Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
How To Trade Gold and Silver’s Volatility / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Understanding the key differences between both gold and silver’s risk/volatility levels plays a large part in how I choose a low risk trade setup. Those of you who follow me already know the GLD etf is my favorite trading vehicle as it provides me with low risk trading setups along with a very high win rate.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
China's Gold Demand: Saving, Not Spending / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
WHATEVER the reasons for China's massive household savings rate (Western economists blame the lack of social security, so you can guess their cure), the World Gold Council's Gold Demand Trends today showed private consumers putting ever-more money into physical gold.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
You'll Buy Gold Now and Like It When it Hits $6,214 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Casey_Research
Jeff Clark, Casey's Gold & Resource Report writes: I get this question a lot: "Should I buy gold now, or wait for a pullback?"
It’s a valid question. For nearly two years, gold hasn't had a serious decline. There have been pullbacks, of course, but nothing assumption-challenging. In fact, since October 2008, gold’s largest price drop is 10.6% (based on London PM fix prices), and yet the average of all declines since 2001 is 13% (of those greater than 5%). The biggest pullback we've seen this summer is 8.2%. Technically the summer's not over, but I'll admit I'm surprised we haven't had a better buying opportunity.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Gold and Silver Protection From Economic Cancer and Desperation of QE2 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Jim_Willie_CB
History is being made. The American public has never been no nervous, perhaps fearful of something dreadful and imminent. The global monetary system is crumbling. The typical stimulus has failed to jumpstart the USEconomy. The 20 months of near 0% short-term official interest rate has failed to revive the moribund US housing market. The phony FASB accounting rules has failed to accomplish anything except a stay of execution for the big US banks, which do not lend much. In fact, the US banks are largely dead entities showing enough life for to receive USGovt largesse aid. Witness the failure of the US financial sector. Witness the climax chapter of failure for the Fascist Business Model.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Estate Sales: A Silver Mine! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
With the economic crisis well underway, estate sale sizes have grown tremendously as cash-strapped children hope to bring home big bucks from their deceased parent's assets. Traditionally, only small amounts of an estate would be auctioned, as the children of the deceased kept most of the items as an heirloom keepsake. However, in today's economy, cash is king, and so many people need the spare cash that they'll sell almost anything—including their silver and gold collections.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
How Financial Instruments Suppress Silver's Value / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
One fact is very, very clear: the silver markets are horribly suppressed. As we reported months ago, it was discovered in May that the silver futures market is purely paper, and there is an actual whistleblower to tell the tale. However, that testimony was subsequently squandered when the closed circuit TV had “technical errors,” and days later Andrew Maguire, the famed whistleblower, was in a hit and run accident.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Gold Hits 8-Week High as Stocks Fall / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD rose to an 8-week high Wednesday morning in London, rising 2.2% from yesterday's spike lower as world stock markets continued to slide in thin trade.
"Tuesday was a wild day in the precious complex," says a note from Mitsui's London team, "and perhaps a sign of things to come as the summer months draw to a close.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Gold Demand Increases 36% as Investors Increase Allocations to Bullion / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
US and German government bonds, gold and particularly silver rose in safe haven buying yesterday on growing concerns about the robustness of the US recovery. The two precious metals traded flat in Asian and early European trade but have moved up again this morning as the dollar has weakened. Risk aversion has returned due to the very poor housing data yesterday which suggests a double dip recession is increasingly possible. These concerns are not being helped by renewed jitters in sovereign debt markets on Ireland's downgrade with government bond spreads widening again and the spread between Ireland's and Germany's debt at new records.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Gold, the collapse of Keynesian Economic Dogma and Fed Money Printing / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Keynesian economic dogma continues down a path marked by complete failure. Fundamental belief of this ideology is that government can replace the private economy. Second rule is that government should replace the private sector. Flowing from that change should be a land of economic milk and honey. Except for one little thing, it does not work.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Gold Down For Third Day on Profit Taking, Oil Weakness and Dollar Strength / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold fell marginally yesterday and has fallen for a third day in a row. Gold's hesitation and weakness is likely due to renewed dollar strength, oil weakness and profit taking after gold's recent sharp rally. Market participants will be nervous about another disappointing report on the housing market later today.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
How to Profit From the Russian Wheat Shortage / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Money_Morning
JACK BARNES writes:
Russian wheat farmers have a tough life.
Having grown up on a working farm in Oregon, I understand this all too well. Those days taught me a lot about hard work and patience. Four decades later, as I read news stories about the current travails of Russian wheat farmers, the memories of getting up on wet winter mornings for the pre-dawn goat milking - or having to drive a tractor when I was only six years old - engender a lot of empathy for the difficult challenges the wheat farmers face.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Why Gold Is Not In A Bull Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
What is a 'Bull' market? It is a market in an upward price phase of a market with the expectation that it will be followed by a 'Bear' or downward phase of a market. This mindset is common to all markets. Sayings like, "everything that goes up must come down" is pretty standard and taken as part of life itself, but few examine it to see if it is really true. Why should everything that goes up come down? For some years now gold has been thought of as moving in the opposite direction to the U.S. Dollar.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Economic "Water Torture" Coming to U.S, Bullish for Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: The_Gold_Report
Addicted to Profits Newsletter Writer David Skarica has an addiction that might just benefit you. David is addicted to making himself and his subscribers money. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, David predicts that the U.S. economy will decline very slowly, describing the process as "Chinese water torture." David says any precipitous market drop will be pre-empted by further quantitative easing. And this, he says, will be bullish for gold. He also names some companies that might help folks suffering David's sweet affliction.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Gold Enters Strongest Period as Eurozone Debt Crisis Returns / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD in wholesale dealing held flat Monday morning in London, easing down to $1226 an ounce as European stock markets rose but government bonds and traded commodities were also unchanged.
"The Federal Reserve has begun to play with fire, the effects of which I doubt Bernanke fully appreciates," writes John Hussman of the eponymous $6.3bn asset management group in the US, extending his Strategic Total Return Fund's exposure to precious metals to 10%.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Gold Marginally Lower in USD and Flat in EUR and CHF / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold traded sideways in Asian trade, hovering near last week's close at $1,228/oz. There was a brief spike to $1,231.35/oz in early European trade prior to sharp and determined selling. Gold remained marginally higher until the London AM fix whereupon there was a further wave of selling which took prices down to $1,225.30/oz. Gold is lower in most currencies except the euro and the Swiss franc which are slightly weaker this morning (see Cross Currency Rates).
Monday, August 23, 2010
Invest Now in Natural Gas, Coal and Heating Oil for January Cold Weather / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes: The irony about cold-weather investing is that the biggest profits come to those who position their money during the hottest months of the year - even during the record heatwave Americans have been experiencing this year.
In short, now's the time to start thinking about such winter-related topics as heating bills, and such cold-weather investments as natural gas, heating oil and coal.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Crude Oil Prices Spiral Downwards as Economic Gloom Intensifies / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: OilPrice_Com
Crude oil prices continued their downward spiral during the week as new data confirmed that U.S. economic growth is slowing.The benchmark West Texas Intermediate contract settled 2.6% lower for the week on Friday, at $73.46 a barrel compared to the $75.39 close a week ago, itself a decline of 7% from the previous week.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Gold Autumn In New York / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Howard_Katz
Being gold bug’s lots of fun.
We’ve got the bad guys on the run.
The autumn season does behoove
For price of gold to make its move.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Gold Rally Tracing Bearish Wedge Pattern / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Merv_Burak
Since its bottom in late July gold has been on an almost steady advance, day after day. However, this advance has traced an upward sloping wedge pattern on the charts and this pattern usually suggests a break to the down side ahead. That could come any day now.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Gold Topping and USD Bottoming or Vice Versa? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
This week we have sent out several messages to our Subscribers regarding the current market situation. Now, the markets have calmed down for the weekend, and we are able to provide you with a report summarizing precious metals performance over the whole week, and - to some extent - provide you with our thoughts regarding gold's next move.