Analysis Topic: Commodity Markets - Metals, Softs & Oils
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Central Bankers Are Gaming Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: The_Gold_Report
Some people may look at the stock market and see economic recovery. Eric Sprott of Sprott Asset Management and Sprott Money looks at myriad other economic indicators and sees an economy still in decline. Despite his suspicions that central banks are keeping gold prices artificially low, he tells The Gold Report that he favors gold, platinum, palladium and especially silver, over the near and long term.
The Gold Report: The price of gold has dipped under $1,600/ounce ($1,600/oz); silver is below $30/oz. Is this a case of living by the sword and dying by the sword, where precious metals prices only go up in a bad economy and are doomed to languish when things go well?
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Monday, March 04, 2013
Silver Prices Defy the “Law of Supply and Demand” / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: DeviantInvestor
Mike McGill writes: Let’s begin with a definition. Investopedia.com defines the Law of Supply and Demand as follows:
The effect that the availability of a particular product and the desire (or demand) for that product has on price. Generally, if there is a low supply and a high demand, the price will be high. In contrast, the greater the supply and the lower the demand, the lower the price will be.
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Monday, March 04, 2013
China’s $3.3 Trillion FX Reserves Could Buy All World’s Gold Twice / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,578.00, EUR 1,214.13 and GBP 1,049.06 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,570.00, EUR 1,203.99 and GBP 1,043.74 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $28.75/oz, €22.11/oz and £19.20/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,584.25/oz, palladium at $719.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.
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Monday, March 04, 2013
Gold Upside "Limited" Despite Comex Repositioning / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ben_Traynor
THE SPOT gold price dropped to $1575 per ounce Monday morning in London, broadly in line with where it ended last week, while stocks ticked lower and the Euro held steady near two-month lows against the Dollar ahead of this Thursday's European Central Bank policy meeting.
"For gold, the trending and momentum indicators are pointing lower," says a note from UBS, "indicating any upside in the near-term must be limited."
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Monday, March 04, 2013
Reasons to Sell Gold and Silver Now / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Shelby_H_Moore
Sell or hedge a portion of your physical. Sell all mining stock asap.
Gold may dive below $1200 and silver below $21 ($1400 is very likely), due
to fact that USA $1.2 trillion fiscal cuts are going to occur. Obama wants
to use this to make the public hate the Republicans, so he can get a
majority in Congress at the mid-term elections, so then he can run the
country like a dictatorship his last 2 years.
Monday, March 04, 2013
A detailed look at Bank of England Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Alasdair_Macleod
The London Bullion Market is the global trading centre for physical gold, and the Bank of England holds gold on behalf of other central banks. There are a number of historical reasons the Bank has this privileged role, but the most important are that the Bank is trusted, and it oversees the largest bullion market by far. Therefore a significant portion of the world’s monetary gold should be stored at the Bank of England.
Sunday, March 03, 2013
Gold Set for Next Major Uptrend to Break to New All Time Highs / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Clive_Maund
COTs, sentiment and public opinion and a raft of technical indicators are all at low extremes that continue to indicate that gold is marking out a major low here and set to reverse to the upside before long. So you can safely ignore all the fair weather pundits who are coming out of the woodwork to proclaim gold's bullmarket dead, and also the plethora of bearish articles appearing in the mainstream media at Big Money's behest in order to squeeze the last drop of blood out of the little guy before the next big rally starts.
Sunday, March 03, 2013
Silver Believed to Have Bottomed Ahead of Major Uptrend / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Clive_Maund
The big story with silver is that the Commercials are continuing to unwind their earlier massive short position at a very rapid rate, and of course booking massive profits in the process. We had pointed out in the last update that until their short positions eased further, silver was likely to back and fill and that's what happened last week, as after a 4-day rally into Tuesday, silver dropped back for the rest of the week to make a new intraday low on Friday.
Sunday, March 03, 2013
Why Gazprom Will Bite The Bullet - Soon / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Andrew_McKillop
WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS
One of the most classic-possible rent situations exists in Europe, with its overpriced energy markets. Sometimes the rent is only created inside the bloc, and consumed there by its owners - the corporate, bankster State price fixing fraternity. But in other cases like oil and especially gas, the rent is shared with foreign partners of the elite crowd: for gas price gouging, this is now unsustainable.
Saturday, March 02, 2013
HUI Gold Bull Market Elephant in the Room! / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2013
By: Rambus_Chartology
The Elephant in the room that nobody see’s. The monthly charts shows the price actions closing for the month of February below the neckline.
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Saturday, March 02, 2013
Silver Prices and the Mortgage Market — A Tale of Two Interventions / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
A comparison of two types of intervention has become interesting with respect to silver. First of all, Central Planning support of the mortgage and housing markets has already reached the supernova stage.
There seems nowhere left to go, as real interest rates are already negative. Furthermore, over 90 percent of the mortgage market is now backed by Federal agencies.
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Saturday, March 02, 2013
Hope is Fear Gone Bad for Paper Silver Shorts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The price pattern in silver and gold remains intact. It shows that each time these precious metals are pushed below a key technical moving average, new buyers come into the market.
Most are weak hands, speculators or amateur traders who have fallen in love with the idea of a futures contract, although the original longs have still refused to trade their valuable metal for intrinsically worthless paper dollars.
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Friday, March 01, 2013
The Importance of Silver Price Breakdown / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: P_Radomski_CFA
Investors sentiment for precious metals and gold and silver mining stocks has deteriorated quite substantially recently. And silver is no exception here, which can be seen on the white metal charts. However, the situation in the whole sector is extreme – the oversold readings on many technical indicators and the fact that very important support lines are currently in play in virtually any asset in the sector form a setup as (or even more) encouraging for potential buyers as what we saw in 2008. To see what we can expect on the silver market, let us move into today’s technical part – we will start with the white metal’s very long-term chart (charts courtesy by http://stockcharts.com.)
Friday, March 01, 2013
Gold Bullion and Miners' Race to the Bottom / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ashraf_Laidi
Since equities had reached bottom in June 2012, major indices have rallied 21% to today, compared to -1% for gold bullion and -20% for the Gold Bugs index - An index of the 16 most popular gold mining companies.
The Gold Bugs index has fallen 31% from its September high, while the yellow metal dropped 13% from its October high. A similar 2.5-1 disparity in GoldBugs-Bullion Sell-off was seen during the 2008 crisis, when bullion fell 33% from its 2008 peak to its 2008 trough, while Gold Bugs fell 71% during the same period.
Friday, March 01, 2013
Gold Down In February As Weak Hands Sell On Poor Sentiment; Whilst Smart Adds / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,570.00, EUR 1,203.99 and GBP 1,043.74 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,591.00, EUR 1,213.39 and GBP 1,049.20 per ounce.
Gold fell $16.70 or 1.05% yesterday in New York and closed at $1,580.40/oz. Silver slid to a low of $28.40 and finished with a loss of 1.66%.
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Friday, March 01, 2013
Too Early to Proclaim Gold Bull Market Over / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ben_Traynor
SPOT MARKET gold bullion fell to one-week lows below $1570 per ounce Friday morning, on course for a third straight weekly loss, having ended February down 5.9% as gold exchange traded funds saw their biggest calendar month bullion outflows on record.
"ETFs will probably contribute negatively to investment demand for the first time in eight quarters," says today's Commerzbank commodities note.
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Friday, March 01, 2013
Will We See Consolidation in Gold Stocks Mining Industry? / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2013
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
As the gold mining sector plunges to the end of a cyclical bear market, one wonders if this ongoing selling climax will precipitate a catalyst for more mergers and acquisitions in the industry. The last 12 years tells us that these transactions tend to follow the market itself but with a lag. Peaks in M&A activity (in global mining) in terms of number of transactions and value occurred in 2006-2007 and 2010-2011 while troughs occurred in 2002 and 2008-2009. According to Ernst & Young, 2012 had the lowest number of global mining deals since 2008 and the lowest in terms of value since 2009. On a smaller microeconomic level, the current depths of the junior mining industry and low share prices across the board should provide a catalyst for more deal flow. Going forward I believe we will see industry consolidation but in two separate different phases which will produce different winners.
Friday, March 01, 2013
Gold Teetering on the Brink, The Bubble of Fear Pops! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Andrew_Butter
I posted something about gold early last September when the price was $1,750; the message was “Be Wary”. http://seekingalpha.com/article/854061-oil-and-gold-still-joined-at-the-hip-be-waryAs expected I got some deliciously abusive comments thrown like rotten-eggs; from behind the safe anonymity of pen-names; my favorite this time was:
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Friday, March 01, 2013
Gold Investors Checking the Exits in the Roach Motel / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Adrian_Ash
What is liquidity, and why does it matter...?
Gold investors were selling this month. Some have found it easy, getting top price albeit in a falling market.
But others will have hit problems, struggling to find enough potential buyers to do anything besides take what they could get.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
How to Profit from High Gasoline Prices / Commodities / Gas - Petrol
By: Investment_U
David Fessler writes: If you live in a major city, there’s a good chance you rely on some form of public transportation to get around. The rest of us, however, are stuck visiting the gas pumps.
Since the beginning of 2013, it’s been anything but a happy New Year, at least as far as gasoline prices are concerned. Since January 1st, the average price for a gallon of regular gas is up about 45 cents.
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