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By Marshall Swing |
May 10, 2012
Here is the CME Daily Bulletin report from April 26, the most significant day of last week for you to see the most active volume month and the second most active volume month.
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By Jon Nadler |
May 7, 2012
Spot gold lost $5 on the open to start the new week with a bid at $1,637 the ounce. Silver fell 20 cents to the $30.14 mark per ounce. Platinum climbed $5 to $1,528 while palladium rose $2 to $651 the ounce.
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By Jon Nadler |
April 18, 2012
This morning, the midweek session in New York opened lower as gold notched a fourth day of losses, and traded near $1,640 per ounce. Anxieties connected to China’s economy flared in the wake of reports that home prices in that country fell again.
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By Jon Nadler |
March 26, 2012
Last week’s wide price swings continued to befuddle and frustrate speculators in the commodities’ space and for a fourth consecutive week the results revealed that hedge fund players placed their bets incorrectly in these markets.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
March 5, 2012
If a policy fails twice, then why repeat it a third time? If quantitative easing is truly well and done for good, how will the risk markets respond when they figure this out? The mother of all hangovers could be a safe bet.
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By Jon Nadler |
March 2, 2012
Friday’s initial tilt in the precious metals markets was to the downside as the US dollar continued to strengthen and it reached 79.30 on the trade-weighted index. Gold spot prices fell by about $11 to the $1,706 area.
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By Jon Nadler |
January 26, 2012
Momentum players pulled the “buy” trigger on precious and base metals, along with crude oil and equities, yesterday afternoon, after they concluded that the Fed’s offer to not hike interest rates until late 2014 was tantamount to a fresh QE program.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
January 23, 2012
Gold has risen in all currencies today and bullion up nearly 1 % to $1,675/oz. Gold rose 1.7% last week and has risen more than 6% so far this year. The yellow metal jumped to its highest level in more than a month.
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By Gene Arensberg |
January 16, 2012
Signs of life emerge in the smaller, less liquid and more speculative junior miners and explorers, but in a tepid, tentative, post-tax-loss-selling relief bounce sort of way - so far. Similar to the bounce in early 2009 in many ways.
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By Jon Nadler |
January 3, 2012
Signs that at least parts of the global economy continue to show a degree of immunity to the unfolding European crisis lifted trading spirits in various asset markets. Risk appetite made reappearances in gold, crude oil, copper and assorted equities.
