Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Silver Price Suppression: How, Why and Effect / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Rob_Kirby
This paper is written as a response to market observers who opine, “how can the price of precious metals be suppressed when their prices have empirically gone up 4 fold and more over the past 10 years?”
Monday, March 28, 2011
Will This Gold Breakout Be Authentic? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Jeb_Handwerger
Physical demand for gold and silver is strong as investors seek protection of wealth against uncertainty in the Middle East. It has already been reported that Col. Qaddafi has been a wise gold investor, preparing for this crisis by hoarding a large amount of the precious metal to fund his military and to hedge against economic sanctions. Just like he's been hoarding precious metals, many throughout the Middle East are trying to sell their assets and seek out the shelter of safe havens. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 28, 2011
Gold and Silver Fall as Arab Turmoil Quickly Resolves / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD slipped 1.3% in Asian and early London trade on Monday, pulling back to a 6-session low of $1411 per ounce as global stock markets slipped and the US Dollar rose on the FX market.
Silver prices dropped 2.1% to trade beneath $36.50 per ounce, a 3-session low.
Monday, March 28, 2011
After 40 years of Nuclear Passion, It Hurts / Commodities / Nuclear Power
By: OilPrice_Com
For 40 years I've written about nuclear power, defended it and believed, as I still do, that it offers the best signpost to a great future; to what Churchill called the "sunlit uplands"; in short, utopia.
I regard electricity as one of mankind's great achievements, saving people from the menial, painful drudgery that marks daily existence without it. Growing up in Africa, I'd see men and women walking miles, many miles, barefoot across the savanna, looking for a few pieces of wood to burn for cooking and hot water.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Gold Record High Fuelled by China and Asian Demand / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Gold and silver have fallen in Asian and early European trading, despite global uncertainty leading to weakness in equity and bond markets. Support is likely to come from eurozone debt concerns, geopolitical risk and the deepening nuclear crisis in Japan - the true extent of which remains unacknowledged.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Gold and Silver Rally Lacks Momentum / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Merv_Burak
The precious metals had a great week, so why is the momentum of these moves so lacking in strength? Speculators who can move prices seem not yet to be convinced that gold stocks will continue zooming into ever higher ground. Is there peace in the oil fields or something?
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Salivating at the Upside Potential of the Gold Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Richard_Daughty
Not long ago, as I recall, a pension fund in some foreign country, one of those Scandinavian ones I think, was ordered to invest no more than about 3% of its custody assets in gold, meaning that the fund had too much gold, and to sell part of its gold holdings in order to comply.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Market Volatility Creates Resource Stocks Opportunity / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Gold_Report
The terrible tragedy in Japan is shifting markets worldwide. Mike Kachanovsky, a consultant to both resource companies and institutional investors, believes the volatility has created a finite opportunity to scoop up resource stocks on the cheap. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Mike explains what impact the devastation could play to the performance of rare earth companies, as well as how to navigate discounted stocks to avoid the duds.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Gold No Breakout So Far, Silver Hits Strong Resistance / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
There are so many news items affecting precious metals, especially gold, these days. The precious metals glittered in their roles as havens as euro-zone debt worries resurfaced increasing the anxiety among market participants already jittery about $106 oil, the fighting in Libya, protestors killed in Syria and the nuclear crisis in Japan.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Gold Bubble: Written in the Stars / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
Oh lordy! Gold investing is being tipped in tabloid horoscopes...Sell!
"ARE YOU available for an interview this afternoon? I'd like to discuss the possibility that we're in a gold bubble!"
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Gold Stocks Valuations / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Zeal_LLC
Gold stocks aren’t feeling the love these days. They have merely been drifting sideways since their latest interim high in early December. Considering gold is edging up to new nominal all-time highs, and silver is surging, many traders find this lack of gold-stock responsiveness troubling. Is there a fundamental problem with this sector today? If so, it will show up in gold-stock valuations.
Friday, March 25, 2011
What's Really Driving the Gold Price? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
Gold attracts tremendous emotion from people and it has always done so. It manages to bring out the extremes in investors, reporters, governments. It's either hated or loved. Copper isn't, nickel isn't and coal isn't. You can call it a commodity, a barbarous relic, money or a wealth preserver. Whatever title you use, someone will react. As a metal, it has certain qualities that other metals don't have, but that's not what produces these reactions. It's not even its price rise over the last decade that causes the noise. In fact, it's not about gold at all. Governments have in turn loved it, hated it and now are beginning to love it again. It's what it's purported to represent that causes all the fuss. Just look at the reasons put forward by some as to why it's rising in price and you get the picture.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Gold Sets New Standard at $1,447 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: LiveCharts
Gold prices soared to a new intraday record high during Thursday’s (March 24) trade on the New York NYMEX. The precious metal traded as high as $1,447 before falling to a closing price of $1,430.80.
Wednesday’s closing price in New York established the new record high closing price at $1,438.60. The current gold spot rate in early Friday morning New York NYMEX trade is $1,436.40.
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Financial Institutions Say Avoid Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD ticked higher in London trade on Friday, recovering half of yesterday's 1.5% drop from new record highs above $1447 per ounce as
Silver prices also rallied, regaining a third of Thursday's 3.2% drop from new 31-year highs above $38.20 – some 112% higher from this time last year vs. the Dollar.
Friday, March 25, 2011
China Central Bank Positive on Gold due to ‘Value Preservation’ / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: GoldCore
Gold and silver remain supported by continuing macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty. Inflation, the European sovereign debt crisis, conflict in Libya and the wider Middle East and the nuclear disaster in Japan are all factors which will likely result in gold reaching new record nominal highs in all currencies sooner rather than later.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, March 25, 2011
Cocoa Nearing Interesting Short Term Support / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
The recent bull move in Cocoa (ICE) achieved a new multi-year high, but so far the higher levels have not been sustained. The subsequent pullback has now neared technical support which could at least prompt a s/term recovery.
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Friday, March 25, 2011
World Non-Energy Commodity Price BubbleOmiX: Crash Warning / Commodities / CRB Index
By: Andrew_Butter
There is a pretty little chart doing the rounds, put up originally by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic policy Analysis; that has been seized on by the Fed and her acolytes to prove that “easy-money” from that source did NOT cause a bubble in commodity prices, or perversely, by the Fed-Bashers to prove the opposite.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Potash Supply Stocks / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: HRA_Advisory
Cloth-dying and soap-making have employed residue from boiled plant material since ancient times. The plants are reduced to brine and that evaporated until only the useful “potash” remains. In the 19th century the active ingredient in this precipitate was fit into the periodic table as “potassium” with the symbol “K”. Potash has stuck for potassium bearing salts mined in modern times. The salts are processed into fertilizer, now 95% of the K market, which returns potassium to the plant world to increase agricultural yields. Potassium is irreplaceable in this application, so growth of its supply is considered critical to expand global food output. Potash salts are extracted in about a dozen areas, but only a few have large scale. As with other bulk minerals, the boom in potash exploration is keyed to both greater supply diversity and more capacity.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Japan Crisis Is Not the End of Nuclear Power / Commodities / Nuclear Power
By: The_Energy_Report
John Pugsley has been publishing The Stealth Investor newsletter for the past five years, producing a recommendation record that is enviable by any standard. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, John reveals his current thinking on energy-related investments in light of the global economic situation and the effects of the catastrophe in Japan.
Editor's Note: Shortly after this interview was recorded, Mr. Pugsley suffered a major heart attack. Our thoughts are with him and his family as we share his insights. New subscriptions to The Stealth Investor have been temporarily suspended.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Gold and Silver Sell Targets / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Why do you suppose that gasoline prices at stations on the corner near your home generally post the same price? While the companies might contend that their product's secret additive will make your car run faster, last longer, and cause your love life to be better, most of us cannot tell the difference. If we price our gasoline above the true equilibrium price, buyers will simply not buy our gasoline. That is true for gasoline, cannabis, and precious metals.