Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Investing in Silver: Double Down on the White Metal's Gains / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Gold remains the favorite of precious metals investors, but silver is now a strong number two...with a bullet.
That means you should consider investing in silver now before it goes even higher.
In case you haven't noticed, after wallowing around in the mid-20s for months, silver prices have shot back over $30 an ounce.
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Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Gold’s Coming Rise / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
Last year on September 6, 2011, gold reached a high of $1920; but when bullion banks intervened by pushing gold lease rates deep into negative territory in early September, they made sure enough leased gold would reach the markets to drive the price of gold lower.
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Gold Bugs Rejoice At Signs of Bull Market Resumption / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Simit_Patel
Cries of euphoria have been emanating from the gold bug community of late, as signs that the upward trend is getting ready to resume are growing stronger. Consider the following:
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Investors, Don't Push the Panic Button on Rare Earths / Commodities / Rare Earths
By: Critical_Metals_Repo
Lisa Reisman describes herself as a "classic libertarian," but the managing editor of MetalMiner.com nonetheless believes government has a role to play in protecting and developing domestic supplies of critical metals. In this exclusive Critical Metals Report interview, Reisman argues for private/public partnerships and explains why today's low prices don't phase her—or surprise her.
The Critical Metals Report: Lisa, many of the companies in the rare earth elements (REE) space are trading near 52-week lows. Has the bubble burst or is this a consolidation?
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Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Gold and Silver for WHEN Inflation Gets Out of Hand / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Jeff_Clark
Jeff Clark, Casey Research writes: The cheek of it! They raised the price of my favorite ice cream.
Actually, they didn't increase the price; they reduced the container size.
I can now only get three servings for the same amount of money that used to give me four, so I'm buying ice cream more often.
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Wednesday, September 05, 2012
U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves: The New Monetary Tool? / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: EconMatters
Oil and commodities are rising with renewed talk of buying bonds in Europe and future stimulus from the Federal Reserve in the United States. The problem of course is that higher oil prices partially offsets some of the benefits of these Monetary Initiatives by leaders (It is debatable how effective these policies actually are in solving the real issues and problems).
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
September And November Best Months To Own Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,691.50, EUR 1,342.25, and GBP 1,067.44 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,686.00, EUR 1,341.72 and GBP 1,061.65 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $32.06/oz, €25.56/oz and £20.27/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,557.00/oz, palladium at $630.40/oz and rhodium at $1,025/oz.
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Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Gold and Silver "Continue Upswing" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
WHOLESALE prices to buy gold bullion hovered above $1690 an ounce Tuesday morning in London, in line with where they started the week, while stocks and commodities were broadly flat and US Treasuries fell, as markets looked ahead to this week's European Central Bank policy meeting.
Silver bullion rose as high as $32.33 per ounce – 1.9% up on the week so far, and the highest level since April.
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Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Near-Term Targets for Gold, Silver and Mining Shares / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
It's amazing. Suddenly, everyone is bullish again. Two months ago you couldn't give away mining shares or Silver. No one wanted to buy. After back to back weekly gains (for essentially the first time since January) the gold bugs are back and proud. Bullish calls are coming out of the woodwork. This is good and all but as analysts our job is to stay ahead of the market, rather than react to or follow it, as so many professionals do. That being said, today we give you a quick synopsis of where things stand and the potential risks coming into play.
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Has QE3 Already Begun? Gold & Commodities May Be Saying Yes / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Toby_Connor
According to recent statements by Bernanke, the Fed stands ready to act with further easing of monetary policy (QE3) if economic conditions warrant it. But let's face it, because the Fed has never been audited we only receive the data they deem fit to publish. We know the government lies to us about inflation, unemployment, GDP, etc. Does anyone really believe the Fed is publishing true accounting numbers? I'm starting to suspect Bernanke has already begun the next round of quantitative easing.
Politically, QE is a hot potato and impossible to publicly announce. But there have been enough hints (the last FOMC minutes may have been the loudest) that it is clear Bernanke intends to print. Hey, we are in a currency war after all, and one can't win the war if you don't shoot your guns!
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Tuesday, September 04, 2012
How to Ride the Gold Wave and Minimize Risk / Commodities / Articles
By: Submissions
GoldSilverWorlds writes: Now that GLD has taken off like a rocket the last few days the question arises “how does one manage the risks?”. That being the risks of chasing a stock and sitting through a pullback right after one buys?
Ever get caught up in the moment only to see shortly thereafter the stock pulls back after you are in? Isn’t it at those times you wished you had just remained calm, cool and collected to enable you to get a better fill?
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Monday, September 03, 2012
The Direction of Silver Prices before QE Forever / Commodities / Financial Markets 2012
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The price of silver has moved up from $27.50 seen just a week ago to stage a test of the $31.00 level. Although technical traders may consider this market currently over bought, the fact remains that a bull market can stay over bought for quite a long time.
It will be interesting to look back on this rally that began in the wake of the Financial Times’ story about the CFTC’s lack of evidence and impending conclusion of its four year study into manipulation of the silver market.
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Monday, September 03, 2012
Silver Price History and "The Hunt Effect" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
History remembers the last nominal high in the price of silver before the more recent high of $49.77 seen in April of 2011 as an anomaly that was largely induced by the Hunt brothers' purported attempt to corner the market by buying large quantities of silver and silver futures to the point where they held rights to over half the global amount of deliverable silver.
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Monday, September 03, 2012
Gold Mines In South Africa See Strikes As Industrial Unrest Spreads / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,686.00, EUR 1,341.72 and GBP 1,061.65 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,657.75, EUR 1,319.03 and GBP 1,047.68 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $31.78/oz, €25.38/oz and £20.09/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,546.70/oz, palladium at $629.50/oz and rhodium at $1,025/oz.
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Monday, September 03, 2012
Central Bank Action "Good for Gold", ECB Bazooka Needed as Pressure on Spain Intensifies / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
SPOT MARKET gold prices hovered close to $1690 an ounce during Monday morning's London trading, close to five month highs hit after Friday's speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, in which he noted the US economic situation is "far from satisfactory".
"Central banks are still hurtling towards more cash-printing," one Hong Kong dealer told newswire Reuters Monday.
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Monday, September 03, 2012
The Gold price and the exponential growth of our Debt problems / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Alasdair_Macleod
Two Bloomberg correspondents reported on August 8 that the US Government’s unfunded liabilities rose by $11 trillion last year, “ten times larger than the official deficit”, and are now at an estimated $222 trillion. The authors base their estimates on figures supplied by the Congressional Budget Office. This makes talk about the “fiscal cliff”, as the Bush tax cuts come to an end, a secondary issue. Meanwhile in Germany the Constitutional Court will be told on 12 September that the bailout costs faced by Germany are €2 trillion with a further €1.7 trillion in the pipeline, compared with only €170 billion a year ago.
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Sunday, September 02, 2012
Silver Fractal Analysis Update / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldRunner
[Before reading this update on Fractal Silver, you might wish to skim through my recent public article, “Fractal Gold Review and Update” since it discusses key timing issues that this article is based upon.]The Fractal Silver Chart from the late 70’s is a bit different than today, mostly due to the effect that the deflationary psychology of the current period has had on Silver as a partly “economic metal.” This means that the chart of Silver has been much more volatile, especially in downside corrections compared to the late 70’s charts. The Silver parabola is a less fluid form than the Gold parabola with Silver making sharp vertical rises along the way. The Gold and Silver parabolas are driven by the flows of Dollar Inflation to Devaluation, yet big money and Central Banks mostly invest in Gold. This leaves Gold’s little sister, Silver, more prone to volatility and to speculation. This fact can create an advantage for Silver investors.
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Sunday, September 02, 2012
Gold Fractal Analysis Review "YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING, YET" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldRunner
The Fractal Gold chart work is a direct comparison of Gold, today, to the late 70’s Gold Parabola. Thus, “timing” is taken directly from the late 70’s cycle, with price targets created from a combination of the late 70’s Gold price and different technical analysis techniques. We developed a price target back in 2006/ 2007 for Gold to reach the $10,000 to $12,000 range during this Gold Bull. Anything above that range would mean that the “Stagflation” comparison to the late 70’s was exceeded and “Hyper-inflation” would become a real possibility. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Invstors Should Read Lenin to Understand the Markets / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: The_Gold_Report
China and India have always been crazy for gold and the yellow metal remains the choice store of value in those two countries, says Don Coxe, a strategic advisor to the BMO Financial Group. In an exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Coxe explains how demographic shifts are affecting the price of gold and delves into the logic of investing in gold as a long-term strategy. Coxe also draws an important lesson in economics from his reading of Lenin.
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Why Gold Doesn't Need the Fed / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Clif_Droke
Gold was a star performer during the month of August, outshining other assets in an impressive rally which took many investors by surprise. Many analysts attributed gold's strength to investors' expectations of another monetary rescue operation from the Federal Reserve. But as we'll see in this commentary, such an action is not only unlikely but unnecessary to gold's continued strength.