Commodities & Metals

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ThinkstockCopper is one of the metals that really matters at the street level of the global economy. The price of gold is much more exciting about the price of copper, but copper is used in just...
ThinkstockThe news flow over the weekend and on Monday helped to drive the price of gold higher after one monster sell-off this year. Reports of spot gold shortages and premiums being paid after the...
ThinkstockIt was just at the end of last week that we gave a pre-earnings update for Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) in our DJIA earnings season scorecard, warning that the market was expecting...
ThinkstockAs we said the whole way down, it may be a painful lesson or a fool’s game to try to predict or to try to catch the bottom on the price of gold. The World Gold Council does have a vested...
ThinkstockShares of Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) rose as much as 3.2% this morning after the company posted first-quarter earnings that were considerably better than expected. Peabody’s...
ThinkstockThe gold bugs are getting crushed ever harder as the price of gold is now well into a bear market. Gold is losing its biggest bulls on top of the constant negative reports that keep coming...
ThinkstockOK, so everyone knows that the price of gold is tanking. After peaking at almost $1,800 and falling under $1,400, now the calls are growing louder and louder to sell gold. Bill Gross of...
ThinkstockIt is no secret that the gold bugs got squashed, but Wall St. analysts are starting to have something different to say. The price of gold broke from a peak of close to $1,800, and now the...
ThinkstockSwiss-based commodities trading house and mining company Glencore International announced last night that it has received approval from China’s Ministry of Commerce for its merger with...
ThinkstockThe SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEMKT: GLD) has cratered along with the gold market. We will see if the bounce holds from Tuesday morning, but it has been hard to not see that the gain of 1.3% was...
ThinkstockOver the past 10 years the world’s largest commodities trading houses have racked up nearly $250 billion in profit. That is more than the net profit of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:...
ThinkstockToday’s 9.3% drop in the price of gold was the largest one-day drop in 30 years. The sell-off began in Asia last night, continued through the day in Europe, and wound up slamming U.S....
ThinkstockBeware of the calls to try to catch falling knives. Stepping in front of the train that is selling in gold and silver may come with severe pain for investors trying to fight the trend....
ThinkstockThe latest casualty of the drop in gold prices is gold-mining stocks. CNBC reports: As gold prices extended their decline on Monday, investors dumped shares of gold miners on worries over...
ThinkstockThe gold bugs are getting squashed and flushed down the drain as gold continues its slide. After breaking the $1500 mark on Friday there are some key calls to consider as gold could get...