Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Rise to 20 Percent, After Fukushima / Commodities / Renewable Energy

By: OilPrice_Com

The worldwide implications for nuclear power advocates in light of the 11 March disaster at Japan's Daichi Fukushima nuclear complex, battered first by an earthquake and a subsequent tsunami, are slowly unfolding.

Nations committed to nuclear power are being subjected to a relentless PR barrage by nuclear construction firms, who stand to lose billions if current contracts are suspended or, even worse, cancelled.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Silver SLV ETF Coil Should Resolve to Upside / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Mike_Paulenoff

Increasingly, my pattern work in the iShares Silver Trust (SLV) is telling me that all of the action off of the Aug 22 recovery high at 42.30 through today's low at 39.21 is taking the form of a large coil that is positioned in the upper 40% of the entire advance from the May corrective low at 31.55.

If my pattern work proves accurate, then today's low should represent the latest coordinate in the coil -- and as such should not be violated if the integrity of the pattern is to be preserved.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Gold False Comparison To 2008 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Jim_Willie_CB

Whenever it suits Team Titanic from the increasingly tense helm, more phony comparisons are trotted out in baseless news stories posing as legitimate analysis. The latest propaganda plank is that the current financial climate, worse by the week, resembles 2008 and therefore bodes badly for the Gold & Silver prices. The implicit inference has no basis. In the final months of that fateful 2008 year, when Lehman Brothers served as the flagship going down in icy waters, writing the epitaph that marked the historic death event for the US banking industry, not yet recognized, the precious metal price fell by a huge amount in a liquidity drain amidst a grand crisis.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

The Silver Siren: Reversion To Reality / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Rob_Kirby

According to the World Gold Council – the overall level of global mine production is relatively stable. Supply has averaged approximately 2,497 tonnes per year over the last several years. 2500 tonnes is equal to 80.4 million troy ozs.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Manipulation and Short-Term Instability of the Gold Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Bob_Chapman

August was sure a barnburner and we believe that was a prelude for an even wilder September. How often do you see gold fall $200.00 in 3 days and recover $187 in 6 days? In our 53 years of involvement in this sector we have never seen anything like this. This shows you what government manipulation is all about. Get used to it, this is what living in a corporatist fascist society is all about.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Gold Bull Market Over With Double Top? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: David_Banister

A few weeks ago I penned a public article and private forecast for my subscribers calling for a major correction in Gold being due. 72 hours after my forecast, Gold had dropped a stunning $208 per ounce in 3 days catching most by surprise. Why did I forecast a top in Gold then? Why did Gold rally back to new highs recently? Is the Gold Bull Market now over? Let’s see if I can answer those questions with some level of logic below.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Is the Swiss Franc to Euro Peg Bullish for Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Eric_McWhinnie

On Tuesday, gold (NYSE:GLD) reached a new all-time nominal high of $1921.15 before falling back below $1900. Silver (NYSE:SLV) futures for December delivery retreated 2.8% to close at $41.86. Even though gold and silver suffer pullbacks from time to time, the bullish case for precious metals (NYSE:DBP) continues to build. Yesterday, the Swiss National Bank decided to surprise global markets and give investors another reason to buy gold and silver.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Gold, Deflation and Krugman's Flawed Economic Analysis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Adrian_Ash

Paul Krugman's changed his stance on gold. He's still wrong though…

LOOK AT THIS! It seems some people have been waiting to buy gold until Paul Krugman advised it!

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Gold Plunges as Global Currency Wars Resume and Markets Digest German Decision / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: GoldCore

Gold is trading at USD 1,843.60, EUR 1,314.10 , GBP 1,155.30, CHF 1,584.10 and JPY 142,390 per ounce. Gold closed marginally lower in all currencies yesterday except for the Swiss franc which fell nearly 7% against gold and other fiat currencies.

Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,844.00, EUR 1,311.99, GBP 1,153.44 per ounce. Gold fixed lower in all currencies (USD 1,891.00, EUR 1,330.75, GBP 1,172.86 per ounce).

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Gold Falls, Green Light Given to future Euro Bailouts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ben_Traynor

U.S. DOLLAR gold bullion prices dropped to around $1833 an ounce Wednesday morning in London – 4.5% off yesterday's intraday record high.

Stocks and commodities rose and government bonds fell after Germany's highest court ruled the country's bailout policies are not in breach of its constitution.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Crude Oil Explosive Upside on Supply Decrease Plus Demand Increase / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: The_Energy_Report

Global Resource Investments Founder and Chairman Rick Rule is a self-described energy bull. In this special Energy Report from his latest web broadcast, he highlights the global macro-trends that will drive energy prices—oil, natural gas, uranium and alternative energy way up in the coming years.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Electricity Post Post-Carbon Future / Commodities / Energy Resources

By: Andrew_McKillop

VANITY TECH OR ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE ?
Back as February 2009, Lord John Mogg of the UK, president of the European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas (ERGEG) charged by the European Commission (EC) with outlining further electric power system integration in Europe and the regulatory environment for this, said the winds are turning for European energy regulators. Since that time the facing winds are blowing very hard for European debt, deficits, economic growth and monetary stability, and a lot slower for high cost windfarm projects. This however remains the main hope for Low Carbon energy, with world windpower capacity attaining about 200 GW in early 2011. However, while wind itself is endless, natural and free, producing electricity with it is not: especially with offshore windfarms, capital costs can reach the fantastic level of around 7 500 euro per kiloWatt ($ 10 000/ kW), making windpower even more expensive, if less dangerous than nuclear power for electricity supply.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Gold, is Safe Haven, Not Francs as Switzerland to Buy Foreign Currency in Unlimited Quantities / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Mike_Shedlock

In a stunning morning press release, Swiss National Bank sets minimum exchange rate at CHF 1.20 per euro

The current massive overvaluation of the Swiss franc poses an acute threat to the Swiss economy and carries the risk of a deflationary development.

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Is China Buying Gold to Challenge the U.S. Dollar? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Eric_McWhinnie

“International supervision over the issue of U.S. dollars (NYSE:UUP) should be introduced and a new, stable and secured global reserve currency may also be an option to avert a catastrophe caused by any single country.” -China’s official news agency Xinhua

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Swiss Franc Collapses Against the Dollar and Gold as Central Bank Plans to Debase Currency / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: GoldCore

Currency markets have seen massive volatility this morning after the Swiss National Bank decision to fix the Swiss franc to the euro.

Gold is trading at USD 1,899.50, EUR 1,339.10, GBP 1,177.30, CHF 1,611.10 (up from CHF 1,486.50 yesterday) and JPY 146,350 per ounce. Gold is down 0.18% in dollar terms and strong physical demand continues at these levels.

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Gold Falls as Eurozone Banks Worry about Counterparty Risks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ben_Traynor

U.S. DOLLAR prices to buy gold fell to a low of $1877 an ounce on Tuesday morning in London – a 2.3% drop from their new record high set hours earlier – while stocks and the Euro rallied after the Swiss National Bank announced plans to peg its currency to the Euro.

Yields on 10-Year US Treasury bonds hit an all-time low of 1.97% – while yields on Italian and Greek debt moved the other way.

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Investing in Farmland for Healthy Profits / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities

By: Money_Morning

Larry D. Spears writes: If Mark Twain was talking about investing in farmland when he suggested "buy land - they're not making anymore," then he knew more about finance than he's credited with.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago just reported that prime farmland prices in the heart of the U.S. grain belt (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin) - were up 17% in the second quarter compared to 2010, the biggest year-over-year increase since 1977.

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

140 Years Of Silver Price Volatility / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Professor_Emeritus

An interview was published on July 6, 2011, with the title Eric Sprott - Paper Markets Are a Joke: Prepare for Bullion Prices to Go Supernova. Interviewer: Chris Martenson, Ph.D. (See: www.financialsense.com/node/5777) One of the questions Martenson asked was gold versus silver as an investment. Sprott came out on the side of silver that should trade at the hallowed gold/silver price ratio of 16 to 1. His argument is that gold and silver coins are destined to come back and circulate, so while the gold coinage will take care of large, the silver coinage will take care of small purchases - just as they did when the monetary system of the United States was established at the turn of the 18th century.

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Silver and Silver Stocks Forming Bullish Cup and Handle Pattern / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne

A cup and handle pattern is a bullish continuation pattern that represents a period of consolidation followed by an eventual breakout, which is the continuation of the previous trend. Typically these patterns last months and not weeks or days. Cup and handle patterns also entail precise price targets. To find the price target, one measures the distance from the top to the bottom of the cup and then adds the distance to the top of the cup. In some cases analysts can use a logarithmic scale though its best to use a arithmetic scale. 

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Unseemly Scrabble for Libya's Post-Gaddafi Oil Assets Underway / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: OilPrice_Com

While NATO members, led by France, piously proclaimed at the onset of their military offensive in Libya that their concerns were solely humanitarian, a covert tussle to gain a commanding lead in developing the country's energy riches in light of Colonel Gaddafi's departure is well underway.