
Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Monday, April 28, 2008
Gold and China's Coming Flood of Wealth / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
I have just returned from a 10-day trip to Southern China and Hong Kong. While I was there, I explored the Chinese attitude toward gold. If their demand for gold equaled that of other nation's average individual holdings, then we would see their demand well into four figures. I wanted to know if the Chinese would really move towards gold in their portfolios.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, April 28, 2008
Gold Strengthens Ahead of US Fed Interest Rate Cut Decision / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Adrian_Ash
THE PRICE OF PHYSICAL GOLD rose 0.9% during Asian and early London trade Monday, recovering Friday's drop as world equity and commodity indexes ticked some 0.5% higher.Rice and wheat futures rose, while Japanese bond yields continued to sell off after Friday's CPI report showed the highest rate of inflation in ten years.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Gold's March Through $1000 Halted by Feds Creative Policy Towards Creating Liquidity / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Joe_Nicholson
“The rally in gold since December was almost entirely speculative, flight to quality and dollar hedging that will unwind very quickly when conditions change. If a reversal in the dollar has indeed begun, oil will move lower, but not as much as gold. Gold has now defined a clear range and taking any large positions while inside that range is no better than gambling. In the 900-955 area both counts are still valid, which suggests playing the break of the range in whichever direction.” ~ Precious Points: G.O.L.D. (Gold, Oil, Dollar, Libor ), April 20, 2008Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Crude OIl Hits $119- Ways to Profit From Peak Oil / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: Martin_Hutchinson
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said a few months ago that if the United States invades Iran , we could expect to see oil at $200 a barrel. With oil already approaching the $120 mark, we may get there even without invading Iran.
[Perhaps President Chavez could be tempted out of his chaos-causing rule in Caracas with the offer of a rich and perk-filled oil-analyst's job at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ( GS )].
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Gold Threatens Break of $870 to Trigger Long-term Bear Signal / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Merv_Burak
That was another week we could have done without. Gold and gold stocks seem to be sitting on top of support levels. This next week just might be a very interesting week as far as telling us if the downside continues or if we may see a rise.
GOLD : LONG TERM
The long term P&F chart, shown in these commentaries a few weeks back, has now come back to the $885 level, where it rallied from earlier. However, a further drop to $870 will break below its up trend line and two previous lows to give us a long term BEAR signal. Should that happen the previous projections would become operative with an initial move to $840 and then on to $660. This new move, should it occur, would provide a further projection to $600, so we have potential projections all over the place, and all of them would be P&F valid IF gold should drop to the $870 level (based upon the June 2008 futures contract). Sounds ominous but let's see what the normal charts and indicators are telling us.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Global Food Crisis Investing Special / Commodities / Food Crisis
By: Nadeem_Walayat

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Saturday, April 26, 2008
Silver and Gold at Critical Juncture / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Roland_Watson

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Saturday, April 26, 2008
Gold and Silver Fall Out of Favor / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: David_Morgan
It seems many once notable gold and silver bugs have abandoned the precious for what? In these uncertain financial times selling precious metals may look wise in the short term but what investment class is doing better? It appears the U.S. dollar is going to swim against the main downward forces and stage a counter trend rally through perhaps the summer and that may just be the opportunity that savvy precious metals investors are looking for to accumulate.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, April 25, 2008
Should Gold Investors Worry on Dip Below $900 on Dollar Strength? / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Andy_Sutton

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Friday, April 25, 2008
Crude Oil Bull Market is Sustainable Due to Supply Fundamentals / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Zeal_LLC
Crude oil is one of the hottest commodities on the planet these days. Almost without respite, it has surged 16% in April alone! It closed at new all-time record highs on 8 of the past 11 trading days. Pushing $120 per barrel now, the fabled $100 price point that the markets feared for so many years now seems modest.
Commodities bulls have been long oil and oil stocks for many years now, so oil's strength isn't too surprising. Naturally we attribute its powerful advance to a global supply and demand imbalance. Oil demand is simply growing a lot faster than oil supply, so higher prices are the only way to retard demand and accelerate production until a new equilibrium price is reached.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
US Hot Dry Summer Forecast Bullish for Energy and Agricultural Investments / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Joseph_Dancy

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Friday, April 25, 2008
Gold Falls to Test Strong Support at $875 / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold was down $19.40 to $886.80 per ounce in trading in New York yesterday and silver was down 50 cents to $16.66 per ounce. The London AM Gold Fix at 1030 GMT this morning was at $883.50, £446.51 and €566.38 (from $900.75 £455.85 and €572.09 yesterday).Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, April 25, 2008
Crude Oil Heading for $134 During 2008 Despite Near-term Weakness / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Donald_W_Dony

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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Plunging Resource Supplies Results in Soaring Profits / Commodities / Resources Investing
By: Yiannis_G_Mostrous

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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Gold Follows Euro Lower On German Economic Confidence Numbers / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Adrian_Ash
SPOT GOLD slipped to a fresh three-week low beneath $898 per ounce early Thursday in London , as a sharp bounce in the US Dollar forced a drop in equities, crude oil and the Euro.Short-term US Treasury bonds also capped their eight-day losing streak, however, pushing the two-year yield down to 2.20%.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Crude Oil Bulls Show Technical Signs of Weakening / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Black_Swan
There’s not a whole lot of technical analysis you can do when an underlying security or asset is shooting straight up through uncharted territory, record high after record high.
But regardless of the situation, you can always analyze price action one day at a time.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
How to Protect Yourself and Profit from the Global Food Price Crisis / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: William_Patalon_III
When the leader of the United Nation's World Food Programme warned that a "silent tsunami" of hunger is sweeping the globe because of soaring food prices, a lot of folks probably viewed it as just another clever sound bite tossed off by a bureaucrat.
Don't you believe it.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Gold Falls to Support at $900 / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold broke down from its range bound channel yesterday and quickly fell to support at $895-$900 as anticipated. Should gold fall below $900 we could again retest the support of the early April lows of $880. We expect strong support at these levels but there is a possibility that should gold close below $880 we could retest previous resistance at the 1980 nominal high of $850 per ounce.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Crude Oil Tops $119! What's Next ... / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Money_and_Markets
Sean Brodrick writes: Since trading as low as $50.53 early in 2007, oil prices have exploded higher, stunning the world. Just yesterday, crude jumped to a new all-time high above $119 a barrel!
Consumers would probably be happy just to see oil fall back to $100 a barrel. How sad is that?
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Gold Bull Market Drivers: Cheap Money, Rapid Inflation / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Jim_Willie_CB

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