Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
The TRUTH about China’s Massive Gold Hoard / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Jeff_Clark
I don’t want to say that mainstream analysts are stupid when it comes to China’s gold habits, but I did look up how to say that word in Chinese…
One report claims, for example, that gold demand in China is down because the yuan has fallen and made the metal more expensive in the country. Sounds reasonable, and it has a grain of truth to it. But as you’ll see below, it completely misses the bigger picture, because it overlooks a major development with how the country now imports precious metals.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Bitcoin Price Medium-term Trend Being Tested / Commodities / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
Briefly: we still support long speculative positions in the market, stop-loss at $550.
We read an interesting piece on Business Insider which brought up the ideas of Fred Wilson, founder of Union Square Ventures and a Bitcoin investor. Wilson earlier spoke for the NYC Foundation for Computer Science Education and expressed his views on Bitcoin:
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
As Russia's Isolation Grows, Oil Companies Caught in Middle / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: OilPrice_Com
The confrontation between Russia and the West took a turn for the worse with the downing of a Malaysian airliner on July 17, and that could spell trouble for several major oil companies operating in Russia.Just one day earlier, U.S. President Barack Obama slapped sanctions on Russia over its ongoing role in the destabilization of Ukraine. The sanctions prohibited American banks from issuing loans with a maturity of over 90 days to four key Russian companies – Rosneft, Novatek, Gazprombank, and VEB.
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Monday, July 21, 2014
Gold Price Looking Drab / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Austin_Galt
Gold needs a shine to get it’s sparkle back. In the good ole days, news the likes of the Malaysia Airlines crash would have sent gold soaring. But that’s the difference between a bull trend and a bear trend. Good news in a bear trend can see a small burst of optimism before turning back down and making the whole experience rather underwhelming. There has been so much turmoil in the world the last few years but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the gold chart. Let’s do just that beginning with the daily chart.
Monday, July 21, 2014
An In-Depth Look at Gold Chartology / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Rambus_Chartology
In this report I would like to take an in depth look at gold as there could be some important developments taking place that didn't show up until this weeks volatile swings. Keep in mind a week ago this particular pattern didn't exist as there was no evidence in place to even speculate on what what I'm seeing right now. As you know things can change very fast in the markets especially when the volatility increases as we seen this week. One always has to keep an open mind and look at what the markets are giving us to work with.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
The Banks Are Manipulating Silver Prices / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Investment_U
Sean Brodrick writes: The big banks have smashed gold and silver lower this week, and after that shellacking, you'd have to be crazy to buy precious metals, right?
Yeah. Crazy like a fox.
If you're smart, you're going to put on your big-boy pants and buy silver right now.
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Saturday, July 19, 2014
Gold And Silver – BRICS And Germany Will Pave The Way / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Michael_Noonan
There is no one singular event that will ultimately loosen the manipulative shackles that the elite's central bankers have maintained on the PMs [Precious Metals], as evidence continues to mount that Western countries, and the US, especially, are going under economically and financially. All central banks are insolvent, kept afloat by lies. The accounting rules have been changes to allow banks to price their assets however the banks choose. Most, if not all central banks assets, [just about all banks, as well] are worthless, or near worthless.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Domestic and Indian Gold Price Rally Points to a Strong Second Half / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Frank_Holmes
Earlier this week we reported that gold, defying expectations, is one of the best-performing commodities of the year so far.
And now we've learned that gold bullion imports by India climbed a stunning 65 percent last month after the country's central bank allowed more investors to buy foreign bullion. Imports rose to $3.12 billion in June from $1.89 billion this time last year.
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Friday, July 18, 2014
Will Gold Price Drag Down the Mining Stocks? / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2014
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
We know that the gold and silver stocks lead the metals at key turning points. The stocks started their bear market well ahead of Gold. This year the stocks have exhibited excellent relative strength. Gold and Silver are up less than 10% this year while GDX is up 27% and GDXJ is up 43%. In recent days GDX and GDXJ reached 10-month highs relative to Gold. SIL hit a 10-month high relative to Silver while SILJ, the silver juniors hit an 18-month high against Silver. The outlook for the miners remains positive but the miners are awaiting and need more strength from Gold.
Friday, July 18, 2014
Gold Price Sharp Consolidation / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Alasdair_Macleod
Before yesterday's (Thursday) rise in bullion prices, precious metals were in corrective mode this week after recent rises. There were two big stand-out sales of gold contracts on Monday, estimated to be about 5,000 contracts at the European opening, and 15,000 on the US opening. The combination of the two sales drove gold down over $30, and on Tuesday a further sale of 15,000 contracts drove the price down to a low of $1293 for a total fall of $45.
Friday, July 18, 2014
Silver Before it’s Too Late / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The ongoing plight of the long term value investor continues - seemingly without end. However, decades of exuberance and greed have colluded. The financial establishment has created an accident waiting to happen. The mainstream has not "priced in" risk, which makes it even harder to travel the road less traveled.And once the accident happens, it may be too late.
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Friday, July 18, 2014
Japanese Restart Nuclear Reactors Reigniting Uranium Mining Sector / Commodities / Uranium
By: Jeb_Handwerger
Summary
- Contrarian investors buy uranium stocks when the banks and large miners cut their price targets.
- Japan announced that two nuclear reactors were approved for restart.
- The Japanese Nuclear Restart could change the negative and bearish sentiment on the uranium mining sector.
- Uranium decline has been due to Japan shutting down reactors. The price may begin rising as nuclear reactors are turned back on.
- Be prepared for a rally in the uranium mining sector as end user look to once again begin securing long term uranium supply.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Oil Path Signals Wrong Way For World Energy / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Andrew_McKillop
Energy Worlds Apart
Recent publication of this year's BP Statistical Review of World Energy illustrates several mega trends in world oil and for energy in general. The Review provides time-series charts where the key change decade of 2003-2013 is covered. These underline how the primacy of oil is threatened. To be sure, wrong way data and false flag trends exist – for example and in particular that China and the US, the world's two biggest economies and two biggest oil importers, now import about a half of the oil they each consume and use.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Jurisdiction - So You Think Your Gold is Safe Outside The Country? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
Without looking at the facts and issues involved one would think that the U.S. can reach into any land outside its borders [except Russia] and impose its tax will and political will on others. The cases against the Swiss banks, UBS, Credit Suisse and other banks together with the fine on BNP Parisbas and the banning of its use of the dollar for a year with potentially other foreign banks facing the same punishment, gives rise to this viewpoint.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Gold - The Million DOLLAR Question... / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Rambus_Chartology
Today I would like to take a look at the US dollar as its been showing a little strength lately. Over the last month or two I've been showing some commodities indexes that have been very weak which I think has to do with the strengthening US dollar. The move up in the US dollar hasn't been that big yet but it could be in the beginning stages of a rally phase that could send this index higher. How high is anyone's guess but any strength will have an impact on the commodities sector and possibly the precious metals complex. It has been awhile since we looked at the US dollar so lets take a look under the hood and see what we can make of the reserve currency.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Outlook for Gold, Stocks, Economy by Incrementum’s Advisory Board / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: GoldSilverWorlds
In March, we released the minutes of the first Advisory Board meeting by Incrementum Liechtenstein, see the summary Will Inflation Make A Comeback In 2014 When The Consensus Worries About Deflation. As discussed, Incrementum had launched the “Austrian Economics Golden Opportunities Fund,” a fund that takes investment positions based on the level of inflation based on their proprietary “Incrementum Inflation Signal.” Incrementum Liechtenstein has Ronald Stoeferle, author of In Gold We Trust, as managing partner, and Mark Valek as partner.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Silver Price Up Trend an Mining Stock Investor's Friend / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2014
By: The_Gold_Report
An upward trend is afoot in the silver space, says Sean Rakhimov, editor of SilversStrategies.com. Rakhimov believes that at $26/ounce the reversal of the downward trend in silver will be confirmed and silver investors should set their sights on the next resistance level—$32/ounce. And if that threshold is breached, silver will test $50/ounce and more. In this interview with The Gold Report, Rakhimov talks about a few silver miners that are well positioned to ride this trend perhaps several multiples higher.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Which Way is Inflation Blowing? Watch Commodities / Commodities / Inflation
By: Gary_Dorsch
In an age when governments of every political leaning and ideological stripe distort economic data to promote their parties’ interests, it is hardly surprising that the nation’s inflation rate is reported in a manner that best suits their political needs. By the same token, in an age of near universal cynicism on the part of citizens towards their corrupt politicians, - it is entirely natural for official inflation data to be wildly at odds with the reality faced by consumers and businesses, and in turn, to be regarded with utter disbelief.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
The Best Way to Play the Looming Propane Crunch / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: You may not realize this, but propane is about a lot more than just firing up the family grill.
In a very real sense, it’s the lifeblood of the entire rural lifestyle.
In the countryside, propane heats more than six million homes, fuels equipment and vehicle fleets, and is instrumental on farms for drying grain for storage and keeping livestock-filled barns warm in the winter.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Looking for the Next Oil Boom? Follow the Tech / Commodities / Oil Companies
By: OilPrice_Com
Much larger than Eagle Ford and once thought to have reached peak production, new technology has brought us full circle back to the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico, where the recent shift to horizontal well drilling has rendered this play the unconventional ground zero.
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