Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Buying Silver at $100 and the Rebirth of Counterfeiting / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The debate about buying silver rounds, “junk silver” or silver Eagles goes on and on.
Although better prices may be available on silver rounds, investors continue to worry about the “China scare” and rumors of counterfeit silver coins.
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Gold and Silver Bullion Are On the Move / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Eric_McWhinnie
The price movement of gold and silver often attract much attention. When prices make a noticeable increase, it regularly leads to permabulls calling for the next great explosion in precious metals. On the other hand, any dips or corrections lead to critics calling for an end to the 12-year bull market. Both sides are debatable, but there is no denying that physical bullion made impressive moves this past week.
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
German Gold Lessons for Private Investors / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Adrian_Ash
The Bundesbank's announcement contained little news for the market. But for private investors...?
The GERMAN Bundesbank is rightly famed as the world's least stupid central bank.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Contrarian Gold Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2013
By: Zeal_LLC
Before investors can sell high and multiply their wealth, they first have to buy low. The lower any trade’s entry price, the greater its ultimate profits. The best time to buy low is when stocks are deeply out of favor, when few others are willing to buy. And that certainly describes gold and silver stocks today. This sector is universally loathed despite fantastic fundamentals, offering vast opportunities for brave contrarians.
Contrarian investing is simple in concept, yet very difficult in execution. The fortunes of stocks flow and ebb, their prices rising and falling. After they’ve risen, they quickly become popular. Everyone wants them and bids up their prices. That’s when it feels the best to buy, so that’s when the great majority of investors rush in to chase the rally. But following the herd leads to buying high, the recipe for failure.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Gold Demand: East vs. West / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Clif_Droke
Gold, as defined by the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), has been a less than stellar performer of late. I’ve long maintained that the 150-day moving average is a psychologically significant benchmark for the gold ETF, both as a line of support and resistance. GLD’s performance in recent weeks has only confirmed this observation. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 18, 2013
Technical Trading Charts for Dollar, Stocks, Gold, Oil and Bonds - 18th Jan / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
January 18th, 2013 at 9:41 am Dollar index 4 hour chart is forming a bear flag. Until the lower blue support line is broken the flag will continue higher.
Friday, January 18, 2013
The Character of the Gold Mining Sector is Changing / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2013
By: Toby_Connor
The big news for Thursday is that gold formed a weekly swing. Considering that the QE4 manipulation stretched the intermediate cycle way beyond its normal timing band, this weekly swing should confirm that the yearly cycle low is complete.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Will Platinum Outperform Gold? / Commodities / Platinum
By: P_Radomski_CFA
Platinum and gold have been playing a game of tag, and this week, platinum took the lead again regaining its rightful position up front, but for how long?
Looking back at history, platinum has been the front runner with an average $200 to $400 premium to gold. At times the difference was much greater. Before the 2008 Lehman Brothers crash, platinum was trading at more than $2,270 per ounce while gold was trading under $990 an ounce. The prices as of close of this week's issue were $1,686.50 for gold and $1,694.30 for platinum.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Gold and Silver Touch 1-Month Highs / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ben_Traynor
SPOT MARKET gold prices hovered around $1690 an ounce Friday morning in London, having touched a one-month high in earlier Asian trading, while European stock markets opened slightly higher after gains in Asia, following the release of the latest economic growth figures from China.
"[Gold] support is at $1625, the January 4 low," say technical analysts at bullion bank Scotia Mocatta.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Gold Will Prove A Safe Haven From Currency Storms / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was U.S.D 1,690.00, EUR 1,265.82, and 1,060.49 GBP per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was U.S.D 1,683.25, EUR 1,260.11 and GBP 1,050.85 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $31.79/oz, €23.91/oz and £20.04/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,695.25/oz, palladium at $723.00/oz and rhodium at $1,150/oz.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Gold Price January Effect, Forecast 2013 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Peter_Degraaf
In this essay we will present the expectation for the price of gold to rise during January and February, based on seasonal trends. Charts are courtesy Stockcharts.com unless indicated. The energy for a rise in gold prices comes from at least four different sources.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Gold The Single Best Investment of 2013? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Profit_Confidential
The amount of bearish sentiment towards gold prices these days on the part of investors is not surprising to me. Investors often work in herds, moving to “hot” sectors from “weak” sectors very quickly. But, as I have said all along, the “gold play” is a long-term one, not a speculative one.
Economics 101: if demand for an asset or item increases, prices rise. If supply of an asset or item increases above demand, prices fall.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Gold Price Setting Up for a Massive Breakout in 2H 2013 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
This piece expounds upon what we covered last week. In that piece, regarding Gold, we concluded:
If Gold is able to firm up here and now then it has a good shot to rally back to $1750-$1800 over the next few months. If we get the bullish scenario and a fundamental catalyst shift then expect Gold to break past $1800 in Q3. That would mean that Gold consolidated for two years which would be its longest consolidation on record. The longer the consolidation, the more explosive the breakout.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
How Green Are Gold's Blue-Chip Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2013
By: Casey_Research
Andreay Dashkov writes: Disenchanted with gold's lackadaisical performance over the last year, some investors are losing interest in the equities that are supposed to provide leverage to the metal's price movements. The press has added fuel to the fire by increasingly attacking gold-mining CEOs for rising production costs and weak stock prices. This has driven some investors to pursue ETFs or other vehicles as a replacement for gold stocks, while others have simply thrown their hands up and left the precious-metals space. Is this overreaction or rational decision-making?
Friday, January 18, 2013
Hugo Chavez: Dictator vs. Gold Investors / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2013
By: Dudley_Baker
What’s really happening in Venezuela with gold properties?
Is Chavez, alive or dead? Will he return? How will these answers affect the gold properties in Venezuela?
From our friends at ResourceInvestingNews.com they reported in a January 7, 2013 article:
“Chavez seized 988 companies between 2002 and August 2011, according to a report from Conindustria, a Venezuelan industry chamber. He also nationalized the country’s gold mines in September 2011. At the time, the biggest foreign miner operating in Venezuela was Rusoro Mining (TSXV:RML), which had two producing mines in the country, along with 10 exploration properties. The seizure sent Rusoro’s stock tumbling 16.7 percent on the day the announcement was made, according to Mining.com.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
German Gold Panic, What Do German Central Bankers Know That We Don’t? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Graham_Summers
Ben Bernanke and the rest of the US Federal Reserve bet the farm that they could engage in countless monetary interventions, keep interest rates at zero, and print over $2 trillion in new money without damaging the US’s credibility.
They were wrong. Indeed, Germany just fired a major warning shot to the US Federal Reserve.
On Monday, Germany announced that it will be moving a significant portion of its Gold reserves out of storage with the New York Fed and moving them back to Germany.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Germany Is Bringing It's Gold Back Home, You Should Too! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: Germany wants its gold back...
The European nation wants to bring home 300 tons of gold currently held at the U.S. Federal Reserve and all 374 tons held at the Banque de France.
Why does Germany want all of its gold OUT of France? Legendary investor Bill Gross has a thought about that... On Twitter, he asked, could it be that "central banks don't trust each other"?
Thursday, January 17, 2013
German Gold Story Distracts from Supply & Demand Data, $1900 Forecast by July / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Adrian_Ash
DOLLAR gold prices were little changed in London on Thursday morning, holding above $1682 per ounce as world stock markets, commodities and bonds were little changed.
Silver also held in its tight 2-day range, trading just shy of $31.50 per ounce.
Priced in Euros, the gold price edged 0.5% lower as the single currency rose.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Gold, Silver, and Real Assets to Shelter from The Coming Storm / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: DeviantInvestor
What Storm?
- A hurricane of digital money created by central banks to purchase government debt and other dodgy assets from banks.
- A tidal wave of deficit spending by governments around the world. It continues, regardless of whether you call it business as usual, stimulus, payoffs, or bailouts.
- A perfect storm of derivatives – the weapons of mass financial destruction that continue to plague our financial system – but make $Billions (Maybe $Trillions) in profits for the huge banks.
- A tornado of bailouts, giveaways, loans, and currency swaps from the Federal Reserve to backstop banks, politically connected individuals and corporations, European governments and others.
- An approaching thunderstorm of new and higher taxes – perhaps a carbon tax, a VAT, and a wealth tax. We hope most of these will be downgraded to a hot air disturbance.
- A tsunami of Japanese Yen based on the election of Prime Minister Abe and his avowed intention to weaken the Yen
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Germany's Gold Repatriation Unlikely To Assuage Public Concerns / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,683.25, EUR 1,260.11, and GBP 1,050.85 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,679.75, EUR 1,262.78 and GBP 1,047.55 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $31.53/oz, €23.68/oz and £19.75/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,687.50/oz, palladium at $725.00/oz and rhodium at $1,125/oz.
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