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The Latest Breaking News from Comex

After reaching a new high in late October, gold futures prices fell by just over $260 per ounce. Since then, gold has been sitting around the midpoint of the trading range as the market digests the most recent new peak and absorbs the price action in currency and debt markets.

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Is $4 a Bottom for Copper?

Copper futures rose to a record high of nearly $5.20 per pound in May 2024. After correcting below the $4 per pound level in August and September, copper recovered only to return to the $4 level in November. The $3.90 to $4.00 level has become critical support for the red…

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Is Gold’s Correction Another Buying Opportunity?

Gold prices corrected after reaching another new record high in October 2024, at over $2,800 per ounce. In post-election trading, gold prices are around $200 lower than the October high. While the correction may continue, the price action since the turn of this century tells us that buying gold on…

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Commodity Market Roundup: October’s Top Performers and Underperformers

Commodity prices turned mixed results in October even though bearish price action in the bond market and the pushed interest rates higher and bullish action in the dollar index tends to weigh on raw material prices.

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Precious Metals Q3- What are the Prospects for Q4 and Beyond?

While platinum declined, gold, silver, palladium, and rhodium prices increased in the third quarter. Gold and silver prices moved significantly higher over the first nine months of 2024, while platinum and palladium declined. Rhodium bucked the trend in the PGMs, moving higher from the end of 2023 through the end…

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Barchart- Commodity Market Roundup: September’s Top Performers and Underperformers

Energy prices (sans natural gas) fell, while most other commodity prices rose in September as interest rates and the U.S. dollar declined.

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Is Silver Pausing Before an Explosive Move?

Silver traded at its highest price since late 2012 in May 2024 when the precious metal reached $32.50 per ounce. Silver has corrected below the $30 level, but it could be a matter of time before the metal heads for higher highs.

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Is the Selling in Copper a Buying Opportunity?

Copper prices reached a new record high in May 2024, eclipsing the March 2022 high before correcting lower. Meanwhile, copper futures have dropped more than $1 per pound since the May high as the leading base metal is searching for a bottom.

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Will Gold Keep Making Higher Record Highs?

Gold rose to a new record high in Q2 2024 and in early Q3. The precious metal looks set to make even higher highs during the second half of this year. Gold is the world’s oldest currency, and as inflation erodes fiat foreign exchange instruments and the international financial system…

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Where are Base Metals Heading in Q3 and Beyond?

The base metals sector of the commodities market moved higher in Q2 2024 and was higher than the 2023 closing level at the end of June. LME zinc led on the upside, while tin posted double-digit percentage gains. Copper moved to a new all-time high during Q2, while all the…

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Where are Precious Metals Heading in Q3 and Beyond?

The precious metals sector of the commodities market moved higher in Q2 2024 and was higher than the 2023 closing level at the end of June. Silver led on the upside, while platinum and gold posted impressive gains. Gold moved to a new all-time high during Q2, while silver broke…

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Silver: Is $30 the New Pivot Point?

Market prices often gravitate around significant levels. Since technical resistance in silver had been around the $30 per ounce level before the recent rally, that price could become a considerable pivot point as the technical resistance has become more of a support level in June 2024.

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Copper: Is the Correction the End of the Rally?

Nearby copper futures rose to nearly $5.20 per pound on May 20, a new record high. The red nonferrous metal ran out of upside steam, declining below the $4.80 level, leaving many market participants wondering if the spike higher was the end of the nearly two-decade-long bull market.

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Can Platinum and Palladium Recover?

Gold reached a new high in April 2024, and silver rose to nearly $30 per ounce, the highest price since early 2021. Meanwhile, platinum and palladium prices remain under pressure, lagging their precious cousins in 2024.

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Is Copper Heading for a New Record High?

Copper prices were up over 2% in 2023. In Q1, COMEX copper futures gained 2.99% while the LME forwards moved 3.60% higher. Copper has been off to the races on the upside in early Q2, and it may not be long before the red metal challenges the March 2022 record…

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Is Silver Going to Break Out on the Upside?

Silver approached a test of the $30 per ounce level, the highest price since February 2021. If silver can eventually power through $30, it could be on a path to challenge the 2011 and 1980 highs.

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Where are Base Metals Prices Heading in Q2?

The commodity asset class’s base metals sector posted a marginal 0.27% gain in Q1 2023, with tin and copper leading the way on the upside. Three of the six base metals posted gains, while four moved lower, with zinc posting the most significant percentage decline.

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Where are Precious Metals Prices Heading in Q2?

Gold and silver prices rallied in Q1 2024, while platinum and palladium declined. Prices are increasing as the precious metals sector heads into the second quarter, with silver reaching a new 2024 peak and gold making new all-time highs.

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What is the Silver-Gold Ratio Saying About the Metal Prices?

Gold prices reached another new all-time high on April 1, 2024, at nearly $2,265 per ounce, but silver remains at half the record 1980 peak. The silver-gold ratio is sitting at over the 89:1 level, above the long-term average of the metric that measures the relative value of silver as…

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Is Silver a Sleeping Giant?

Silver prices have gone nowhere fast in 2024. After a marginal 2023 gain, the metal’s price sits in a narrow range. Like a rubber band pulled in opposite directions, the quiet market action could lead to a violent move.

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Gold: Is $2,000 a Bottom?

Gold reached a new record high in 2023 and was the only precious metal with a significant gain last year. While the $2,000 level was a technical resistance level over the past years, it has become technical support in 2024.

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Can Palladium Recover?

After reaching a record high in March 2022, palladium prices plunged. Palladium is an industrial and precious metal that is the least liquid precious metal traded on the CME’s NYMEX or COMEX division. Palladium prices have declined to a level that could offer significant value over the coming months and…

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Gold: Will 2024 Be Another Golden Year?

Gold is entering its twenty-fifth year of bullish price action. The prospects for the yellow metal remain optimistic for 2024 as gold reached another record high in 2023, leading the precious metals sector higher.

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Which Commodities are Undervalued Going into 2024?

As we move into 2024, more than a handful of commodities posted significant losses in 2023. The worst performers during one period tend to be the best during subsequent periods in the volatile raw materials asset class.

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What is in Store for Copper Prices in 2024?

Copper prices have traded on either side of $4 in 2023. Over the past year, copper has poked its head over the $4 level in seven months and was below it for five months. At just below the $3.90 per pound level on December 19, nearby copper futures could be…

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