Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Japan's Tsunami Nuclear Crisis Has Created Uranium Investment Opportunities / Commodities / Uranium

By: The_Energy_Report

The uranium market is still shell-shocked from the tsunami in Japan and the resulting anti-nuclear backlash. But Philip Williams, vice president of business development for investment firm Pinetree Capital in Toronto, is urging investors to dust themselves off and start shopping. Strong fundamentals are still in play and upcoming catalysts could boost suffering uranium equities this year. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Williams discusses which companies he expects will ride the updraft.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Gold Not in a Bubble, On Its Way to $10,000 an Ounce / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Nick_Barisheff

"Gold is not a financial asset to be compared with dot-com stocks or Miami condos and it is not a commodity like pork bellies or crude oil. It is the ultimate currency for the truly sophisticated wealth holder in a time of substantial unreserved credit promotion." ~ Paul Brodsky (Fund Manager)

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Canadian Oil Sands - A Good Investment? Not in Europe, Apparently / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: OilPrice_Com

Any American watching cable TV over the past few months can hardly fail to have noticed the seemingly ubiquitous advertisements extolling the virtues of extracting oil from Canadian oil sands, which the commentators assure their audience has a carbon footprint largely comparable with traditional fossil fuels, and which, if developed will provide not only millions of new jobs but billions of dollars for governments as well as energy security by weaning the Western Hemisphere off its addiction to terrorism-tainted Middle East oil.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Days Of Reckoning Are Here: Accumulate Gold, Silver and Hard Assets / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Jeb_Handwerger

We have alerted our subscribers on many occasions during the past two years that global credit downgrades of sovereign nations were inevitable. It does not take a prophet to have foreseen the turbulence in the global marketplace that we have witnessed since the expiration of QE2. Standard and Poor's cut the rating one level from AAA to AA+. This action sent shockwaves reverberating throughout the financial world as irrational investors sought U.S. treasuries for liquidity. These days of reckoning will be with us for a long time as investors flee from deteriorating paper after an artificially induced debt bubble to undervalued real wealth in the earth assets such as the gold(GDX) and silver miners(SIL).

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Gold Falls Back from Two-Week High on Euro Meeting Delay / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ben_Traynor

THE SPOT MARKET gold price fell to $1655 an ounce Tuesday morning in London – a gain of 1% for the week so far – while stocks and commodities were mostly flat ahead of a Slovakian parliament vote that could potentially jeopardize efforts to tackle the Eurozone debt crisis.

Earlier on Tuesday the gold price hit its highest level in over a fortnight at $1685.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Interim Peak in Bonds Coincides with Rebound in Gold Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne

We’ve written about the importance of intermarket analysis. Movements in various sectors and asset classes influence each other. The Treasury market is the largest in the world and affects trends in other markets. Interestingly, Bonds at times move with Gold. In these cases it is due to a safety or flight to quality play and as a result mining equities tend to underperform. Earlier this year, the safety plays were the Swiss Franc, Gold and Bonds. The first two were first to reverse and now Bonds are putting in an important top. The beneficiary of this market shit will be mining equities and equities in general.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Hedging With Gold Against Imminent Economic Collapse / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: The_Gold_Report

After leaving the securities brokerage industry in 2009, Ian Gordon founded Longwave Analytics and Longwave Strategies to focus on protecting investors from what he believes is a global macroeconomic meltdown that is already underway. Gordon proposes that physical gold and certain gold stocks will be investors' best hedge and overall solution to the worst financial crisis the world has seen. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Gordon shares his thoughts on the current economic mess and how investors can take action now.

The Gold Report: You founded this firm based on your long wave theory that is based on the Kondratieff Cycle. How is this same or different from Kondratieff?

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Peak Silver Revisited: Impacts of a Global Depression, Declining Ore Grades & a Falling EROI  / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Steve_St_Angelo

The world is about to peak in global silver production.  This will not occur due to a lack of silver to mine, but rather as a result of the peaking of world energy resources, declining ore grades, and a falling Energy Returned On Invested – EROI.  The information below will describe a future world that very few have forecasted and even less are prepared.  This is an update to my previous article Peak Silver and Mining by a Falling EROI.  In my first article I stated that global silver production may peak in 2009 if we were to enter a worldwide depression.  We did not have the global depression as massive central bank printing and bailouts have thus far postponed the inevitable.

Monday, October 10, 2011

The Eurozone Lights a Fire Under Gold and Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Eric_McWhinnie

Just three months after passing a Euro stress test with flying colors, Belgium has agreed to buy the local consumer-lending unit of Dexia for 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion), and will guarantee 60% of a so-called bank to set up for Dexia’s troubled assets. The bailout was inevitable as European sovereign debt worries caused the bank’s short-term funding to vanish. Dexia’s agreement to nationalize its Belgian banking division and receive state guarantees paves the way for other eurozone governments to provide rescue packages to strengthen banking sectors.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Gold Starts Week Strongly / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ben_Traynor

WHOLESALE MARKET gold bullion prices climbed to $1670 an ounce Monday lunchtime in London – 2% up on last week's close – while stocks and commodities also rose and government bonds fell following a pledge by France and Germany to recapitalize Europe's banks.

Silver bullion rose to $32.37 – 3.8% up on where it ended last week.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Gold At Major Crossroads / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: EconMatters

I think next week will mark a major turning point in the gold market. Depending on whether the dollar continues higher or turns back down we will either see a resumption of the D-Wave decline or this will just turn into a normal run-of-the-mill intermediate degree correction followed by another leg up in this 2 1/2 year C-wave advance.

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Gold Failing to Break Higher, More Downside Ahead? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Merv_Burak

Ho-Hum!  50 points here, 50 points there but really not going anywhere.  Gold can’t seem to get any upside steam.  Is more downside ahead?

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Gold Likely Heading Lower, Silver in a Bear Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ned_W_Schmidt

2011, quickly moving toward history book status, may be known more for what did not happen than what did. Hyperinflation may still be lurking, but for about the fourth year is yet to be seen. U.S. dollar should have been to zero, per the many popular forecasts, at least twice. Euro's imminent demise has been quietly rescheduled for 2012. Beginning of Silver's decade became instead the beginning of Silver Bear Market II. $Gold is not trading above $2,000. Guess that means $5,000 was not reached either. Fourth year in a row for the conspicuous absence of hurricanes in Florida. So much for weather gurus, climate change, Keynesian forecasters, and other forms of sorcery.

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Gold Intermarket Insights / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Capital3X

We analyze Gold charts by looking at Inter-market analysis for the month of October. This is an update from our August Gold analysis and September Gold analysis all of which had noticed the stalling Gold at 1888 before we issued our shorts to catch the trend move to 1603.

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Inflation, Money Circulation Problems = Gangrenous Liquidity, Rising Gold Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Julian_DW_Phillips

According to the Oxford Dictionary: - Inflation, the general increase of prices and fall in purchasing value of money. Deflation, reverse or reversal of inflation. Stagflation, state of inflation without the corresponding increase of demand and employment.

A situation arises where the quantity of money is not as important as how far its circulation reaches. It slowly becomes insufficient to buy the needs and wants of the population at the periphery of the economy.

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Silver Suspected Bear Pennant Signaling Further Price Drop / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Clive_Maund

It now looks like we were a little too bullish in the last update, for the way silver has acted over the past week suggests that another sharp drop is imminent before the dust finally settles on this reactive phase, that it likely to take it to or some way below its recent panic lows.

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Gold Price Set to Drop into Aggressive Accumulation Zone / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Clive_Maund

It now looks like we were a little too bullish in the last update, for the way gold has acted over the past week suggests that another sharp drop is imminent before the dust finally settles on this reactive phase, that it likely to take it to or some way below its recent panic lows.

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Own U.S. Treasury Bonds or Gold and Silver? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: George_Maniere

The drop in price of gold and silver is because they are considered to be in a bubble. In my opinion a bubble is when the underlying asset trades in high volumes at prices that are inflated to their true values. There are economists that assert that asset prices often deviate from their intrinsic values. Because it is often difficult to determine what the intrinsic value of an asset is bubbles are often seen in retrospect like when sudden drops in prices appear. They are seen as a crash or a bubble burst. It is important to recognize that prices of a bubble can fluctuate erratically and make it impossible to predict from supply and demand alone.

Saturday, October 08, 2011

Gold and Silver Stocks Bottom Materializing Right Now? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Przemyslaw_Radomski

There are times when we need to have the courage of our convictions, even when we are losing money in the process. (That’s where the courage part comes in. Like Ernest Hemingway said: “Courage is grace under pressure.”) We are still bullish on the precious metals sector in both short- and long term. Although the whole sector moved lower again early this week, important support levels remained firm. Many of our readers are probably concerned, as it is easy to get emotional at times of uncertainty. This is why we need to underline that although mining stocks took a hit, we have not changed our mind about our long position. If the situation was very oversold before, now it is extremely oversold. We are of a view that the precious metals sector is forming a bottom. Such pullbacks are healthy as they indicate gold has much, much farther to go.

Saturday, October 08, 2011

Finding Silver's Bottom! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Bob_Kirtley

Silver prices appear to have found a bottom at the $30.00 level, however, we are looking at a very short time period and such micro analysis can make monkeys out of us. A few months ago silver prices looked to have bottomed at the $34.00 level, but the ensuing rally was short lived and once again silver got clobbered. From a technical standpoint we can see that the RSI is now trending north and from a low level too, which gives it the room to move a little higher from this point and we view it as a positive indication. The MACD is also well and truly in the oversold zone and about to form a crossover which will be another positive indication of where silver prices are going next.