Commodities

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared at Marketurningpoints.com   Current position of the market SPX: Very Long-term trend – The very-long-term cycles are down and, if they make their lows when expected (after this bull market is over) there will be another steep and prolonged...

By: Roger Conrad, Investing Daily North American natural gas currently sells for half its five-year average price on the near-term New York Mercantile Exchange futures contract. And that’s after a rally the past two weeks from a low point of just USD1.90 per million British thermal units...

On March 11, 1893 the American Bankers Association, led by JP Morgan, produced a leaflet entitled "The Panic Circular" which was distributed to each national bank president: "You will at once retire one-third of your circulation and call in one-half of your loans. After this you are to advocate...

By Leo Isaak, Minyanville Many people are getting “bulled up” on natural gas based primarily on its seemingly low price. I have some tough news for bulls: Natural gas is likely headed lower (maybe much lower) as there are no real catalysts to drive the price higher and incentives for E&P (...

As Iran gets ready to celebrate its greatest holiday of the year, New Year's Eve, on March 20th, it not only celebrates the beginning of a new year but also the end of the dollar as an acceptable currency for payment of its oil. Although the holiday, known as Nowruz, is typically commemorated by...

Beacon Rock Research provided analysis and color on Redstar Gold ("RGC") today after the company reported additional high-grade gold results from its Ontario Red Lake Gold Camp on the Newman Todd property. In the report, Beacon Rock Research notes the following: "Redstar continues to report...

By Jordan Roy-Byrne Gold is in a bull market and so are the gold stocks despite their struggle as a group to outperform Gold. This is nothing new though. We've written about this in the past and Steve Saville has before us. Nevertheless, the miners are in a secular bull market and investors need...

Today's Trading rule of the Day is: "Do not short a parabolic market and do not catch a falling knife." The bloodbath on Netlflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) continued as their Q3 earnings were not high enough to shore up confidence in the stock. One of the rules we follow is to stay away from "falling knife...

  To 250 million people in 51 countries in the world, the word for money is the same word as the word for silver. Silver literally means money.   According to Noble Laureate Milton Friedman, the majority of monetary metal throughout history has been silver, not gold. Gold is the money of...

By Justin Rohrlich Repsol SA, a Spanish energy concern, will be drilling for Cuban oil, using a Chinese rig, in the Gulf of Mexico, 60 miles off the coast of the United States. According to the Wall Street Journal, “the U.S. will inspect” the rig (whatever that means) before it is moved into the...