Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Doubling the Value of Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Richard_Daughty
With gold and silver going up in price like they are, I spend a lot of time secluded in the Big Mogambo Bunker (BMB), greedily calculating my profit with each little up-tick in price. I am so delighted that I alternate between, on the one hand, happily dreaming of happier days to come when silver and gold have gone up so much in the roaring inflation caused by the Federal Reserve creating so much money that I will have made So Freaking Much Money (SFMM), then, on alternatively, dreading the hyperinflation caused by the Federal Reserve creating so much extra money that it causes societal breakdown in a bleak and horrific post-apocalyptic nightmare of worthless dollars, violent clan rivalries, bloody warlords and weird alien invaders from some distant planet planting spores in our brains.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Cherry Picking Undervalued Junior Gold Miners / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: The_Gold_Report
Junior resource companies have been on a wild ride since 2009 and Mickey Fulp, the author of The Mercenary Geologist newsletter, thinks most of them are as overvalued as they've ever been. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Mickey discusses the handful of undervalued plays he's unearthed in an overvalued gold market.
The Gold Report: We spoke earlier this year after equities had a wild ride in 2009. You made the comment that you didn't see many undervalued junior resource companies. When we spoke again in April, you said many of these juniors were at an all-time high. What's your feeling about the junior sector now that we're in October?
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Gold and Silver Breakout and Consolidation, China's Greek Dollar Swap Window to Dump Treasuries / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Jim_Willie_CB
The Chinese are clever people. Their leaders play a good game of chess in the global scramble for commodity supply and financial dominance. Their patient strategy has tied the arms & legs of the USGovt, using their own debt securities as the binding rope. The accumulate almost reached a staggering $1000 billion, the ugly fruit of the Low-Cost Solution to invest in China from a decade ago. While much attention has come to saber rattling over currency manipulation and tiny 25 basis point interest rate hikes, even battles over rare earth metals, something has been happening in Europe of importance that involve a Chinese back door to dump USTreasurys. To be sure, the USGovt deficits and monetary policy have invited a selloff in the USDollar. In the latter months of 2009 and early months of 2010, the Jackass wrote frequently about the absurd notion of an Exit Strategy from 0% and Quantitative Easing.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Unconventional Natural Gas Red Zone / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: OilPrice_Com
Great chart from PFC Energy. Presented at an Institute of Energy Economics, Japan seminar last month.The piece shows the "red zones" in global unconventional gas (shale, tight gas, coal bed methane). Comparing the unconventional sector in North America to six unnamed Asian nations (lettered A to F, so as not to hurt any feelings), across ten categories related to the gas business in each country. Green is good, yellow okay, red poor.
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Future of Unconventional Shale Gas / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Submissions
Maninder Batra writes: Today, in the energy markets we hear a lot of euphoria and hype about shale gas, and how it has effectively neutralized the Natural gas cartel ,GECF . But, there has some bad news for unconventional gas industry , when Chesapeake’s CEO Aubrey McClendon declared that the shale gas reserves have been discovered already and there will be no more new discoveries in the USA.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Potent Recovery Rally in Natural Gas / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Let's notice that natural gas futures are in the midst of a potent recovery rally from yesterday's low at 3.395 to this morning's high at 3.593 so far (+5.9%). Meanwhile, the U.S. Natural Gas Fund ETF (NYSE: UNG) has climbed from 5.56 to 5.68, or +2.7% in the "draft" behind natural gas.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Reason Why the Gold Price Collapsed / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: INO
Following the gold market as we do here at MarketClub, it was amazing that nobody, and I mean nobody, was bearish on this market. This always creates a problem as the markets tend to reverse when everyone is on one side and there's no one else left to buy.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Gold and Silver Slip But Investors Still Buying the Dips / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF WHOLESALE gold and silver bullion failed to hold a rally in London trade on Wednesday, easing back from a bounce on "decent" Asian demand after a rise in China's benchmark interest rates yesterday sparked what one analyst calls "a knee-jerk sell-off across the commodities."
US crude oil contracts had earlier crept back above $80 per barrel, while broad commodity markets added more than 1%.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Gold Weak, Sterling Falls on Economic Concerns over Record UK Public Borrowing / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
The knee jerk reaction to the Chinese interest rate rise was an increase in risk aversion which saw falls in equity and commodity markets and this contributed to gold falling more than 2%. Poor earnings results also contributed to the weakness in equities. Gold's weakness was also likely due to the dollar rising and to profit taking after gold's recent gains. Support is at $1,325/oz and $1,300/oz and resistance is at $1,374/oz and the record nominal high of $1,385/oz (see chart below).
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Could the U.S. Government Seize Your Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Could the government seize your gold?
It's a question that's being asked with increasing frequency these days. The United States is struggling with a post-financial-crisis economy that can't seem to get healthy, which has led to a ballooning budget deficit and a staggering national debt.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Insights into the Peruvian Gold and Metals Mining Industry / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Gold_Report
Mining is big in Latin America. The mining sector represents the lion's share of the main Peruvian indexes, and Chile and Argentina have significant mining operations as well. Kallpa Securities CEO Alberto Arispe talked exclusively with The Gold Report about some of the most promising small-cap plays in the area and the prospects of Peru, Chile and Argentina trading under a single exchange and what that might mean for the future of mine financing and investment opportunities.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Gold in a Low Inflation Environment / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
Why this really isn't the early '80s recession replayed...
WHATEVER the problem is, a lack of money it ain't. Just so we're clear. Quite how more money might help, therefore, we can't say.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Crude Oil and Natiral Gas prices Higher with Equities / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: LiveCharts
Surging equity markets have helped push oil prices through the $80 level. Benchmark crude oil scheduled for November delivery trades at $83.14 in early New York Mercantile Exchange trade Tuesday (October 19) morning.
Oil prices climbed firmly, by $1.83, in Monday’s trade, for a New York settle price of $83.08. Higher stock prices due to a promising round of earnings reports, along with a weaker dollar-euro ratio were seen as catalysts for the fast start to the week.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Gold Plunges to 2 Week Low as U.S. Dollar and Yen Push Higher / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
GOLD PRICES fell Tuesday lunchtime in London, unwinding an earlier rise made against all currencies bar the US Dollar and Japanese Yen, which then knocked gold bullion back to two-week lows at $1345 per ounce and ¥3530 per gram respectively.
European stock markets also slipped, while US crude oil fell back below $82 per barrel.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Russia Offers Indonesia Floating Nuclear Power Station / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Pravda
Russia has offered Indonesia to cooperate in the nuclear field. The offer stipulates the construction of the first nuclear-powered electric power plant in the country. Russian experts believe that Indonesia, being the country of many islands, may show interest in Russia's state-of-the-art technology of building floating nuclear power plants.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Gold Mining Stocks and Silver Set for Short-Term Correction / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
Whether you call it a recession, or depression, or deflation, or recovery, for tens of millions of Americans, there’s little difference. With the Mid-term elections upon us the odds are that the voters might make the new Congress more conservative.
Generally, it is believed that a more conservative government might lean towards self-control in spending (yeah, right), restraint in Keynesian stimulus policies, which means moderating the quantitative easing.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Gold and Silver Try to Maintain Positive Momentum / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold and silver maintained their positive momentum yesterday and eked out another daily gain after initial weakness. Both are marginally lower today and yesterday's lows of $1352/os and $23.70/os are now short term support which could be tested if we have a period of dollar strength. However, the technicals and the fundamentals remain resoundingly supportive of higher prices and the round figures of $1,400/oz (and $24/oz) remain short term price targets.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
How to Play Gold Short-term Top with Options Calendar Spreads / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: J_W_Jones
Recent price action in stocks and commodities reinforces the “don’t fight the Fed” mantra. What would our central bank be doing if it were not devaluing our currency, attempting to create inflation, and openly manipulating financial markets through a series of supposedly calculated open-market operations? I do not have any market prophecies; my crystal ball is on permanent vacation. The only certainty that presents itself is that the market pundits, the academics, and the analysts do not know exactly what is going to happen in the future.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Gold Still Under Owned / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Captain_Hook
The debate is on. People are saying even if there is not deflation, at the same time there is no inflation, which is of course wrong. In the first place, inflation, which is defined as an increase in money supply (not prices), although growth rates are not hyperinflationary, still, they are rising. So, on the most basic level the premise these people are operating under is completely false. Prices are rising in under-owned asset groups (think precious metals and commodities) due to money supply growth, and falling in over-owned asset groups (think real estate and stocks), but all this has nothing to do with the inflation, which is a product of wrongheaded and unscrupulous government in that it’s indirect wealth confiscation.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Gold Slips as Dollar Rallies, Correlation with Euro Holds at Record Level / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF PHYSICAL gold fell in Asian and early London trade on Monday, dropping to a 3-session low of $1354 an ounce as the US Dollar rallied and Asian stock markets ended the day lower.
Only New Zealand and Bombay equities avoided a drop in Asia-Pacific trade, while US crude oil contracts slid to a 1-week low of $80.35 per barrel.