Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
High Gold Prices Raise Old Mines / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: The_Gold_Report
Dramatic rises in metals prices over the past 2 years could bring 10 or more past-producing mining camps back to life. In this Gold Report exclusive, MineralFields Group's Engineer and Investment Analyst Ron Wortel shares how he finds promising gold juniors working these mines and structures tax-advantaged, flow-through investments to finance Canadian resource development.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Gold Investors Don’t Fear a Pullback in Prices / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Frank_Holmes
The S&P credit agency sent shockwaves through the global financial system on Monday when it issued a warning on U.S. debt and changed its outlook on the U.S. sovereign credit rating from “stable” to “negative.” This sent markets lower and the prices of commodities such as oil rocketing back above $110 per barrel and both gold and silver to new highs.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The Coming Junior Gold and Silver Stock Eruption / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Q1_Publishing
The junior market is on the verge of blowing up like a “Coke geyser.”
If you’re not one of the 13 million views of what happens when Mentos are dropped into a bottle of Diet Coke, you should know it creates an eruption of foam reaching as high as 20 feet.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Charting the Course to $7 Gas / Commodities / Gas - Petrol
By: MISES
J. Kevin Meaders writes: Let's go back to the beginning of the current economic crisis — yes, it is still a crisis for many millions of Americans who lost their jobs, ruined their credit, filed for bankruptcy, lost their homes, and lost their lifestyle. Shanty towns have popped up all over America, though rarely gaining media exposure.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Parabolic Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: John_Hampson
It's the hot topic of the moment, and everyone is offering an opinion, so I'll be succinct. The question I am asking myself is, do I want to take partial profits on silver here?
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sell Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Appears Scotty got it wrong again. We said to beam us up, and he beamed us back. All of a sudden we seem to have returned to 2008. Perhaps, though, we should not be so tough on Scotty. The Federal Reserve had a hand on the controls too, continuing the longest running stretch of asset price distortions in all of history. Think of 97-year-old sports team with one winning season, 1953.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Real Interest Rates Explain the Gold Price Perfectly…Too Perfectly? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Andrew_Butter
The latest idea coming out of the “Hedge-Fund” camp that I saw to explain the recent meteoric climb in the price of gold as expressed in US dollars is “Real” interest rates.
Leaving aside what is “real” and what is illusion for a moment, if you take a timeline of the US 10-Year Treasury yield and subtract the published CPI number you get to one (of many) estimates of “real” interest rates. Then you cumulate that number, you can build a reasonably decent “explanatory” model to explain the price of gold, since say January 2002.
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
Geopolitics and the World's Gold Holdings / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Michel_Chossudovsky
Both the US dollar and the Euro currency systems are in crisis. During a period of waning currencies, where the value of money (in paper and/or electronic form) is tumbling, the strategic control over gold reserves and gold production is of paramount importance.
The issue is not only who controls the stock of central bank gold reserves, but who, namely which countries, control the production of mine gold.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Silver Forecast $52 to $56 by Mid 2011 Update / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldRunner
Back on February 18th I wrote an editorial showing that Silver could rocket up to $52 to $56 by mid-year. At the time of the writing Silver was sitting a little above $32 on the price chart. The original chart work was based off of the fractal chart work I do with Silver from previous fractal time periods. So far the rise in Silver appears to be right on track for our expected targets to be approached into mid-year. I will post a link to the original article, below, for your perusal.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Where Next for Gold,Silver and the Stock Market SP500 Index? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: David_Banister
The market action in both the precious metals complex and the equities markets has been moving in clearly defined Fibonacci and Elliott Wave patterns for quite some time now. All of the recent peaks and valleys in both areas can be clearly demarcated with Fibonacci retracements and crowd behavioral patterns both in advance and in hindsight. I’ve written about this phenomenon numerous times publicly and every week for my subscribers as well.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Silver Black Swan if Rampant Speculation is Not Reigned In / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Dian_L_Chu
If you think the crude oil market has gone totally out of control in the past month or so, observe the Silver. The Silver market has basically gone parabolic the week of April 17, going from $41.75 on April 15th to $46.69 on April 21st--a 12% move in 5 trading days, topping off the move with a 5% move on Thursday (See Chart).
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Why Bank and Debt Crises are Helping the Gold and Silver Prices / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
Some months back we pointed out that in their present form, banks had become the arteries and veins of the financial worlds with central banks the heart. Unfortunately, banks are driven solely by the profit motive. As they grew into every aspect of people's financial lives, they failed to take on the corresponding social responsibilities that they came with it.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
What's with $1,500 Gold and $42 Silver? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: The_Gold_Report
As gold and silver continue their spectacular rise, The Gold Report checked in with Midas Letter Publisher and Editor James West to get his take on the situation. James, always strongly opinionated, sees this as the beginning of a global revolution that could result in long-term opportunities for gold and silver juniors.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Gold Investment Opportunities Emerge in the Americas / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: The_Gold_Report
From Quebec, Canada to Sonora, Mexico, House Mountain Partners Founder Chris Berry constantly uncovers new opportunities in the Americas. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Chris outlines the geopolitical changes that are driving renewed interest in areas considered too risky or not profitable enough in the past.
The Gold Report: Investing in junior mining companies across the Americas requires balancing risk and reward. What has changed in countries like Colombia, where violence and corruption hampered investment in the past, that make it worth considering investing in gold and nickel companies today?
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Silver Crash 2006 vs Silver Today, Does it look Familiar? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Submissions
Willem Weytjens writes: First of all, here is an update of a chart I posted 3 weeks ago…
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Silver Shorts Feel the Burn / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Clif_Droke
Silver has stolen the spotlight among investors in recent days after surging nearly $50/oz. Lost in all the commotion, however, are the wildly disparate rumors accompanying silver's rally. It's hard to believe that it has been only a week since a widely circulated story concerning a large hedge fund which supposedly made a "gargantuan" bet against silver. This story, which smacked of being planted by speculative interests, was circulated by some otherwise reputable financial publications.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Gold, What to Watch out for in Early May / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
We have written before that institutional investors are going to wake up one day and realize that they need to buy gold for their portfolios. Well, that's beginning to happen.
This week the Texas teachers’ pension fund, one of the largest college endowments, announced that it has placed 5% of its assets in gold bullion, nearly $1 billion's worth, in excess of 650,000 ounces at today’s prices. It is interesting to note that the fund chose to take physical possession of the bullion rather than buy it through a gold ETF.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Lease Rates Show Greater Silver Interest / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
In December of 2010, we looked at silver lease rates to see how a recent spike might affect metals. Then, it was out of the norm to see a spike in the lease rate, which often corresponded with a bid to borrow silver for the short-term. Today, silver lease rates are starting to normalize above zero, which means that demand to borrow silver in the short-term is becoming a constant, and that investors are now starting to price in recent history into the future.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Impact of Chinese and Indians Climbing the Protein Ladder / Commodities / Food Crisis
By: Richard_Mills
Over the next fifty years, as we add another 4.5 billion people to the world's population, global demand for food will increase almost 70% if population growth predictions are correct.
Already approximately 1 billion people go to bed hungry each night. Somewhere in the world someone starves to death every 3.6 seconds - most are children under the age of five.
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Cornering the Silver Market is Impossible at Current Prices / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Submissions
SilverDoctors write : Rumors of a corner of silver in process have been swirling overnight.
A cornering of silver by a billionaire is in process? Really? Here’s the definition of Cornering of the Market from Wikipedia, “In finance, to corner the market is to purchase enough of a particular stock, commodity, or other asset to allow the price to be manipulated, by analogy to the general business jargon where a company described as having "cornered the market" has a very high market share. The one attempting to corner a market hopes to gain control of enough of the supply of the commodity to be able to set the price for it.”
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