished last Friday up 2.3% and at a new weekly record high and is looking strong technically with rising moving averages and three consecutive higher weekly closes, and the higher monthly close in May. Given the strong technical and fundamental backdrop and the fact that the move up has been gradual (with gold only up 4% so far in June - see Currency Performance Table below) gold could make further gains and $1,300/oz looks like the next level of resistance.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Gold New High As Investors and Central Banks Scramble for the Ultimate Safe Haven / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF WHOLESALE gold bullion rose to a second all-time high vs. the Dollar in two days overnight Monday, touching $1265 an ounce as world stock markets rose sharply on China's weekend promise to "enhance [the] exchange rate flexibility" of its Yuan.
The AM Gold Fix in London was set at $1259.50 an ounce, some 13% higher for 2010 to date.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Gold Market Charting Characteristics / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Howard_Katz
Each commodity and each economic good has its own characteristics, and before you trade any market seriously, you should stick your toe in the water, so to speak, (meaning to trade at a level you can afford). In this way, you can acquire knowledge of the characteristics of the particular market.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Gold Bubble? What Bubble? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Toby_Connor
We continue to hear pundits describe gold as a bubble. Certainly it will turn into a bubble before this is all over but we are hardly in the bubble stage yet. In order for a bubble to form you need the public to come into an asset class. The public is pretty dim and it can take 15-20 years before they "catch on". It took 18 before they noticed the tech bubble.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Cheap Natural Gas Becomes the Fuel of Choice for Power Stations / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Charles_Maley
I think it’s time to talk about Natural Gas again. A few months ago I wrote on the possibility that Natural gas was nearing a bottom in spite of the record supplies. On April 1st I wrote:
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Gold New All Time High Lacks Momentumn / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Merv_Burak
We’re into new all time highs in gold, inflation non-adjusted. Still the move does not have the momentum (strength) behind it to give us all that enthusiasm one might want to give to the move. Go with the flow but watch out should the flow stop.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Design Considerations for a Shock-Hardened Deepwater Drilling Rig and Plausibility Argument for the Loss of the Deepwater Horizon Drilling Rig / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Dr_Stephen_Rinehart
WWII resulted in many ships (naval surface combatants, subs and commercial tankers) were totally disabled by non-contact underwater explosions and/or air blast loadings (near miss). Also systems on one end of the ship were being knocked-out by a bomb hitting another part of the ship due to the severe shock loadings (think earthquake “g” loads multiplied by an actor of 10X, 50X or 100X). As a result research in underwater explosions was intensified and in Dec 1946, the Underwater Explosions Research Division (UERD) was established by Dr Alfred Keil (the Division’s First Director). Dr Keil came from Wood’s Hole Oceanographic Institute and wrote the classical paper on Underwater Gas Bubble Dynamics (gas bubbles that form underwater from an explosion and can attach themselves to a ship’s hull and cause huge damage or sink the ship. This is why we are using so much dispersant to dilute the huge methane gas bubbles to protect the surface ships such as Discovery Enterprise.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Will Gold Shares Catch Up to the Gold Price? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
Gold share prices have not moved up in line with the gold price, why?
This has shaken quite a few investors, who based on past market moves, expect share prices to move roughly in line with the gold price in the belief that holding gold mining shares will produce the same if not more gains. It's time to look at the 'why' of this.
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