Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The Currency Markets and the Gold Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Miles_Banner
Dear Reader, Over the past few months there has been a growing amount of interest in the currency markets especially the pound, the euro and the dollar. Each has faced issues that have exposed weaknesses. The pound has long come into criticism for being overvalued. The euro has been dragged through fresh scepticism by the Greek crisis, and the dollar continues to be questioned as the reserve currency of choice.
Monday, March 15, 2010
What's Going to Happen to Gold Next? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: INO
This week could be shaping up to be an extraordinary week in the markets. I strongly recommend that traders everywhere take precautionary measure measures to protect capital.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Gold Cautious Ahead of Fed Interest Rate Decision / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD gave back an early 0.6% rise vs. the Dollar as New York opened for business on Monday, slipping together with world stock markets and commodity prices ahead of tomorrow's Federal Reserve interest-rate decision.
The Euro and Sterling both fell on the currency market, helping the gold price for European and UK buyers to rise.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Gold Supported by Geopolitical and Sovereign Risk as S&P and Moodys Warn US / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold fell in US trading on Friday from $1,119/oz to $1,098/oz to close with a loss of 0.54% and a loss of nearly 3% for the week. Silver was again more resilient and fell less than 2% last week. Gold has range traded from $1,102/oz to $1,106/oz so far in Asian and European trading this morning. Gold is currently trading at $1,103.00/oz and in euro and GBP terms, gold is trading at €804/oz and £732/oz respectively. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Gold, Where We’ve Been…And Maybe Where We’re Going / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: David_Vaughn
Presently there are about 5 billion ounces of gold floating around out there some where. More and more investors are adding gold to their portfolios as insurance. Gold has become the 3rd largest asset held by world central bankers. And many families are adding gold to their personal portfolios as they come to discover that all is not right in Alice in Financial Land.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Technical View of What’s Next for Precious Metals, Stocks & the Dollar / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Last weeks price action unfolded just as we expected. Money poured into stocks with the focus being on small cap, banks and technology stocks. The fact that these sectors are showing strength while utilities, health care and consumer staples lag is a good sign that investors are once again taking risks in the market.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Are Crude Oil & Natural Gas about to Explode Higher? / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Last weeks price action unfolded just as we expected. Money poured into stocks with the focus being on small cap, banks and technology stocks. The fact that these sectors are showing strength while utilities, health care and consumer staples lag is a good sign that investors are once again taking risks in the market.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Gold Tumbles Into Short-term Bearish Trend, Long-term Still Bullish / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Merv_Burak
It’s been a bummer of a week but all is not lost yet. Markets go up, down and sideways. This seems to be one of those intermediate term sideway periods with short term ups and downs.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
The Giant Financial Risk You'll Never Hear About on Television / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: DailyWealth
Matt Badiali writes: From 20 miles in the air, the Musandam Peninsula doesn't look like much.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
New ETFs: Bullion Equivalent or Metal Facade? / Commodities / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Jennifer_Barry
Due to my ongoing interest in palladium, I decided to investigate the new platinum and palladium exchange traded funds sponsored by ETF Securities. They just started trading in the US under the symbols PPLT (for platinum) and PALL (for palladium) after a nine month regulatory process.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Crude Prices Stagnate Amid Doubts About Global Demand / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: OilPrice_Com
Crude oil prices tread water for the week as uncertainty about demand continued to weigh on the market. Prices were down slightly on the week, with the benchmark West Texas Intermediate settling on Friday at $81.24 a barrel, compared with $81.50 a week ago.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Paper Gold Market Is Going to Explode, Buy Physical Bullion NOW! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Gordon_Gekko
Evidence seems to be mounting that we are headed towards some sort of implosion in the paper Gold market, and perhaps the currency/bond markets in general. Let’s take a look:
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Jim Rogers Says Buy Gold, Silver and Copper To Protect From Devaluing Currencies / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: LewRockwell
Noted commodities investor and author of bestselling books like Hot Commodities and A Bull in China, Jim Rogers says investors should continue to buy gold, silver and copper as governments across the world are dishing out heaps of printed currencies with declining values.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Is Gold Starting to Trade Like a Currency? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Sol_Palha
"Remember when $25, 000 was a success? Now it is a garbage collector." ~ Frank Dane
At one point on Monday the Dollar was trading in the red and Gold which should have shot up was actually trading roughly 10 dollars lower. As the Day progressed both the Dollar and the Euro were trending upwards together while Gold continued to slide. The story below attempts to provide a reason for this phenomenon.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
China's Gold Plans and Silver's Long- and Short-Term Trends / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
When politicians talk it is always a good idea to try and read between the lines.
This Tuesday China's chief foreign exchange regulator, Yi Gang, told reporters that China is not interested in increasing its gold reserves.
Really?
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Gold Price Major Correction Coming? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
We are hearing from some sources that the gold price will tackle previous highs then fall to $850. We did hear this before gold rose to $1,100, with many believing that then there would be a correction to $850, but it didn’t happen then either. What happened was that gold held its ground then broke upwards through resistance to set itself on track for higher prices.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
US Mint Gold Bullion Coin Sales / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Zeal_LLC
The US Mint’s popular American Eagle gold and silver coins remain in high demand by US investors. Working to overcome production bottlenecks, the Mint radically stepped up operations last year to the highest levels by far of this entire secular gold bull. The Mint’s Eagle sales data offers interesting insights into physical precious-metals demand.
Friday, March 12, 2010
China Says Buy Gold (on weakness) / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Brady_Willett
On March 20, 2007 China’s Central Bank governor, Zhou Zianochuan, had this to say about China’s burgeoning reserves:
“Many people say that foreign exchange reserves in China are (already) large enough…We do not intend to go further and accumulate reserves” Zhou Xiaochuan
Friday, March 12, 2010
Gold Up, Dollar Down, as George Soros Buys More Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD rose versus a falling US Dollar Friday morning in London, recovering one-third of the week's earlier 3% drop as world stock markets crept towards new multi-month highs.
Crude oil also rose, pushing above $82 per barrel after the International Energy Agency called January's jump in China's energy demand – up by 28% – "astonishing".
Friday, March 12, 2010
Rebound in Copper Returns Focus On 76.4% Resistance / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
Early this year the prior steady uptrend from a late 2008 low was seen to falter at a key Fibonacci level. After an initial sell-off a strong bounce has unnerved the bears - there is still scope for a resumption of weakness, but the market is at a critical stage.