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By Martin Hutchinson |
May 23, 2012
Over the last twelve months mining stocks have substantially underperformed the market. When you look more closely at operating numbers, the weakness in commodity shares is easier to explain.
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By J.W. Jones |
April 30, 2012
If the US dollar pushes down below the recent lows and we get continuation to the downside, we will break the recent bullish pattern. However, if the dollar finds a bottom and rallies it clearly would create a headwind.
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By Diane Alter |
April 16, 2012
With ample stores and cheap prices, natural gas-related equities have taken a beating and continue to be battered. While it is always difficult to call a bottom, the tide may be turning for natural gas companies despite the latest data.
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By J.W. Jones |
March 27, 2012
If my expectations are somewhat accurate, the short term weakness in the Dollar will assist stocks and risk assets in a move above recent highs. In the case of the S&P 500, a move to key resistance at 1420–1450 could occur.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
March 2, 2012
If you feel like this market has sucked you down a rabbit hole, you have plenty of company. I have never seen such a profusion of contrary cross market indicators. They say the market climbs a wall of worry. This one is climbing the Great Wall of China.
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By Philip Burgert |
February 6, 2012
Commodity price risk that is now to the upside and Barclays Capital analysts believe that 2012 is going to be a good one for producers of industrial metals and precious metals, Kevin Norrish, the bank’s managing director of commodities research, told the Investing in African Mining Indaba here Monday.
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By Alasdair Macleod |
January 13, 2012
Precious metals should fare well. Industry will want to build silver stocks to lock in low prices, conflicting with physical demand from investors, and gold should get a significant boost from the change in the inflationary outlook.
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By Brian Sylvester |
January 2, 2012
The author of the Big Picture Speculator says new technologies offer the industry and investors profitable opportunities as shale gas, shale oil and enhanced oil recovery are true "game changers."
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By Adrian Ash |
December 22, 2011
Spot gold prices were little changed Thursday morning in London, trading at $1,610 per ounce after yesterday's sharp spike and pullback in what dealers again called "thin" trade ahead of Christmas.
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By Ilya Spivak |
September 15, 2011
Gold continues to show a strong inverse relationship with the S&P 500, hinting at losses ahead. Improving US economic data ought to reinforce selling pressure, with diminishing hopes for another round of quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve.
