Category: Gold & Silver 2009
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Marc Faber Clarifies Gold Outlook / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Over the last week there have been a several different reports regarding Dr. Marc Faber’s comments about his short- and long-term outlook for gold.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Gold Targets $1,200/oz by Year End on Central Bank Diversification? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Gold touched an all time high again yesterday at $1,141/oz, closing 2% higher on last Friday's close. Gold is currently trading at $1,132/oz and is higher again in euro and GBP terms - trading at €761/oz and £673/oz respectively.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Jim Rogers Says Buy Gold Bullion Not Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Alix Steel writes: Jim Rogers, renowned global commodities investor and author, says gold prices will hit $2,000 (U.S.) in a decade.
Gold prices have risen 20 per cent in the past year, recently testing a new high of $1,133.50. With strong speculative fund buying, a weakening U.S. dollar and inflation fears, investing in gold is a popular trend as the precious metal becomes an alternative asset class.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Gold Hard Money Wins Out! / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
They called it “a relic of the past.” They described its last major bull market surge as an “anomaly.” They said it was a dinosaur of an investment, never to return to the arena of modern finance.
Even The Wall Street Journal recently said it’s an investment that pays no interest or dividends and implied that owning it was as good as having a lump of coal in your backyard.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Gold On the Fast Track Toward $1,200? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Well, the long-expected retest and subsequent breakout of ‘$1,000 Gold’ has finally occurred, with the rally taking the cash price of the metal to the north side of the $1,100 per ounce level in relatively short order. The big question now, of course, is this – does Gold have enough investor interest behind it to push it to the next significant price level, $1,200? Let’s examine a long-term chart for cash Gold to see if we can find out if Gold can reach that price target before correcting again.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Gold $5000 By End 2010 on Monetary Debauchment / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
THE PRICE OF GOLD retreated from its seventh new record high in 11 sessions early Tuesday, dipping 1.3% from Monday's late top as world stock markets also fell for only the fourth time in November so far.
Crude oil fell and the US Dollar bounced on the forex market after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke spoke of a "Strong Dollar" in his annual speech to the Economics Club of New York.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Silver About to Explode Higher? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Most Gold bulls are silver bulls. The 1970s is the reason why and because inflation that occurs when a secular commodity bull cycle is in effect tends to flow into both precious metals. I have been less than wildly bullish on silver lately.
I own some physical silver but hold much more Gold. My concern is simple. In past deflationary cycles, Gold has done well but silver not as well. Since I favor deflation over inflation for this cycle, I heavily weighted myself towards Gold and only hold a little silver. I even made the stupid mistake of shorting silver a few months ago and had my a$$ handed to me.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
U.S. Dollar Trend to Determine Next Trend for Gold, Stocks and Other Markets / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
The dollar was down 0.69% for the week, closing at 75.23. Below is the daily UUP chart, which shows the dollar attempting to carve out a short term bottom. It remains to be seen if it can muster the needed resolve.
The dollar has been falling relentlessly since March. Its first resistance area is at 23. If the dollar can break and hold above 23 then the other Fib retracement levels may come into play. Short term rates will be the key to the dollar's direction.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Gold Price Going Parabolic / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Gold is in the headlines right now because of India’s announcement to buy half the announced IMF sale, and possibly more. But this is not why gold advanced so strongly yesterday. It blew past previous highs because we are in a significant cycle down time for equities right now, and the perception is if stocks are not to follow the natural path in this regard, authorities will need to hyperinflate. Conveniently then, the dollar has reversed lower because of this, which is supporting equities and altering the crash signatures in the trade.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Can Precious Metals Keep on Flying? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Are you sold on gold? The precious metal outperformed every major equity index in the world in 2008. The question is, can gold—and other precious metals—keep on flying? Or would buying today be buying high and selling low?Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, November 16, 2009
Gold at New Record Highs, as U.S. Dollar Slump Continues / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
More of the same... spot gold prices continue to climb to new all-time highs, while the dollar index continues to slump just below 75.00 (which my work argues is part of a developing intermediate term bottoming pattern that will be completed during the remainder of 2009, ahead of a powerful recovery rally period).
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Gold's Rise "Relentless" as US Monetary Policy Attacked in Beijing & Tokyo / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
THE PRICE OF GOLD leapt to new all-time highs for Dollar investors at the start of Asian trading on Monday, rising further to a new record Gold Fix of $1128.75 an ounce mid-morning in London.
Commodities, stocks and government bonds all rose alongside, pushing London's FTSE100 share index to new 2009 highs above 5360.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Central Banks to be Gold Net Buyers as Risk Rises / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Gold has made a determined break to the upside this morning trading as high as $1,133/oz. In the last 52 weeks gold has now risen 52.13% in dollar terms and 31% in euro terms.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Gold Is Busting Out All Over / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
The gold stocks caught on fire over the past fortnight. They have lagged behind the metal in relative strength, but, since they are more volatile than the metal, bigger profits are the result. For example, gold is well above its early September levels, but the XAU and the HUI have only broken above their corresponding levels just last week.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Gold Long Run on Route to $2,050 via $1,575 / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Boy, you go away for a few days and all hell breaks loose. When last I looked gold was looking weak. Now, three weeks later it’s more than $60 higher. Where to from here?
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Silvers Paradoxical Performance Relative to Gold, Strength With Weakness / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
The performance of silver this year relative to gold has been paradoxical - on the one hand it has outperformed gold, while on the other it has yet to make new highs. The explanation for this behaviour is of course the fact that silver got trashed last year during the general market meltdown, when it dropped in percentage terms much more than gold, and thus this year it has had much more ground to make up. This brings us immediately to the important issue of why silver has underperformed gold so markedly in recent weeks, and what this implies. As we will soon see the explanation is actually rather simple.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Gold Short-term Overbought, Longterm Parabolic Bullish / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
On longer-term charts gold looks great here as it accelerates away from its recently completed 20-month consolidation pattern. The prospect is for a powerful, steep multi-month advance, punctuated by mostly brief periods of consolidation. In the last update we examined the long-term charts to divine the big picture and as this has not changed since, we will in this update look at the shorter-term charts to consider the immediate outlook as gold is now overbought, and also pay attention to the dollar and euro, which are on the cusp of big moves that obviously have important implications for all markets.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Gold Momentum's Picking Up Dramatically / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Although "quantitative easing" (QE) may be propping up the U.S. economy for the time being, it solves nothing. That's how Eric Sprott, Chief Executive Officer & Portfolio Manager of Sprott Asset Management and Chairman of Sprott Money Ltd., sees it. It's not just that QE shoves problems from the private sector into the public sector. It's worse than that, because as Eric tells The Gold Report readers, QE is "just debasing the currency which will eventually lead to hyperinflation." One upside though: "You can just feel the momentum in gold—it's picking up dramatically" and so too are prospects for a plethora of little-known small and mid-cap gold stocks.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Greenspan On Systematic Gold Market Intervention / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Translation of the article for the International Precious Metals & Commodities Fair in Munich, November 6 through 7, 2009
Since August 5, 1993 there has been systematic intervention in the gold market by American financial institutes with the objective of preventing an increase in the price of gold or at least of mitigating its rise. The intervention is supposed to support the bond market and the dollar as well as ease inflation expectations and the mood of crisis as the case may be.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Gold Price 2010 Forecast $1,500 and Seasonal Influences on Precious Metals / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Madison Avenue Research Group's outlook for gold and silver is bullish. Our sentiments echo John Licata, Chief Investment Strategist at the energy and metals independent research and advisory service Blue Phoenix. Last year Licata wrote a note to his clients telling them gold was going to hit $1200 this year - a bold prediction at the time yet stunningly accurate in retrospect. On BNN this week Licata said he is still in the process of formulating targets for 2010 but did say he "could see gold going North of $1,500 next year”.
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