Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, December 14, 2009
China as a Nuclear Power Play / Commodities / Uranium
By: Frank_Holmes
Romeo Dator writes: Like all major economies, China is preparing for its energy future to accommodate rapid growth and the movement of more and more Chinese to cities. The foundation of the nation’s electricity generation plan is coal, but with loud calls coming from around the world for China to cut its output of greenhouse gases, a significant portion of new power will be nuclear.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Gold Bounces off Four Week Low / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD ticked higher from near 4-week lows at $1111 an ounce early Monday, recording the lowest London Gold Fix since Nov. 13th at $1120 as Asian stock markets ended the day flat but European shares rose despite poor data.
The government of Abu Dhabi surprised analysts by lending neighboring Dubai $10 billion today to help repay debts owed by its Nakheel real-estate group.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Gold Silver Ratio Means Silver Remains a Compelling Buy / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: GoldCore
Gold has been as high as $1,127.50/oz overnight on dollar weakness but has since given up the gains in late morning London trading as the dollar has recovered its earlier losses. Gold is currently trading at $1,116.50/oz and in euro and GBP terms, gold is trading at €763/oz and £688/oz respectively.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Gold Inflation Big Picture / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Howard_Katz
Right now the financial markets are telling us a story which is so incredible, so fantastic and filled with such opportunities for profit that I am in awe. I can only remember two comparable opportunities in my lifetime, the bottom in gold at $35/oz. in the summer of 1970 and the bottom in stocks in the summer of 1982 at 780 DJI.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Gold More Downside Expected / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Mark_Brown
Donald W. Pendergast writes: So, we’ve seen a substantial correction in the Gold market over the past couple of weeks, and that means that Gold is now ready to rocket higher to fresh highs, isn’t it? Probably not, at least not right away, and patient and wise traders/investors will want to wait a bit to see what Gold does as it interacts with any number of key support levels. Let’s take a closer look, hoping to ascertain when/where this current downdraft might expect to meet up with major support.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Where Next for the Stock Market, Gold, Silver and Crude Oil? / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
The past three weeks have been interesting to watch as the Dow (DIA ETF) has broadened causing traders to be shaken in and out of positions. Commodities have been under pressure as the US dollar has risen. Below are some charts of these investments and what I think could happen in the next couple weeks.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Orange Juice Futures 2010 Commodity Trade Setup / Commodities / Futures Trading
By: Patrice_V_Johnson
In this weekly issue, The J.E.D.I. Way will be covering price trends in the Futures, and Futures Options Markets for the long-term, intermediate-term, and short-term time periods for the MARCH 2010 ORANGE JUICE contract and then list one or more trading opportunities that The J.E.D.I. Way will be seeking to add to its current holdings.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Gold Long-term Performance Analysis / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
How has gold performed in the 42 years since 1967 when it last traded at a fixed price of $35 in the US?
Let’s look at it versus the total return of the S&P 500, the total return of 1-yr T-Bills, West Texas Intermediate Crude and the Urban Consumers All Items Consumer Price Index?
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Silver Rising Bearish Wedge Price Pattern / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Clive_Maund
A bizarre anomaly of gold's recent strong runup was the unusually poor performance of silver, which normally outpaces gold noticably during the middle and later stages of an uptrend. It did not gain any serious traction and is already back below its September peak. The fact that it did not even manage to break out to new highs is taken as a non-confirmation of gold's move, as is the failure of the PM stock indices to make new highs, and is viewed as bearish for the sector over the intermediate-term, meaning the coming 2 to 6 months.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Gold Approaching Important Support and U.S. Dollar Bullish Wedge Pattern / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Clive_Maund
The last update posted on the 29th November called a top in gold, which occurred just a few days later. This was actually quite easy to do given the overbought extreme that then existed and the fervour of bullishness spilling over into the mainstream financial media. Gold has since reacted back heavily and our task now is to decide whether this is just a reaction in an ongoing and possibly still accelerating uptrend, or whether it marks an intermediate top, or worse the onset of a full-blown bearmarket.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Financial and Commodity Bubbles Everywhere? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Charles_Maley
The financial markets are generally unpredictable, so one has to have different scenarios. The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market – GEORGE SOROS
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Agriculture Investing, Everybody Has to Eat / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Charles_Maley
“If you can tell me something else where the fundamentals are so attractive…I’d be happy to put my money there, but I don’t know of any other place” – JIM ROGERS ON AGRICULTURE
It sure seems like gold and oil have stolen the limelight when it comes to commodities lately.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
How to Trade Precious Metal Stocks Right Now / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: DailyWealth
Matt Badiali writes: When you're sending out your Christmas cards this month, gold and silver stock investors should send one to Beijing.
The people of China have helped gold and silver stock investors (and readers of my S&A Resource Report) make a lot of money this year. And they've helped make several of my predictions turn out right on the money.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Gold Correction, When Will it Bottom? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Merv_Burak
The rough period in gold is upon us. Now the question is for how long? I’ll let others answer that question. I’ll just follow the action wherever it takes me. For now that is the down side but it does look like a slight bottoming taking place.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Sell Your Gold Only IF You Want to Lose Money! / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Sean_Brodrick
Something about gold just makes people irrational. The latest meme making the rounds in the mainstream media is that gold is a bad investment over the longer term. A couple of radio hosts asked me about it, and even Bloomberg ran a story on this earlier this week, saying that gold can’t beat the returns on a checking account over the last 30 years. The rest of the story was about while hedge fund managers are buying gold, it’s a poor investment for regular folks.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Jim Rogers Says Gold Not a Bubble, Silver a Better Buy / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Submissions
Commodities are still a great place to invest, while some currencies also offer value and investors should stay away from US stocks and bonds, Jim Rogers, chairman of Jim Rogers Holding, told CNBC Thursday.
Rogers has long been bullish on commodities, especially since central banks started to print money to combat the financial crisis.
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Friday, December 11, 2009
Safeguarding Our Future Supply of Rare Earth Metals / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Gold_Report
"Price may not be as important as security of supply," says Jack Lifton, an independent consultant with more than 45 years of experience in sourcing nonferrous strategic metals. In the U.S., our dependence on rare metals is undermined by the simple fact that we're not producing any. Given that China now controls 95% of these 'technology metals' and the world is projected to eat 200,000 tons of rare earth metals near 2015, Jack tells The Gold Report we need to jumpstart our own domestic supply chain and, more importantly, build the refineries to process them—rather than sending them to China for refining, which is our only option currently.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Has Gold Lost Its Glitter Again? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Sy_Harding
Periodically through the bull market for gold that began in 2001, after gold has rallied significantly off an intermediate-term low the media belatedly picks up on what has happened and becomes very excited about gold and its prospects. That’s usually an indication that the intermediate-term move is just about over, with one more spike up created by additional investors getting caught up in the media’s excitement, and jumping in.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Gold is Money in Extreme Times, Have They Now Arrived? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
It was Alan Greenspan who said that, “gold is money in extremis”. By this all understood that when times got tough, gold became money that people could trust. But what constitutes “in extremis”?
Friday, December 11, 2009
A Hot Future for Geothermal Energy / Commodities / Renewable Energy
By: Marin_Katusa
Capturing energy from the earth’s heat is pretty easy pickin’s for geologically-active areas of the world like Iceland, Indonesia, and Chile. In some locations, hot fluids are so near the earth’s surface that heat from naturally-occurring hot fluids can be directly circulated through buildings for heating. Iceland, in particular, takes advantage of this low-hanging energy fruit.