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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Commodities Fall Again, Gold Under pressure (USO, UNG, GLD, SLV, CHK AONE, CNQ)

Commodities continued to slide on Tuesday weigh by continuous struggling in formation of new of a coalition Greek government.Earlier stock opened higher following U.S. economic reports had retail sales up 0.1% in April, while consumer prices held flat.Also, The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo housing market index rose to 29 from 24 in April. The April index was initially reported to be 25. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a reading of 27.The component gauging current sales conditions rose 5 points to 30 and the component gauging traffic of prospective buyers rose 5 points to 23, which was the highest level since April 2007. Gold for June delivery fell -0.37%   to $1,556 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. July silver fell 1% $28.09 an ounce. Copper for July delivery lost -1.22% to $3.51 a pound. July platinum was flat at $1,442 an ounce, while the June contract for sister metal palladium added 0.36% to $597 an ounce. In the energy pack, Crude for June delivery fell 0.30% to $94.49 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, though it traded as low as $93.91 earlier. June heating oil was little changed at $2.93 a gallon and gasoline for June delivery was fractionally lower at $2.95 a gallon.The ICE dollar index which measures the U.S. unit against a basket of six other currencies, lately traded at 81.03, up from 80.612 late Monday. United States Oil Fund LP (ETF)(NYSEARCA:USO) was up 0 0.21 (0.59%) at $35.82, SPDR Gold Trust (ETF)(NYSEARCA:GLD) fell 0.05 (-0.03%) to $151.28, iShares Silver Trust (ETF)(NYSEARCA:SLV) slumped 0.08 (-0.29%) to $27.34 and United States Natural Gas Fund, LP(NYSEARCA:UNG) added 0.31 (1.82%) to $17.64. Canadian Natural Resource Ltd (USA)(NYSE:CNQ) fell 1% after the country's biggest energy company was charged with violating national environmental laws by releasing a potentially dangerous amount of hydrogen sulphide gas into the Northern Alberta air two years ago. A123 Systems, Inc.(NASDAQ:AONE) soared 12% despite the company numbers badly missed estimates and the company reported cash burn of $73M, it also said it has fixed the battery defect that led to a massive recall, and that a federal grant with $120M in remaining proceeds has been extended by 2 years. A123 slashed its 2012 guidance last Friday. Chesapeake Energy Corporation(NYSE:CHK) plunged 5.50% on reports of increased the size of the $3B bridge loan it’s seeking to refinance debt to $4B; the debt will now be sold at $0.97 on the dollar, up from $0.96, increasing proceeds for the company and reducing the yield to investors. Earlier today, S&P cut CHK's credit rating to BB- from BB

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