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Monday, March 23, 2009

Gold, GLD ETF Prices Holding Up Well / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Mike_Paulenoff

Of all the markets I am watching, the one that pops out at me here is the SPDR Gold Trust ETF (NYSE: GLD) because the price structure has not relinquished much if any of its wild upmove off of last Wednesday's Fed announcement (about buying longer-dated Treasury paper). Even this morning, amidst the announcement by Treasury that a plan is in place to quarantine, price and hopefully profit from the toxic assets, which should be considered a very “market stabilizing event,” gold prices are holding up well.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Gold Bubble Brewing as Washington Funds Mortgage Bond Rescue Worth $1 Trillion / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Adrian_Ash

THE SPOT PRICE of physical gold moved in a 1% range against all major currencies Monday morning, bouncing off a low of $946 an ounce as the Dollar rose vs. the Euro and Wall Street stocks jumped on a new rescue plan for US banks.

Announcing its new "Public Private Partnership Investment Program" – and aiming to remove $1 trillion of toxic investments from US bank balance sheets – the Treasury said it will split the purchase of what it calls "legacy assets" with hedge funds and other leveraged speculators.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Historic Week for Gold as Fed Opts to Buy Toxic Securities Including Government Bonds / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Mark_OByrne

It was a historic week, with the Federal Reserve opting for the “nuclear option” of money creation on a trillion dollar scale. Gold and silver rose 2.7% and 4.5% respectively. The gains would have been much more but for an unusual and unexplained very sharp selloff in the precious metals immediately prior to the Federal Reserve’s dramatic and historic emergency announcement. Read full article... Read full article...

 

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Monday, March 23, 2009

How to Catch the Next Gold Bull Market / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Chris_Vermeulen

The next gold bull market could be just around the corner and with thought in mind; it has many traders and investors on edge, because they are worried they could get left behind. In the past few months, gold has been extremely volatile, making it difficult to hold a position for those of us who think gold could push much higher still.

We all know the market is moved by greed and fear and making decisions based on greed and fear, 9 times out of 10, leads to a bad decision, AKA a losing trade.  Below is a simple strategy to average into gold, so that you will catch the next gold bull market.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Silver Powerful Rally Reaches Strong Resistance Area / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Clive_Maund

We saw very bullish action in silver last week, although unlike gold, it has alot of resistance to contend with on the way up. On the 6-month chart we can see how silver plunged in the early trade on Wednesday to briefly touch a zone of strong support at and beneath its major uptrend channel support line, only to rally strongly later in the day on the Fed news to close up and near to the day's high, leaving behind a strong bullish hammer on the chart. This was followed by a strong up day that broke silver decisively out of the downtrend it had been in from mid - late February. It rose again on Friday and is now looking in need of a brief rest, although if the dollar picks up again on the downside, as look likely, it will simply continue higher.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Gold Breaks to the Upside Following Confusing Manipulated Price Action / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Merv_Burak

We've had a couple of very interesting days in the gold market this past week but in the end the up side prevailed. I'm not sure if gold is being manipulated or if the major speculators who have the money to move prices are just confused and don't know which way to go. I'll just stick to the market action.

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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Barry Allan: Which Way Will You Make Your Play in Gold? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: The_Gold_Report

Consistently ranked as one of the top-10 gold and precious metals mining analysts in Canada, Capital Research's Senior Vice President and Director Barry Allan offers a well-rounded perspective on the mining sector that combines geological fieldwork, equity research and finance. Now, after more than 16 years in the industry, he remains bullish on both gold and silver. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Barry discusses his criteria for evaluating major and junior miners, explains how value price moves in gold are more driven by investors than jewelry demand and offers some risk-based guidelines for investors looking to preserve and build wealth in gold.

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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Russian Oil Giants Absent from World’s 10 Biggest Oil Companies / Commodities / Oil Companies

By: Pravda

Energy Intelligence Group published the list of world's 50 largest oil companies. The companies of such little-known countries as Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan were included in the top 50 for the first time ever. Russian oil giants were not listed in the top ten.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Gauging the Turn in Dollar, Gold & Crude Oil / Commodities / Financial Markets 2009

By: Ashraf_Laidi

The FOMC announcement of March 18, December 16 and September 16 each produced an interventionist surprise at the expense of the dollar. But unlike in the announcements of Sep 16 (AIG bailout) and Dec 16 (Fed's surprising zero interest rate announcement), Wednesday's announcement to buy long term treasuries and expand the purchase of MBS and Agency securities may continue to extend the dollar's retreat, beyond just a few days.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Silver: Why Is There a Coin Shortage? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: David_Morgan

While recently attending the Orlando Money Show and as one of the few who were advocating real money, if you know what I mean, the topic of the silver and gold shortage was discussed, as you'll see in the attached video link. Before viewing it, keep in mind a few points:

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Impressive Relative Strength for Commodity Index DBC ETF / Commodities / CRB Index

By: Mike_Paulenoff

The PowerShares DB Commodity Index ETF (AMEX: DBC) is exhibiting impressive relative strength this morning after two powerful up-days. Let’s notice so far this morning that the price range fits inside of yesterday’s high at 21.03, which if hurdled should trigger upside acceleration to 21.40/60 next. If such a move unfolds, the DBC will be on its way to a 20% upmove so far this month of March – in the aftermath of its 60+% decline since July 2009. My intermediate-term work points to a target zone of 24.80-25.30 prior to the conclusion of this leg of a multi-month recovery period.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Gold New Upleg as Lunatic Fed Creates $1 Trillion Dollars Out of Thin Air / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Zeal_LLC

After gold's breathtaking $38 surge in 15 minutes Wednesday, there is much renewed interest in the Ancient Metal of Kings. The Federal Reserve, which is clearly being run by lunatics, publicly announced it is going to create over a trillion dollars out of thin air to monetize US debt. This degree of pure monetary inflation is utterly unprecedented.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Frightened Investors Drive Gold to Four Week High  / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Adrian_Ash

THE SPOT PRICE OF GOLD fell hard in early London trade Friday, losing almost 2% from new one-month highs hit overnight at $966 an ounce.

The Spot Gold Price held near its best weekly finish vs. the US Dollar since Feb. 20, however.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Gold Soars by 8% as Fed Shocks Market Announcement of U.S. Dollar Debasement / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Mark_Obyrne

Gold surged 8% yesterday (as is the norm the far smaller market that is silver surged by even more and was up by 13.3%) as the shock Federal Reserve announcement led to concerns regarding the dollar and of the inflationary implications of massive money printing and debasement of the currency.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

How to Profit From the Gold Price Inflation / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Money_Morning

Martin Hutchinson writes: I have written a number of times in the last few months that gold and mining shares look attractive. While the metal had a big run-up in price during the three-month stretch that ended in late February, the yellow metal has subsequently dropped back a bit, as have the prices of the leading mining shares. If anything, however, the reasons for gold bullishness have intensified.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Central Banks are Buying Gold for their Reserves Now! / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Julian_DW_Phillips

It is clear now that central banks are buying gold for their reserves. Here is a brief history leading to today and the present position of central banks as they turn to buying gold.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Gold to Soar as the U.S. Dollar and then Treasury Bonds Collapse / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Clive_Maund

You may have heard the old saying that "the Market is the news", and it is true. You don't have to look for explanations regarding yesterday's response by the markets to the Fed's announcement that it will buy $300 billion of Treasuries, you only have to look at the reaction of the markets. The dollar index tanked by nearly 3% - it's biggest drop for over 2 decades. That alone tells you all that you need to know.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

What Gold GLD Needs to Hurdle Over / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Mike_Paulenoff

My near-term work indicates that if the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) can hurdle and sustain above 94.40/50, we should expect upside continuation to 97.00 before a meaningful correction occurs. Conversely, inability to hurdle and sustain 94.40/50 will argue for a pullback that retests yesterday's upside breakout plateau at 92.50/00. Only a break of 91.80 will begin to compromise the still very bullish near-term technical set-up.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Investing in Junior Precious Metal Mining Stocks Using Warrants / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: Dudley_Baker

While warrants have been in the news recently many investors still do not have a clue as to what they are or why they should at least consider including some long-term warrants on companies that they like in their investment portfolio's. It has been over 2 years since we have visited this title and content of this article so we sense it to be very timely.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Fed Destroys the U.S. Dollar, Gold and Euro Soar / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009

By: Adrian_Ash

THE WHOLESALE SPOT PRICE of gold continued to rise for US-Dollar investors early Thursday, hitting $951 an ounce in London as the greenback fell versus all asset classes.

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