Today’s look at the commodities markets examines a new report from the World Gold Council and reports on another downturn on agricultural products. The World Gold Council has published a new report…
We have recently begun filtering out value stocks in a sector by sector screen ahead of earnings season. This latest batch is a commodities value screen, and we identified three clear value…
Time for our daily look at the world of commodity prices and key developments. The US Energy Information Administration announced today that crude oil stocks in the US grew by 2 million…
Time for our daily look at the world of commodity prices and key developments. Corn futures continue their seemingly inexorable march toward $8/bushel as wet and windy weather in the US Midwest…
Time now for our daily look at commodity prices and news. Copper prices rose to their highest level in nearly three weeks as the estimated cost to rebuild quake-devastated areas of Japan…
Earnings are out for three large gold miners, and the reviews are mixed. Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE: ABX), Kinross Gold Corp. (NYSE: KGC), and AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) have all reported fourth-quarter…
2011 is not looking at all like 2010 when it comes to the initial trading for gold prices. This morning we see that Gold is trading lower yet again in London and…
Gold was the darling trade for commodity investors and those seeking safe harbors as central banks printed money and promised to dilute their currencies for the future. The first trading day of…
Since hitting a new high of more than $1,430 on December 7th, the price of gold has settled down again (sort of) to around $1,385. There appear to be several factors at…
Goldman Sachs periodically updates its outlook on sectors and the economy with a one to two-year horizon. Yesterday’s upgrade of economic output in 2011 is accompanied by some interesting aspects for commodities…
Gold is hitting record highs now that we are seeing above $1,400.00 per ounce on COMEX. The translation to all gold producers is that production is that much more profitable. Exploration companies…
Investors looking to making a killing on gold this past year would have done well to invest in silver. Gold prices have risen to more than $1,300/ounce, about a 20% jump in…
Newmont Mining Corp. (NYSE: NEM) is up this morning after beating earnings expectations. It seems that they might be implying that gold producers will not just have to beat earnings to continue…
Earlier this week we wanted to look for some sort of implied value in shares of gold stocks that had either underperformed the sector and those which were actually at substantial discounts…
Whether we are in a bubble or not is still an outstanding issue, but many of the gold miners and producers are seeing their stocks now trading above what is the consensus…
