Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Global Demand for Iron Ore on Rise / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Gold_Report
How long until the window on rising iron-ore prices closes? Global demand is driving prices higher and shipping costs are at historic lows. But only companies poised to get into production quickly will be able to capitalize. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Geordie Mark, an analyst with Haywood Securities in Vancouver, picks the companies that are ready to profit and those that are likely to get picked off by competitors.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Silver Parabolic Blowoff, Gold Price Steady / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: PhilStockWorld
The virtues of gold (GLD) and silver (SLV) are being addressed far and wide. My readers know the steady drumbeat of praise that is reaching a crescendo for the white metal scares the hell out of me. The driving forces behind silver’s price come from investors, industrial demands and a global shortage. The world simply is using more silver than the mines produce and new silver discoveries are becoming difficult to find. These factors are becoming truisms for public consumption. A parabolic rise has formed in silver as gold advances on to our measured target of $1600.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Gold Rises as U.S. Rates Set to Stay "Exceptionally Low" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE WHOLESALE MARKET price to buy gold rose but silver held flat in Asian and London trade on Wednesday, as the Dollar fell, European equities rose, but "peripheral" Eurozone debt sank again, driving credit-default insurance costs up to new record levels.
Crude oil and natural gas prices bucked a drop in the broad commodities market.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Gold and Silver Bubble? Some ETF Retail Investors Are Taking Profits / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Gold and silver are tentatively lower this morning despite the dollar and especially the yen being under pressure. The possibility of Japan being downgraded has seen the yen join the dollar under pressure and gold has risen to over 124,000 Japanese yen per ounce, some 2% below the record nominal high just over 126,000/oz.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Silver Top or Not? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
When gold hit the psychologically important $1,500 level it didn't surprise us, but we admit that silver’s recent performance gave us a small thrill. Before jumping into the chart analysis, let’s have a look into the factors that contributed to metals’ spectacular rally over the past couple of weeks.
For the first time in its history the U.S.'s perfect AAA credit rating was downgraded, and for the first time in history, gold hit the $1,500-an-ounce mark. Also, the news over the week end of a $1 billion gold bullion purchase by one of the largest college endowment funds sent a strong message about gold’s re-emergence as a respected, legitimate asset class.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Oil Field Services and Equipment Sector Investing / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: The_Energy_Report
Large oil-drilling projects in the U.S. and abroad, the price of oil and new drilling technologies have brought growth and stability to oil field services and equipment companies. Read why investors are looking at this sector in The Energy Report's exclusive interview with Brian Uhlmer, managing director and senior analyst of Global Hunter Securities' Energy Group.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Gold and Silver Correction Possible but Store of Value Demand Remains / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Silver and gold are lower today after the record nominal highs seen yesterday (gold marginally and silver significantly). Gold reached $1,518.30 per troy ounce, a nominal record, while silver climbed to $49.79 per ounce, its highest nominal level since the short term parabolic spike in 1980.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Gold Back Above $1500 as US Ranked 4th Riskiest Sovereign Debtor / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD reversed an overnight dip beneath $1500 per ounce in London on Tuesday morning, trading within 1% of Monday's new record high at $1518 as European stock markets rose together with major government bonds and energy prices.
Following yesterday's dramatic Asian trade and greater-than-7% price range, "Silver showed further weakness" according to one Hong Kong dealer, "stretching [his] expectation about how volatile it could be."
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Silver Parabolic Move Was 5 Times Faster in 1980 than Today / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Bob_Kirtley
This essay will attempt to address the question of whether or not silver prices are in a bubble, or possibly may be turning into a bubble and if so what trading strategies may be suited to the situation. This article will hopefully provide another string to the readers bow in attempting to identify bubbles and being able to protect one’s portfolio and even potentially profit from them. For the record we feel it is prudent to state our view upfront, we do not think silver is in a bubble at this point in time. However we think that it is likely that it will become a bubble in the future, but we cannot say when or at what price.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Silver Bullion Investors Are Being Hoodwinked by the Futures Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Dian_L_Chu
The Silver market is in a bubble stage right now. No one really knows how long this will last, whether Silver goes up another $5, 10, 20 doesn`t really matter for investors who are buying the physical metal in the form of coins because when the bubble ends they are going to be sitting on a depreciating asset.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Silver Key Intra-Day Reversal / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Puru_Saxena
On Monday, the silver market experienced a key intra-day reversal. During Asian trading, the price of silver surged to almost US$50 per ounce (+5% intra-day), however during European trade, selling came in and the metal struggled to stay firm. Thereafter, when the US market opened, the price of silver plunged to below its previous close. In other words, the silver market experienced a classic intra-day reversal, which usually markets the end of a parabolic move.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
High Gold Prices Raise Old Mines / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: The_Gold_Report
Dramatic rises in metals prices over the past 2 years could bring 10 or more past-producing mining camps back to life. In this Gold Report exclusive, MineralFields Group's Engineer and Investment Analyst Ron Wortel shares how he finds promising gold juniors working these mines and structures tax-advantaged, flow-through investments to finance Canadian resource development.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Gold Investors Don’t Fear a Pullback in Prices / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Frank_Holmes
The S&P credit agency sent shockwaves through the global financial system on Monday when it issued a warning on U.S. debt and changed its outlook on the U.S. sovereign credit rating from “stable” to “negative.” This sent markets lower and the prices of commodities such as oil rocketing back above $110 per barrel and both gold and silver to new highs.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The Coming Junior Gold and Silver Stock Eruption / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Q1_Publishing
The junior market is on the verge of blowing up like a “Coke geyser.”
If you’re not one of the 13 million views of what happens when Mentos are dropped into a bottle of Diet Coke, you should know it creates an eruption of foam reaching as high as 20 feet.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Charting the Course to $7 Gas / Commodities / Gas - Petrol
By: MISES
J. Kevin Meaders writes: Let's go back to the beginning of the current economic crisis — yes, it is still a crisis for many millions of Americans who lost their jobs, ruined their credit, filed for bankruptcy, lost their homes, and lost their lifestyle. Shanty towns have popped up all over America, though rarely gaining media exposure.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Parabolic Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: John_Hampson
It's the hot topic of the moment, and everyone is offering an opinion, so I'll be succinct. The question I am asking myself is, do I want to take partial profits on silver here?
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sell Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Appears Scotty got it wrong again. We said to beam us up, and he beamed us back. All of a sudden we seem to have returned to 2008. Perhaps, though, we should not be so tough on Scotty. The Federal Reserve had a hand on the controls too, continuing the longest running stretch of asset price distortions in all of history. Think of 97-year-old sports team with one winning season, 1953.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Real Interest Rates Explain the Gold Price Perfectly…Too Perfectly? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Andrew_Butter
The latest idea coming out of the “Hedge-Fund” camp that I saw to explain the recent meteoric climb in the price of gold as expressed in US dollars is “Real” interest rates.
Leaving aside what is “real” and what is illusion for a moment, if you take a timeline of the US 10-Year Treasury yield and subtract the published CPI number you get to one (of many) estimates of “real” interest rates. Then you cumulate that number, you can build a reasonably decent “explanatory” model to explain the price of gold, since say January 2002.
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
Geopolitics and the World's Gold Holdings / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Michel_Chossudovsky
Both the US dollar and the Euro currency systems are in crisis. During a period of waning currencies, where the value of money (in paper and/or electronic form) is tumbling, the strategic control over gold reserves and gold production is of paramount importance.
The issue is not only who controls the stock of central bank gold reserves, but who, namely which countries, control the production of mine gold.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Silver Forecast $52 to $56 by Mid 2011 Update / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldRunner
Back on February 18th I wrote an editorial showing that Silver could rocket up to $52 to $56 by mid-year. At the time of the writing Silver was sitting a little above $32 on the price chart. The original chart work was based off of the fractal chart work I do with Silver from previous fractal time periods. So far the rise in Silver appears to be right on track for our expected targets to be approached into mid-year. I will post a link to the original article, below, for your perusal.