Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Hot Commodities, The Place To Be Invested / Commodities / Investing 2010
By: Charles_Maley
As one watches the day to day advice on CNBC, you will notice that we are inundated with stock advice. Bank of America this, Goldman Sachs that, and of course Apple Computer will run the world shortly. But when it comes to commodities, they are rarely explored with the exception of gold, copper and oil.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
Negative Technicals for Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Mike_Paulenoff
As our proxy for gold, let's have a look at the big picture of the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (NYSE: GLD). As we enter the final hour of the week, let's notice that the GLD appears to have held lows in the 128.80 area against its July-October up trendline, which preserves its near term uptrend. That said, however, the "Island (Cluster) Top" that was put in during the Oct 14-Oct 19 timeframe remains valid and represents a very powerful negative technical influence on the GLD.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
Hold on to Gold, U.S. Government and Banks are Lying on Unemployment and Mortgage Fraud / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: The_Gold_Report
Predicting ongoing waves of mortgage delinquency, illiquidity and bank insolvency, 321gold's Bob Moriarty envisions a temporary financial holiday followed by a return to the gold standard. While he finds several solid investment opportunities among mining equities, he says the safest strategy is having "a $20 U.S. gold piece in your right hand and a 1 oz. gold bar in your left." In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Bob explains how the U.S. government "is lying" about unemployment figures and banks "are lying" about supposed mortgage reviews that find no fraud involved and recommends investors have "a triangle of investments"—the most important of which are physical precious metals.
Friday, October 22, 2010
G20 Gold Convertable, Be Careful What Geithner Wishes For... / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers..."
– Teresa of Ávila, patron saint of headache sufferers
IT'S FIVE YEARS and $1.7 trillion of Chinese foreign reserves since the People's Bank of China ended its decade-long peg to the Dollar – the one at CNY8.3 which it had defended through the late '90s Asian Crisis and again as the Dollar first began its long decline in the early Noughties.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Crude Oil Prices Are Going Higher! Here’s Why / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Lorimer_Wilson
Chris Mack writes: Global crude oil production has leveled off at 74 million barrels per day. However, now that economies are recovering, consumption levels are back on the rise and the result will be an inevitable rise in oil prices.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Gold, G20 Capital Controls or Chaos? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
Gold dropped too $1,314.5 before recovering to $1.325. It seems that this was due to the G-20 proposals from the U.S. indicating a possible attempt at calming currency markets. This weekend the G-20 is meeting to discuss the current currency turmoil in the markets. Usually this is a meeting where little happens, but this time the U.S. has proposed that countries in the Group of 20 limit current-account surpluses or deficits to no more than 4% of each nation's gross domestic product by 2015. It met opposition from Japan and some developing economies.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Gold Rally Not as Strong as it Appears - Dollar Distortion / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Zeal_LLC
Gold has enjoyed a relentless and rather one-sided rally since late July. Up 18.9% at best over an 11-week span where nearly 2/3rds of the trading days enjoyed gains, some traders are wondering if this metal is getting overbought. Tuesday’s sharp 2.9% retreat certainly amplified these fears. But interestingly, due to dollar distortion this recent gold rally isn’t as strong as it appears.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Gold Falls to 3 Week Low Ahead of G20 Summit / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF WHOLESALE gold bullion fell to 3-week lows against the Dollar on Friday morning in London, sliding 5.1% from last week's all-time high – and dipping below $1316 an ounce – before steadying as the US currency eased back on the forex market.
Asian and European stock markets were muted, and major-economy bonds were little changed, but US crude oil contracts rose sharply to $81.50 per barrel.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Gold Correction Continues as G20 Meet to Discuss Currency Wars / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold is lower today as the dollar has continued to eke out gains ahead of the G20 summit where competitive currency devaluations and currency wars are set to be discussed. Gold is down 0.3% in dollars and has fallen in most currencies except for the Swiss franc which is under pressure today.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Copper Talk / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Richard_Mills
Copper’s talking up a storm.
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. said copper ore mined from Chile, and shipped to Indonesia, will be in short supply for at least the next five years.
Antofagasta Plc, which owns three Chilean mines, said a scarcity will persist for “the foreseeable future.”
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Friday, October 22, 2010
A Brief History of Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Sean_Brodrick
Are you wearing a wedding ring, or perhaps some gold jewelry? Give it a good look, and I’ll tell you its story.
The story of gold begins, as does the story of all metals on earth, 4.6 billion years ago. That’s when a giant star — a real colossus — burned through its last joules of fuel and erupted in a burst of raw energy and heavy metals.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Temporary Pause in Silver’s Bull Run / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
Following a consolidation over the summer months a fresh, unbroken bull move in Silver has seen the major 2008 peak overcome and the first of our Fibo projections reached. There is room for a s/term pullback now, but there’s no sign that the main uptrend is tiring.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Economic Standoff So Buy Gold, Silver and Oil! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Richard_Daughty
I was in the living room, happily reading as the kids quietly watched a show on TV that was even more insipid than their usual choice of mesmerizing mindless pap.
I was thinking to myself, "How pleasant! No noise! No strife! No arguing! No social workers telling me I have to do this for the kids, or do that for the kids, or stop doing this to the kids, or stop doing that to the kids!"
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Silver 30 Year Resistance Breakout, Big Profit Opportunity Against Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Investmentscore.com
In our eye’s, when it comes to investing “Relative Value” is ‘everything’! Why? Because currencies are controlled and manipulated by governments so “Price” (measuring an asset’s value with a currency) cannot be relied upon.
Where do we see some relative value these days? Let us first clarify our point using a few historical examples and then we will provide some insight into today’s market.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Gold and Stocks Playing the Quantitative Easing Guessing Game / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Clif_Droke
The headline discussion in the financial press of late has been about the recently announced quantitative easing program that the Federal Reserve has said it will undertake in order to further stimulate the economy. Financial commentators have bled their pens dry in speculating what impact the so-called “QE2” will have on stock and commodity prices. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, October 22, 2010
Setting Up a Grid to Buy The Silver Dips / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
Currency traders have long used a grid system as a way to systematically buy into a currency at differing points and average in their positions. With silver emerging as a currency of choice among ordinary investors and even institutional hedge funds, it’s high time silver investors do the same.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
This Indicator Says When to Sell Gold Stocks / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Q1_Publishing
Gold has taken a $50 hit this week and, if you’ve been watching gold stocks, it would seem like the gold bull run is over forever.Although gold is being historically an extremely volatile asset class and it’s down a mere 4% from its recent all-time highs, now that the herd is running from gold stocks is a good time to consider whether it’s time to take profits too.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
U.S. Has Enough Natural Gas For 100 Years, Impact on Corporations / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: The_Energy_Report
Frank Curzio may focus on small-cap companies, but the Penny Stock Specialist editor understands the importance of a big-picture view when it comes to investments of any size. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Frank presents some promising oil, natural gas and coal stocks with caveat emptor—"volatile markets demand extra attention."
The Energy Report: Frank, as editor of Penny Stock Specialist, you cover a number of stocks trading under $10. But you recently wrote a report on Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) and its competitors for Growth Stock Wire. So, tell us what you specialize in.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Crude Oil Topping Pattern / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Nearby oil prices look like they are carving out a top formation off of the October 7 high at $84.43. In particular, the series of lower highs on each rally since the October 8 decline is dictating the unfolding pattern.
As long as the series remains intact, the oil market will be on the defensive. That means that as long as $82.70 contains any forthcoming strength, the developing pattern will continue to put pressure on key near-term support between $79.80 and $79.25, which if violated and sustained should trigger downside acceleration towards $77.00-$76.50 next.
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Gold Price and Inflation Expectations / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Rosanne_Lim
As the US industrial output shrank last month for the first time in over a year, it appears certain that the Federal Reserve will decide to release more monetary stimulus on its next policy meeting on November 2-3. A report on Monday revealed that home-builder confidence might have risen this month but it remains worryingly low. According to Paul Ashworth of Capital Economics based in Toronto, “The industrial production report illustrates, if anything, economic growth is still slowing rather than beginning to pick up again, which is yet another reason for the Fed to unleash QE2 (second quantitative easing)”.