Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Gold Downtrend Technical Update / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Nadeem_Walayat
This is a quick update of the Gold forecast trend to between $800 to $830. For the background to the forecast see the two previous articles -
- 03 Apr 2008 - Gold Downtrend Forecast Update
- 20 Mar 2008 - DELEVERAGING- Gold and Commodities Teetering on the Brink of a Bear Market?
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Derivatives - The Real Dangers to Commodities! / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
The visible dangers of derivatives have been well documented on the internet, as the dangers of their collapse have the same potential as the sub-prime crisis is having now, but the long-term upward drive in commodity prices should limit the threat to a process of de-leveraging, as we have already seen in the large lowering of net speculative long gold positions on COMEX. But we are going to highlight a potentially more destructive facet of derivative here.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Gold Fails at Resistance Triggering Downtrend / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Merv_Burak
It looked for a while there like gold could break above its previous rally high but a weak momentum and weak volume action put a halt to that idea. Now what?
GOLD LONG TERM
With the action over the past week or so and especially on Friday one might wonder where the long term P&F chart is now. Well, it has changed little since presented last in this commentary on 04 April 2008 . It is in a serious downward trend and has given us down side projections, once a reversal has been confirmed, but the reversal has not yet been confirmed, by my criteria. The price of gold would have to drop to $870 for a reversal to be confirmed. Should that happen then the projections to $840 and $660 come into play.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
How to Profit from the Worlds Vanishing Seafood- "Live Gold!" / Commodities / Resources Investing
By: Money_and_Markets
All the Johnny-come-latelies are finally waking up to some of the things I've been warning you about — and helping you profit from — for years now ...
For example, the world's deepening water crisis, which I brought to the surface way back in August 2005, even being one of the first, if not the first analyst to coin the term "blue gold."
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Why Gold Was 'Hacked' Friday- and How / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Alex_Wallenwein
The market delivered a huge"drubbing" to gold and silver Friday– or at least that's what thefinancial powers want you to think. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Investors Pick Your Poison Now / Commodities / Resources Investing
By: Kurt_Kasun
The "true grit" of the American investor was on display today as earnings from JP Morgan and Coca-Cola buttressed earnings from Intel, and the tech sector lead all of the indexes higher in today's commendable rally as a result. Never mind endlessly exploding oil prices, a beige book report which confirms the further deterioration of the economy across much of the nation, and a housing report that shows that new starts have plunged to the lowest level in 17 years. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, April 18, 2008
Making Sense of Precious Markets Turbulence- Gold, Silver, HUI Technical's / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Zeal_LLC
After an exceptionally turbulent month in the precious-metals complex, many traders are trying to make sense out of all the chaos. Did the recent violent retreats in gold, silver, and the HUI gold-stock index likely mark the ends of their respective uplegs? Or do these strong uplegs probably remain intact?
Obviously this question is crucial as the prudent tactical trading strategy going forward varies radically based on its answer. If these PM uplegs have given up their ghosts, then it makes sense for traders to unload their remaining long positions and maybe even get short. But if these PM uplegs persist, then the gains to come will still be reaped on the long side.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Gold Price Is Not Going To Crash / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: David_Vaughn
Gold Price Is Not Going To CrashAs I look in the newspaper I see a lot of interesting predictions. Some analysts are predicting 6% unemployment by the end of the year. Microsoft is desperately trying to buy Yahoo. Offering 41 billion for a company whose major asset is the Internet.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Gold Plunges 3.4% on Dollar Rallies, Rising Banking Stocks on Bad News / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Adrian_Ash
Gold Plunges 3.4% on Dollar Rallies, Rising Banking Stocks on Bad NewsSPOT GOLD PRICES dumped 3.4% to $912 per ounce in the first-half of London trade on Friday, falling to a five-session low of $916 per ounce as both commodity and bond prices fell, but European stock markets rose.
Crude oil dipped one dollar from yesterday's new record high above $115.50 per barrel as the US currency rallied from new record lows in the forex market.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Rogers and Soros- Investors Shifting to Real Assets Including Gold and Oil / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold was up in Asian trading to $946 per ounce before falling in London trading this morning to $936 per ounce. Gold was down $5.30 to $939.80 per ounce in trading in New York yesterday and silver was down 13 cents to $18.18 per ounce. The London AM Gold Fix at 1030 GMT this morning was at $942.25, £472.19 €592.31 (from $951.50, £481.04 and €595.88 yesterday).Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Kinross Gold Corporation Re-visited / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Bob_Kirtley
Kinross Gold Corporation, has made terrific progress a since it was established in 1993 and is now the third largest primary gold producer in North America by reserves. All its nine mines are in relatively politically stable countries such as the United States , Brazil , Chile and Russia . Canadian based Kinross employs more than 5,000 people worldwide. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Causes of Global Food Crisis- Time for Honesty!! / Commodities / Food Crisis
By: Brian_Bloom
Causes of Global Food Crisis- Time for Honesty!!This was one of the drivers: “Biofuels Security Act of 2007 - Amends the Clean Air Act to replace provisions prescribing the volume of renewable fuel that gasoline sold in the United States must contain with provisions that require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine the applicable volume for 2010 and beyond. Requires such [renewable fuel] volume to be at least 10 billion gallons in 2010, 30 billion gallons in 2020, and 60 billion gallons in 2030.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
No Bubble in Agricultural Commodities / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Michael_Pento
All investors have become contrarians and are now experts in being able to spot bubbles. Hence, they all are fully aware that a bubble exists in agricultural commodities at this juncture. Really, you can listen to just about any financial source and hear someone warning about the epic bubble that is evident in agricultural commodity prices. However, some of these same folks were completely blindsided by the collapse of the tech bubble in 2000. And they also were shocked that real estate prices could ever decline in value. Of course, this new class of maverick investor is also currently incapable of viewing the real bubble occurring in the Treasury market (it doesn't bother them that real yields on government debt are negative). The only thing they are sure of is that agricultural prices are poised to plummet. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Global Food Crisis- How to Protect Your Portfolio / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Money_and_Markets
Sean Brodrick writes: The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that world cereal production may jump a record 2.6% this year as farmers boost plantings.
In other words, supply is fine.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Gold Reaches Four Week High as Investors Dump Dollars for Oil / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Adrian_Ash
SPOT GOLD PRICES for physical delivery reached a four-week high Thursday morning in London , recording an AM Fix of $951.50 per ounce as investors and trade swapped the fast-fading US Dollar for anything and everything bar the Japanese Yen.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Gold Deja vu Rally on Back of New Record Dollar Low Against Euro and New Crude Oil High / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold is up in Asian trading and London trading this morning. Gold was up $17.80 to $945.10 per ounce in trading in New York yesterday and silver was up 54 cents to $18.31 per ounce. The London AM Gold Fix at 1030 GMT this morning was at $951.50, £481.04 and €595.88 (from $932.75, £472.40 and £586.27 yesterday).Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Gold Jumps as US Dollar Sinks on Inflation Data / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Adrian_Ash
THE SPOT PRICE OF GOLD jumped to a three-week high early Wednesday after European and US inflation data sent traders scurrying for hard assets and the Euro single currency shot to new record highs vs. the Dollar.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Crude Oil Record High Buoys Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold is up in London this morning. Gold was up $2.60 to $927.80 per ounce in trading in New York yesterday and silver was up 2 cents to $17.79 per ounce. The London AM Gold Fix at 1030 GMT this morning was at $932.75, £472.40 and £586.27 (from $ 931.75, £473.55 and €588.30 yesterday).Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Uranium Stocks Bottom Update / Commodities / Uranium
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
Two months ago I penned an editorial calling bottom on the uranium stocks. Technically I saw many stocks deeply oversold yet positive momentum was starting to build. A few months later and the positive momentum divergences have continued to build. A few U stocks did indeed bottom but more have made slight new lows. While we need price to confirm a bottom it is important to note that forming significant bottoms can be a timely process. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Food Inflation- Rising Price of Chickens / Commodities / Livestock
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Your Buffalo Wings may cost you more. As this week's chart portrays, the cash price of broilers appears ready for a breakout to the upside. Broilers are younger chickens bred for meat consumption, like that used for the popular chicken wrap sandwiches every fast food restaurant seems to be offering. Consumption of chi cken has been generally strong due to the shift from red meats and rising preferences for chicken in a variety of forms.Read full article... Read full article...