Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, January 02, 2009
Randgold Resources, In Gold We Trust / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Oxbury_Research
In the closing weeks of 2008, Americans have once again been shocked by a massive Wall Street scandal. Former Nasdaq chairman, Bernie Madoff was arrested for masterminding a $50 billion fraud. The Bernie Mad(e)off with investors' money Ponzi scheme is just the latest Wall Street scandal to see the light of day. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
How to Invest in Crude Oil 2009 / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Richard_Shaw
Oil as a commodity is an interesting real asset. What investments most directly create the economic effect of owning oil itself?
The best answer would be to own an oil well, or better yet, own an entire oil exporting country. However, neither of those options is a practical answer for most investors, certainly not owning a country (unless, of course you are born into the right family).
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Gold Shines Following Feds Fight Against Deflation / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes: The currency markets reaction to the Federal Reserve's recent interest rate cuts has ignited a rally in gold, as investors weigh the benefits of owning the yellow metal versus U.S. Treasuries and the dollar. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Stocks Suffer Record Loss for 2008 Whilst Gold Gains / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD BULLION slipped into the New Year's shutdown on Wednesday, ending 2008 a little shy of 3% above the close of 2007 for US investors at $865 an ounce.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Agri-Foods Strong Bull Market Investment Fundamentals / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Gold Bugs, and others deemed misguided by the Street, missed out on another one. If they had listened to really smart people, they would have had their money with Bernie Madoff. Are Gold Bugs ever going to truly understanding real investing? You kept your wealth in Gold coins locked away at the bank or in a Gold ETF. You could have had your wealth with some really big name hedge fund-of-funds instead. You too could have had your wealth vaporized. Oh well, maybe you will get it right next time. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
U.S. Government Sanctioned Gold Price Manipulation / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Rob_Kirby
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency just released its Q3/08 Quarterly Derivatives Fact Sheet today. Here is one of the highlights:
Take a look at J.P. Morgan's gold derivatives [futures] position, paying particular attention to how the < 1 yr. position changed from the end of Q2/08 to the end of Q3/08:
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Central Banks Fight to Prevent Hyperinflation by Manipulating Gold Price / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Rob_Kirby
The global gold trade – or at least its price discovery – is historically and primarily conducted on major exchanges; primarily at the London Bullion Market Association [LBMA] and to a lesser extent the New York Commodities Exchange [COMEX]. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Silver Ripe for Another Upleg / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The iShares Silver ETF (AMEX: SLV) has carved out an intriguing pattern since early October, which has the look of a base, an attempted upside breakout, followed by a (recent) sideways consolidation (between 11.50 and 10.00). Some people might even call this pattern a "cup and handle," which if accurate means that after another few sessions of sideways digestion circling 10.50, the SLV should take off to the upside into a new upleg that propels prices towards 12.50 next. Only a breach of 10.00 will wreck the developing pattern set-up.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Gold Investors Ending 2008 in Profit / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Adrian_Ash
THE WHOLESALE PRICE OF PHYSICAL GOLD slipped in London on Tuesday, retreating 2% from yesterday's early 11-week high to trade at $871 an ounce.
World stock markets rose and crude oil fell in thin holiday trade. Bond prices pushed higher again, driving yields still further below inflation.
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Monday, December 29, 2008
USO Crude Oil ETF Gives Back Gains / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Forces of Deflation Remain Strong as Oil Gives Back Gains - Wow, the US Oil Fund ETF (NYSE: USO) gave back all its gains from earlier this morning, which means the USO declined nearly 7% since its pre-opening up-gap. What this tells us (perhaps) is that Mid-East hostilities and saber rattling or not, it is unlikely that the crude oil complex will put in a "V" bottom.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, December 29, 2008
Gold and Silver Market Price Manipulation / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Peter_Degraaf
Here is an article you may want to forward to your favorite mining CEO. This article deals with the blatant manipulation that has been occurring in the gold and silver markets, and offers a solution. While this scandal has been going on for many years, at last more and more people are becoming aware that it is going on. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, December 29, 2008
Gold Hits New Record £600 for UK Buyers / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF GOLD jumped once again in thin Asian trade early Monday, adding to Boxing Day's 3% gain to reach an AM Gold Fix in London of $881 an ounce – the best level vs. the Dollar since Oct. 10th.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, December 29, 2008
Crude Oil 2009 Golden Opportunity for Investors / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes: Oil prices have fallen 70% since hitting a record $147.27 a barrel in July, which means in just five months, crude has given up all the price gains it made in the past four years.
After such a wrenching plunge, many analysts believe the outlook for the “black gold” remains bleak – and in the short term it certainly is. In the long run, however, dwindling supplies, resurgent demand, and a lack of investment will cause crude oil to double, triple, or even quintuple in price over the next few years.
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Friday, December 26, 2008
Stock Market Chaos on the Horizon? Invest in Real Assets / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: The_Gold_Report
Buckle your seat belts. Bob Moriarty, 321gold.com founder, pulls no punches in his latest exclusive interview with The Gold Report. He sees a short-term rally in the stock market but paints a very sobering longer-term picture with "guaranteed hyperinflation." He believes precious metals and other “things” are the only safety nets. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, December 26, 2008
Gold Review 2008 and Outlook Forecast 2009 / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
What happened to gold in 2008? In 2008, the gold market began the year with a normal bull market pullback from its highs of $1,035 to the very low $900 level. Jewelry had already begun to recover as the gold price dropped, but then the impact of the "investor meltdown", through forced selling by investors, selling what they could to cover losses in other markets, hit gold too. To make matters worse, in the U.S.A. so many investors had paid, from only a 10% deposit up to a 50% deposit, on the shares they owned. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, December 26, 2008
The Ghost of Crude Oil Futures (Part 1) / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Oxbury_Research
John Whitehall writes: Most people have heard the phrase, “it takes a big man to admit when he's wrong”.
Well, I'm about 5'9”, and I don't believe that people should be exalted when they do something that they're supposed to do. It doesn't make you a big man, it makes you honest. You're supposed to be honest.
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Friday, December 26, 2008
Gold Secular Bull Market Investing Fundamentals / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Zeal_LLC
Gold belongs in every investor's portfolio. It is totally unique among financial assets, a physical metal commanding timeless and universal intrinsic value. It is a rock of stability in a chaotic world, a stark contrast to the complex web of mere promises to pay that is our modern faith-based financial system. Without gold, true diversification and protection from systemic risk is impossible.
Gold's fundamentals are dazzlingly bullish. Like everything else on the planet that is freely bought and sold, gold's price today and in the future is a direct function of its supply and demand. As long as its global demand exceeds its global supply on balance, gold's price will continue powering higher in its secular bull. While it has already come far from its humble beginnings in the $250s in April 2001, it has a long way to run yet.
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Friday, December 26, 2008
Silver and Gold More Than Just A Christmas Carol / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Oxbury_Research
Silver and gold, silver and gold
Ev’ryone wishes for silver and gold
How do you measure its worth?
Just by the pleasure it gives here on earth
... or so goes the well-known Christmas carol you've probably heard several times already during this holiday season. But aside from the decorations in your home and office, how much gold do you actually own right now in your portfolio?
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Friday, December 26, 2008
Insolvent Financial System Signals Much Higher Gold Price / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
By: Jim_Willie_CB
Many people are very confused these days. They should be. Slowly the nation is coming to grips with a harsh reality that a garden variety recession has not dug its roots inside the body economic of the United States. This is much worse. This is an economic and financial system horribly plagued by insolvency, with vicious cycles causing severe momentum in the damage, where the entire system is facing potential ruin in a disintegration sequence during a virtually unstoppable liquidation process. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Uranium Investing- Analysts Forgot Yellow Cake / Commodities / Uranium
By: Oxbury_Research
Nicholas Jones writes: The financial analytical business is one of comic and irony. During prospering economic times, the aggregate success of financial analysts' ability to make their clients money is very high on a percentage basis.
When the economic worm turns, the field of financial analysis turns into this sort of absurd puppet show. It's really a simple notion. It's just easier to make money in bull markets.
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