Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Gold's New Volatility in Pictures / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Adrian_Ash

Three charts showing just how violent the gold price has become...

ONLY 12 MONTHS AGO, the gold price was so placid – quietly making new record highs above $1300 and then $1400 per ounce – that volatility in its daily swings hit the lowest level in half-a-decade.

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Junior Gold Miners Offer Bigger Bang for the Buck than ETFs / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: The_Gold_Report

Despite the recent pullback in metals prices, Amine Bouchentouf still believes that precious metals and mining stocks offer investors the best way to profit from the unfolding global economic mess. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he talks about a range of mining stocks that can offer investors the type of diversification and upside potential needed in today's rocky market environment and highlights several favorites.

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Gold and Silver at Bargain Prices Again? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Eric_McWhinnie

Gold and silver bulls have been pushed back against the wall recently. The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its worst quarter since 2009, and caused many investors to liquidate their winning gold positions. Meanwhile, more economic slowdown fears seem to surface everyday, causing silver to be more volatile than gold. While gold gained roughly 8% in the third quarter, silver fell about 13%. Now, true gold and silver bulls are bargain hunting in precious metals.

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Gold and Silver On the Threshold of the Greatest Bubble in History / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Jeff_Clark

Jeff Clark, BIG GOLD writes: It may not feel like it after a 12% correction in the past 30 days, but Mike Maloney – founder of GoldSilver.com – is convinced that we’re in a gold bull market that will be life changing for those who participate. I interviewed him for our current edition of BIG GOLD and am sharing some of what we talked about here. You may be shocked at what you read, because he’s devoted a larger allocation to gold and silver than we have. See why he’s convinced a bubble is ahead for precious metals, how high prices will go, and why he stores some gold overseas.

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Demand for Wealth Preservation Ensures Gold's Retreat is Temporary / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Nick_Barisheff

Gold will continue rising in value over the coming years for one reason: The primary buyers are purchasing physical gold for wealth preservation, and there simply isn't enough physical gold to satisfy their appetites. The recent pullback was by no means the bursting of the gold bubble. Bubbles are characterized by months of extended exuberance and consistently higher highs -- not the two- and three- hundred-dollar corrections we've seen twice in the past few weeks. Such pullbacks are healthy as they indicate gold has much, much farther to go.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Gold Tests $1600 Support as Eurozone Fears Banking Crisis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ben_Traynor

SPOT MARKET gold prices fell below $1600 per ounce for the second time in less than 24 hours Tuesday morning in London – testing a level first breached on the way up back in July – before rebounding, while stocks and commodities rallied and government bond prices dipped following news that EU ministers are contemplating a European bank recapitalization.

Outflows from the world's largest gold ETF the SPDR Gold Trust (ticker GLD) saw the gross tonnage of gold held to back its shares fall to its lowest level since July 14 yesterday.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Goldman and BOA Maintain 12 Month Gold Forecasts of $1,860 & $2,000 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: GoldCore

Gold is 1.3% lower in US dollars and has fallen in all currencies today and is trading at USD 1,606.90, EUR 1,207/oz, GBP 1,039.50, JPY 122,637.90, AUD 1,672.28 and CHF 1,474.38 per ounce.

Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,600, EUR 1,202.56, and GBP 1,035.40 per ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,672, EUR 1,267.05, and GBP 1,086.35 per ounce.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

The Gold Price Conspiracy Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You to Know About / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Money_Morning

Peter Krauth writes: Is it really so preposterous to believe the United States and Europe would conspire to keep pole position in the global financial system?

I don't think so - and neither does China.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Silver Beaten Down by Strong U.S. Dollar / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: George_Maniere

Yesterday, I had several readers ask if it was possible that my theories on silver going to $50.00 to $60.00 by year’s end were wrong. I told them yes, It might go to $100.00 by mid March. I have often stated that I believe that silver is incredibly undervalued. While this sounds like an outrageous claim, silver is actually rarer than gold.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Gold Stocks Bottom? / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: Willem_Weytjens

Earlier today, the markets tanked on Europe concerns. Gold & Gold Stocks were not spared.

While everybody is in panic mode, it’s time to look at some interesting charts.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Hot Canadian Oil and Natural Gas Stocks / Commodities / Oil Companies

By: The_Energy_Report

With well over 100 attractive companies to choose from in the mid-tier Canadian oil and gas industry, investors have many interesting opportunities to profit from continuing demand growth. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Mackie Research Senior Energy Analyst Robert Cooper zeros in on three of his favorite stocks and elaborates on his investment criteria.

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Is Gold Bound to Rebound? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Przemyslaw_Radomski

Recently, investors have suffered an average market decline of 6.5% in the equity portion of their investments, the largest fall since the dark days of October 2008, with $1 trillion of paper wealth evaporating in the process. Speaking of October 2008, it was then that gold prices tumbled 18% as turmoil in global financial markets led to losses in global equity and commodity markets. The precious metal rallied 23% in the next two months.

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Gold Down, Stocks Continue Falling as Greek Fears Destroy Bank Credibility / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ben_Traynor

THE U.S. DOLLAR gold price dropped to $1643 an ounce Tuesday lunchtime in London – still a 1.1% gain on the week so far – while stocks and commodities were battered again as Greek debt fears weighed on markets.

Copper fell 1.9%%, while WTI crude oil lost over 2%, dropping to $76 a barrel.

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Indian Silver Demand Leads to ‘Supply Issues’ / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: GoldCore

Gold is 0.4% higher in US dollars and is trading at USD 1,665.10, EUR 1,263.00 , GBP 1,082.80, JPY 127,651, AUD 1,764.90 and CHF 1,534.90  per ounce. Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,672.00, EUR 1,267.05, and GBP 1,086.35 per ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,660.00, EUR 1,242.51, and GBP 1,068.07 per ounce.

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Race to Debase - 2011 Q3 - Fiat Currencies vs Gold & Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: GoldSilver

Welcome back to the Worldwide Fiat Currency Race to Debase!

Rounding out the third quarter of 2011 heading to the finish line for the year, we are again tracking the performance of gold and silver bullion versus 75 different dying fiat currencies around the world.

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Gold Stocks Drop Opens Opportunities / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: The_Gold_Report

Steven Butler, senior precious metals analyst at Canaccord Genuity, didn't expect mining equities to fall as hard as they did after the gold price tumbled from a high of $1,900/oz. But the unexpected plunge has created some welcome bargains in the space. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Butler talks about some equities unfairly bullied by the market that have promising projects underway.

The Gold Report: Gold is down $100/ounce (oz.) and I think investors want some salvo. Is this a buying opportunity?

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Lottery Odds Events Keeping Gold and Silver Prices Contained / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Rob_Kirby

From Bill Murphy’s Lemetropolecafe.com “Midas commentary” on Friday, Sept. 30, 2011:

HSBC has published an interesting study of the recent precious metal volatility:

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Gold and Silver Speculators Have Left the Building / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne

We use a combination of sentiment analysis and technical analysis in market timing which often gets a bad name courtesy of mainstream retail nonsense. The dumb money tries to time the market while the smart money utilizes market timing to weigh risk and reward. It's rather simple when you acquire the skills and helps you understand markets. Recently we had been quite bullish on precious metals but thought we were in a small corrective period. We were wrong as the sector has suffered from Europe's version of 2008. The good news is, our market timing work leads us to believe that the worst is soon to be over and this is an opportunity on the long side for those who have a twelve month time horizon.

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Did the Gold and Silver Plunges Shakeout the Weak? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Eric_McWhinnie

September brought another interesting month to gold and silver investors. Despite the large pullback, gold still managed to log in its 11th consecutive quarterly gain. Meanwhile, silver briefly touched a low of $26, but has since climbed back above $30. Ultimately, this pullback in gold and silver will be positive for precious metals, as weaker leveraged investors are shaken out.

Monday, October 03, 2011

Is the Gold And Silver Correction Over? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Jeb_Handwerger

Stock markets are tumbling from Japan to Wall Street. Already shaky Spanish and Italian financial instruments are quaking in their fancy boots as Greece does not make the cuts needed to be able to receive financial assistance. Vladimir Putin, a prototypical example of a classic Russian Bear says that the American Bull has blunted horns and suffers from impotence. He states, "Americans are living beyond their means and shifting the weight of their problems to the world economy...They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar." China joined Putin by calling the brouhaha in the West as "madcap brinksmanship."