Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, April 05, 2010
Oil Price BubbleOmics: $90 and Rising Is the New Reality / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Andrew_Butter
Now that there are rumours the world economy is showing some signs of self-sustaining life (if not particularly the US Economy), one thing worth thinking about is where oil prices are likely to go (1).
Starting from the basics, there are a plenty of theories that explain how to grow economies. They range from free-markets to free-debt, all the way through stimulus-packages to free-love.
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Monday, April 05, 2010
Gold Ready To Roar / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Howard_Katz
Well, it’s been a bad 5 months. Gold has mostly just gone back and forth, and gold bugs are wringing their hands in frustration. But this is the problem with using intuition in the markets. One intuitively remembers the recent past, and one forgets the larger picture. This is the big advantage of using charts. So let us look at a chart of this bull market going back to its start in early 2001 just slightly above $250.
Monday, April 05, 2010
What’s Really Driving Obama’s Sudden Interest in Crude Oil / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: U.S. President Barack Obama generated a lot of hubbub with his decision to open up parts of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Gold, Time to Get Excited Again? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Merv_Burak
Is it time to get all excited again? Not yet. Gold has had a couple of good days but has yet not breached any major resistance levels so the move may only be temporary within a basic lateral trend. Let’s wait for better validation of the up move.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Gold and Silver Price Manipulation, The world Largest Fraud, 5.5 Trillion? / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Fresbee
The Gold and Silver Manipulation spanning decades (going back well back into 1980s) has now taken mammoth proportions, one that could bankrupt not just a few banks but entire countries along with their central banks. Prime in this network are the Bank of England and the FED reserve who have been caught on the wrong side.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Gold and USD Index Analysis Again Provides Key Trading Signals / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
In the March 26th commentary we wrote that given the historical significance of the RSI being at 70 and the fact that the USD Index has just touched the 50% retracement of the previous rally leads us to anticipate that the recent USD Index rally will stall out and retrace. In addition, a rally for PMs and PM stocks is looking more and more probable.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
It's Rational to Expect the Irrational During This Gold Bull Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adam_Brochert
I can promise you that the hard Gold bull crowd had to sit thru YEARS of irrational market behavior in the general stock market leading up to the 2000 peak in general stocks. While Gold stocks languished in the late 1990s, the NASDAQ bubble rose higher and higher. We are going to have the same thing during this secular Gold bull market. You should expect the price of Gold and Gold stocks to rise higher than justified by the fundamentals in the Gold market. We are a long way from this period but it will happen at some point. In fact, I think the party in the Gold patch is going to get started this year.
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Geothermal Energy Investing, Hot Rocks and Hot Investments… But Don’t Get Burned! / Commodities / Renewable Energy
By: Casey_Research
Dr. Marc Bustin, Ph.D., FRSC, Casey Research Energy Team writes:
The geothermal industry has been taking one step forward and two steps back over the last year. On the forward side are grants and interest-free loans aplenty, particularly from governments wanting to jump on the green-energy bandwagon. Pushing back is not only some tough geology with deep, dry-rock drilling projects, but also the public fear of earthquakes along with other environmental issues.
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Brent Cook: Big Discoveries, Smart Management, OPM (Other People's Money) / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: The_Gold_Report
Size matters to renowned exploration analyst and geologist Brent Cook, not being a fan of small projects. He follows geology and discoveries worldwide and pays close attention to the teams involved. "Although scamsters, frauds or hucksters can make a discovery, you're much better off screening out all but the best people," he tells The Gold Report readers. Brent produces the weekly Exploration Insights newsletter. In this article, he reviews several projects in West Africa, Latin America, the U.S. and Canada. Some of them include joint ventures where larger companies pay the costs for the high risks.
Friday, April 02, 2010
Gold Global Mining 6 Year Production Downtrend Impact on Junior Gold Stocks / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Zeal_LLC
Nearly a decade into gold’s secular bull the mining industry continues to exhibit struggles. And this is best characterized by an ongoing 6-year downtrend in global mine production. For this reason, and the fact that gold is up 373% since 2001, those miners that are able to find success have the ability to greatly profit in this bull. And it is this profit potential that has attracted investors to gold stocks.
Friday, April 02, 2010
Global Gold Index – Higher Again / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
The world's money has lost almost 75% of its value against gold in the last 10 years...
SAID IT BEFORE, but we'll say it again.
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
The Case for Natural Gas Investing / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: The_Energy_Report
Many analysts say that there still isn't enough demand for natural gas to make it a smart investment opportunity. John Licata, chief investment strategist at Blue Phoenix Inc., disagrees. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, John explains why he thinks that by year-end natural gas could be the place for investors to be.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
The Real Shape of Chinese Gold Demand / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
The respected World Gold Council has issued a report on the Chinese gold market. In it, WGC points out that, local Chinese consumers are well aware of gold's benefit as a store of value and that jewelry has always been regarded by Chinese buyers as an investment. Like Eastern demand in general, the Chinese want gold, not diluted gold, so at least 80% of total gold jewelry demand in China is accounted for by 24-carat gold.
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
Gold and Silver Long-term Buy Signals Triggered / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Steven_Vincent
I am placing gold and silver on official long term buy signals as of today. The commodities complex in general is breaking out across the board in spite of continued resilience in the US dollar and in general world markets are flashing an inflationary growth profile.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 01, 2010
The Next Phase of the Credit Crunch and What it Means for Gold and Markets / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
Lately we’ve been writing about the importance of the bond market. Want a hint if we will have hyperinflation? Follow the bond market. Japan and the US in the 1930s didn’t have hyperinflation because there were enough domestic savings to finance the expansion of the government. Rather than argue about inflation/deflation, people should be talking about the bond market.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Q1 2010 - Gold +1.5% and Silver +3.5% - Gold's Sixth Consecutive Quarterly Advance / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: GoldCore
Gold jumped to as high as $1,118/oz in New York on the surprisingly poor jobs number before dropping slightly to close with a gain of 0.86%. It has since risen from $1,112/oz to $1,118/oz in Asian trading this morning. Gold is currently trading at $1,117/oz and in euro and GBP terms, gold is trading at €827/oz and £734/oz respectively.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Gold & Silver Move Higher, "Deepen Consolidation" Ahead of Long Easter Weekend / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD rose to a two-week high vs. the Dollar on Thursday morning in London, gaining as the US currency also rose on the forex market and global equities pushed towards fresh 18-month highs.
US oil contracts also rose to their best level since Oct. 2008, breaking above $84.60 per barrel.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Gold Bugs Digging for Illusive Evidence of Market Manipulation, What Isn’t Manipulated? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Brady_Willett
News that London trader, Andrew Maguire, has exposed manipulation in the precious metals market has been making the rounds over the last week. This rehashed story of precious metals manipulation, which is being ignored by the mainstream media, has quickly acquired ultra-conspiracy status because Mr. Maguire was not permitted to testify at the CFTC hearing, technical difficulties were encountered as soon as GATA’s Bill Murphy started to speak, and days after the hearing Mr. Maguire’s car was struck in a ‘bizarre’ hit and run. Yet for all of the excitement an objective take on Maguire’s revelations proves less than compelling. In other words, we all know the price of gold is manipulated in the same sense that currency prices, interest rates, mortgage rates, and even stock prices are indirectly and directly ‘manipulated’ by powerful interests -- and?...
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Cocoa Set For Temporary Recovery Phase / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
This year’s bear move in Cocoa was clearly signaled at the time (please refer to our 28th Jan Update), and has steadily unfolded. Recently in the Commodity Specialist Guide we have been looking at an interesting support area and this looks likely to prompt a rebound period very soon.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Gold & Stock Market Indexes Melt Up Into Earnings? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Gold and the stock market continue to trade within a tight range this week. While the long term trend for both stocks and metals are up, and the charts look bullish I am not buying at this level because the market is over bought.