Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Gold Falls as Obama Calls for Gang of Six to Talk Turkey on Deficit Reduction / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ben_Traynor

U.S. DOLLAR prices to buy gold fell Wednesday morning London time, dropping below $1584 per ounce – a 1.5% drop from the previous day's all-time high – while stock and commodity markets continued to recover after losing ground for much of the last week.

US Treasury bonds dipped despite President Obama's endorsement of a deficit reduction plan crafted by a so-called "Gang of Six" US senators.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Gold to Rise on $14.3 Trillion U.S. Debt Limit Increase / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: GoldCore

Gold is trading at $1,587.56/oz, €1,115.72/oz and £983.31/oz.

Gold is flat in U.S. dollars and New Zealand dollars but marginally lower in most currencies today as increased risk appetite has seen risk assets rally despite poor fundamentals. Most Asian indices were higher, except the Chinese and Indian markets, and European indices have also risen.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The No. 1 Way to Profit as the Price of Gold Soars Into Record Territory / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Money_Morning

Peter Krauth writes: On Monday, debt fears on both sides of the Atlantic sent gold above the $1,600 level for the first time ever.

The yellow metal has risen steadily since the start of 2009, when it was trading at a bit less than $900 an ounce.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The Coming Gold and Silver Correction / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: J_W_Jones

“It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.”~ Ayrton Senna – Brazilian Race Car Driver ~

“Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.” ~ Sergei Bubka – World Pole Vault Record Holder ~ 

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Five Gold and Silver Precious Metals Scams to Avoid / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: GoldSilver

So perhaps you’ve decided to invest in gold and/or silver; but wait!  There are a few things you need to know before you begin your journey with precious metals.

At GoldSilver.com, we have spent years educating our customers on the virtues of investing in gold and silver, and we believe those who have made the choice to invest in precious metals, specifically silver and gold, are going to be on the winning side of a massive impending wealth transfer. But that doesn’t mean all precious metals investments are the same.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Buy Energy Stocks - On Sale Now! / Commodities / Oil Companies

By: The_Energy_Report

Marshall Berol and Craig Valdes are concentrating their focus on resource stocks in their Encompass Fund portfolio. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, they share their current thinking regarding the energy sector and give us the names of some stocks that are attractively priced now and that could do well as global energy demand grows. They remain very positive on the prospects for nuclear and see oil demand growing.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Juniors Plan Today for Tomorrow's Rare Earth Elements Demand / Commodities / Metals & Mining

By: Critical_Metals_Repo

The West isn't ready for an avalanche of rare earth elements—yet. But when the time comes, the junior miners that have mastered the art of location, mineralogy and metallurgy will be there to fill the demand gap. In this exclusive interview with The Critical Metals Report, Ahead of the Herd Editor Rick Mills points to some promising players in the light and heavy rare earth space.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Global Perspective on Critical Metals Investing / Commodities / Metals & Mining

By: Critical_Metals_Repo

"The best investments in the critical metals space," according to Technology Metals Research Founding Principal Jack Lifton, "are available in a form that small investors can buy or trade." In this Critical Metals Report exclusive, written on a plane high above Asia, Jack provides a truly global overview of the metals economy, zeroing in on the chief metals-related issues to emerge in the first decade of the 21st century.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Will Gold GLD and Silver SLV ETF's Continue to Correct? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: George_Maniere

There’s an old saying. “What goes around comes around.” Well today President Obama held a quick press conference and announced that the “Gang of Six” had presented him a compromise plan that he felt everyone could agree on. The market immediately spiked up on the news and gold and its baby brother silver did exactly what I thought it would do. It sold off. So what goes around comes around – just usually not that fast.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Gold Breakout or No Breakout, Short-term Correction Appears Likely / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Przemyslaw_Radomski

In general, gold market overview appears mixed according to PM Investors and it is obvious. Some say gold has miles to travel, other suggest gold may take a pause before next journey and some others say it’s time for gold to fall. Debates continue in blogosphere. Recently, one of our Subscribers has sent us a link to an online article about gold being ready to drop to $1,320. This article claims there will be a decline in the price of precious metals in the second half of 2011 and that the proliferation of gold ETFs will make the drop especially violent.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Selling Gold? Go Ahead / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Paul_Tustain

Gold priced too high? Don't mistake selling it for taking a profit...

YES, by all means sell gold today. Just don't be a schmuck and 'take a profit'.

That's supposed to be when you exit something volatile and revert to a stable store of value. But you'd hardly be doing that if you traded your gold for US Dollars, Euros, Yen or Pounds today.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Gold Reacts With "Big Yawn" to ECB Announcement / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Mike_Shedlock

Earlier today the ECB Caved in on "Temporary" Defaults and Collateral.

It is important to note that the ECB did not "allow" a default, rather the bond market forced the ECB to accept default. The stock market reacted as if the announcement meant something, but gold gave a big yawn.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Gold, Silver and Pension Funds Portfolio Diversification Myths / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Nick_Barisheff

Pension funds across North America are facing record shortfalls. Research shows that 33% of Canadian pension funds are struggling to meet liabilities(Figure 1); the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan funding shortfall, for example, ballooned to $17.1 billion in 2009, despite strong investment returns.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

ECB Caves in on Temporary Debt Defaults, Which Country Will be Next? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Mike_Shedlock

As Greek 2-year debt yields hit 39.15% the bond market finally forced the ECB's hand, and Trichet comes out looking foolish, not only on his "we say no to default" stance, even temporary defaults, but also on his ridiculous bluff repeated for the nth time just 2 days ago regarding the acceptance of Greek bonds as collateral.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Investing in Agribusiness: Will This Major Food Company Be Bought Out? / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities

By: Eric_McWhinnie

Ralcorp Holdings Inc. (NYSE:RAH) produces a variety of store brand foods that are sold under the individual labels of various grocery, mass merchandise, and drug store retailers. Their products include everything from Post Raisin Brand to NutCracker Mixed Nuts. In May, we discussed how Ralcorp’s share price had been sizzling, but wondered if it could maintain its rally. Recently, Ralcorp has been back in the news, but are shares popping?

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Is Gold Taking the Stairway To Heavenly Prices? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Eric_McWhinnie

It was a historic day for the financial markets on Monday. As the Dow (NYSE:DIA), S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY), and Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ) headed lower, one sector continued its rally. Precious metals (NYSE:DBP) such as gold (NYSE:GLD) and silver (NYSE:SLV) surged higher on Monday.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Gold Pulls Back, Rumors of Greek "Non Default" But Eurozone Still "Near Death" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Ben_Traynor

SPOT MARKET gold bullion prices dropped back to $1600 per ounce Tuesday morning in London – a 0.6% drop from yesterday's all-time high – while stock and commodity markets recovered some of the past week's losses as Europe looked ahead to this week's emergency EU summit.

US Treasury bonds dipped ahead of Tuesday's Congressional vote on making balanced federal budgets part of the Constitution.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Gold Price to Correct after Front Page Financial Times Article? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: GoldCore

Gold is trading at $1,604.10/oz, €1,132.20/oz and £995.66/oz.

Gold has fallen in most currencies today and is trading at USD 1,603, EUR 1,130, GBP 995 and CHF 1,315 per ounce. Gold is 0.3% higher in Swiss francs again today after the last two weeks of deepening turmoil saw gold rise in the Swiss franc.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

When Will the Gold Bull Market Turn Into a Mania? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011

By: Aftab_Singh

As our readers may know, we’re suckers for the theory that markets move in generational cycles. The basic idea is that the knee-jerk reaction is often the strongest one and that investors have a tendency to ‘stick to what they know’. The length of the prime of one generation’s career seems to be a suitable period of time for such ‘things that people know’ to become firmly lodged. Ironically, such lodging is a dire circumstance in a business that amounts to pseudo-futurology. 

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Gold and Commodities 2011 Halftime Report / Commodities / Commodities Trading

By: Frank_Holmes

Commodities don’t all perform in the same way. In any given year, a particular commodity will go gangbusters and outperform the group. However, that commodity will typically come back to Earth and underperform the following year or the year after that. This is why active management is important when investing in commodities. Active managers can benefit from rotating from winners to laggards or by investing in the companies which produce, farm or mine commodities most effectively.