Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, June 02, 2011
The Fukushima Cloud's (Green, Not Silver) Lining / Commodities / Renewable Energy
By: OilPrice_Com
The ongoing tragedy of Japan's Daichi Fukshima nuclear complex will prove to be a boon for renewable energy in Japan, and astute investors should begin carefully to follow Tokyo's new priorities.
Before the March 11 twin disasters of a massive earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami, about 30 percent of Japan's electricity was generated by nuclear power, and Tokyo had ambitious plans to raise its market share to 50 percent over the next two decades, with renewable accounting for 20 percent, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan told journalists earlier last month.
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Thursday, June 02, 2011
Comex Silver Bullion Default on Sharp 38% Drop in Inventories / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Spot gold and silver prices rose slightly again this morning after hitting a one-month high yesterday as equity markets internationally came under selling pressure. The Moody's downgrade of Greece and worryingly poor US economic data again pushed investors to seek the safe haven of bullion. Gold reached new record nominal highs in sterling yesterday (£945.62/oz) as the pound fell on concerns about the UK economy.
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Gold Price Rises as Stock Markets Fall / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ben_Traynor
THE U.S. DOLLAR gold price rose to $1544 per ounce Thursday morning – up 5.5% from May's low – while stock markets, commodities and US Treasuries all fell after worse-than-expected US economic news and a further ratings downgrade for Greece.
"We are still of the opinion that the current advance will fizzle out ahead of its all-time high at $1577.60 in the days to come," says Axel Rudolph, Commerzbank's senior technical analyst, adding that the seasonal nature of gold price movements means the odds favor a retracement.
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Thursday, June 02, 2011
Chinese Demand For Metals Expands / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Anthony_David
China’s demand for resources is constantly increasing and Chinese companies have been bidding and acquiring overseas companies over the last few years. China has been importing all its oil from 1993 and last year, Chinese oil companies spent over $30 billion on deals overseas. In the metals and minerals sectors, China became a net importer only recently and last year spent about $4.5 billion on mining deals overseas. As if to make up for lost time, Chinese companies are in a rush to acquire metal and mineral resources overseas.
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Thursday, June 02, 2011
Silver a Strategic Metal? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Anthony_David
The global demand for silver has exceeded annual production since 1990. In fact, demand has grown by close to 26% since 1995. The demand for silver originates from both industrial and investment sources and that gives the metal a high potential for growth.
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Thursday, June 02, 2011
Is the Yukon Gold Rush Over-Hyped? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: The_Gold_Report
Yukon explorers are just getting started, says Jim Mustard, vice president of investment banking, mining, at Vancouver-based PI Financial. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he shares several of the Yukon companies he believes have the potential to produce significant returns for investors.
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Silver Selloff Investor Lessons to Learn / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
Silver’s correction from nearly-$50 to $34 was wild; it was the kind of market movement that hardly allowed investors to digest what was coming as it happened. A month after wild market activity, investors who have taken the time to uncover what happened in the market may have realized three key elements of the selloff.
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Thursday, June 02, 2011
Currency Market Volatility Should Support Gold and Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jeb_Handwerger
Global debt issues combined with weakening US economic data has reignited the quest to protect capital. Investors are seeking the ultimate safe havens in the US dollar (UUP), long term treasuries (TLT), gold (GLD), and silver (AGQ) in order to protect their wealth from the onslaught of currency instability and US economic weakness.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Bear Raids Fail to Dent Gold Flight to Safety on Breaking Market Confidence / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jesse
More bear raids today but they failed to detract from the flight to safety into gold as the precious metal significantly diverged from stocks, at least for today. Silver, being more correlated with industrial activity, felt the slump in stocks a bit harder.
Although the stock market decline is steep, and tied to bad economic results which were ignored during the month end paint job, it does have the smell of a wash and rinse within the trend channel, on manageably light volumes. This magic lantern show and churning is how the big trading desks make their money and their nearly perfect trading records. An intraday chart of the SP futures are below.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Silver Eagle Coin Sales Best Since 1986 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Gold and silver are lower today despite equities being mixed and Eurozone debt markets exhibiting signs of stress again with Portuguese and Greek bonds being sold with yields rising again despite the latest “bail out” speculation.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Gold Rally Dented by the Return of Risk Appetite / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ben_Traynor
THE SPOT MARKET price of gold bullion dropped overnight, before beginning Wednesday morning London time by trading in a tight range around $1532 per ounce – up 1.3% from the start of last week – while stocks and commodities were flat.
The Euro held steady above $1.44 following reports that a new bailout for Greece could be agreed by the end of the week.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Gold and Silver Shares Retest of 2010 Breakout Almost Complete / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
At the start of the year we wrote about what we could expect from the gold stocks and juniors over the first half of the year. All of these markets experienced significant multi-year breakouts in late 2010. This year called for a retest of those breakouts before the next advance would begin. We believed that these markets would spend much of 2011 retesting the breakouts and that markets would later be in position for an unabated advance into 2012 and beyond. We wanted to provide an update on.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Fiat Currency or Gold?, Eurozone / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ian_R_Campbell
If you follow the price of physical gold then I recommend - in the strongest of terms - that you read Another Volcker Moment at Hand? An Appraisal of $1500 Gold by John Hathaway of Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. - reading time 6 minutes.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
According to Economists, Gold is Perfectly Useless / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Paul_Tustain
Would you – or China – rather own gold 8 years from now, or US Treasury bonds...?
ON THE LETTERS' page of The Economist last week, Nils Sandberg from Cambridge University's Judge Business School presented a common argument against gold's current value.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Gold priced in Euro and the HUI-index / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Willem_Weytjens
Many gold bulls argue that gold remains very strong in various currencies such as the Euro.
Let’s have a look at it:
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Gold Price Remains Flat / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE WHOLESALE price to buy gold continued trading in a tight range Tuesday morning around $1538 per ounce – just over 2% off its all-time high – following a flat day Monday as the US and UK had official holidays.
Stock and commodity markets meantime rose sharply – while US Treasury bonds fell – after news of a possible Eurozone agreement on a new financial aid package for Greece.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
UN Warns of U.S. Dollar Collapse, Brutal Month for Silver Ends / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Gold has fallen against the euro and most currencies but is 0.2% higher in U.S. dollars and nearly 1% higher in yen terms as the American and Japanese currencies have come under selling pressure. Gold remains near record nominal highs in all major currencies which shows that markets are concerned about inflation and concerns about the future of major currencies.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The Krill Oil Stocks Boom is Real / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: Q1_Publishing
There’s a new type of oil that’s causing a major stir in the markets.
This oil boom has nothing to do with crude oil or energy though. But it still has the potential to be just as profitable.
I’m talking about krill oil.
Krill are tiny shrimp-like crustaceans. They are usually between one and five centimeters long. They are found in extremely cold water like the frigid waters of the northern Pacific and offshore Antarctica.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Gold and Silver, What to Do if You Listened to Top Pickers and Sold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Peter_Degraaf
"The great Khan (Chinese ruler), causes the bark of trees, made into something like paper, to pass for money all over his country." ...Marco POLO, (1254 - 1324 Traveling explorer from Venice).
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Silver, CRB Summer Trend Forecast, Goldman Sachs Bullish on Commodities, Should You Be Worried? / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Clive_Maund
In the case of Richard Russell the answer is certainly not. This is because Richard Russell is right most of the time, especially over the longer-term outlook, despite, or perhaps because of being an octogenarian (in his 80's). Of course nobody is right all of the time, not even Maund, so he could be wrong and so could I. Russell's scenario for the Summer is set out in this brief but interesting blog on King World News. With regards to Goldman Sachs the answer is a little more complicated. With them it is crucially important to distinguish between their clients and the world at large which they sell stuff to.