Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Before the OPEC deal was finalized at the weekend, I wrote that oil will probably be going to hell in a handbasket if the cartel and the rest of the world don’t agree on cuts. Five days later,...

The oil market is in shambles. Everyone says it. Everyone knows it. Yet, the $20.00 line has been holding since March 18, almost a full month.Has oil carved out a floor? We don’t know, for a...

Sell the front, buy the back. The classic trade developing in natural gas — or, for that matter, in oil or any commodity with a hopeless immediate outlook now — is creating a...

On Sunday, OPEC+ came through with a big agreement to cut 9.7 million bpd of oil, while other producers are supposed to provide further cuts. The agreement was hailed as “historic,” due to...

It’s the question reverberating across the gold universe: With the yellow metal well past $1,700 an ounce, is $1,900 and a new record high happening this year?Before we get to even that,...

You’d expect Donald Trump to say it, of course. The U.S. president wants to be seen as the savior of everything American, from jobs to oil. But to hear the Saudi Energy Minister state that he...

A potential end to 17 weeks of storage draws in U.S. natural gas looms as power burns suddenly jump and temperatures beckon lower. The conflicting trends have revived volatility in a commodity often...

It’s hard for me to look away from oil, with crude at one of its most defining moments ever between landmark production cuts or a deeper price crash. Yet there are 30 other commodities in...

Earlier today, gold futures hit a seven-year peak of $1734.35. They've retreated for now, but we believe the contract's bullish run is by no means over. It may yet take on the August 2011 all-time...

Like birds of prey, the state oil giants of Saudi Arabia and Russia can smell the decay setting into the U.S. shale industry and the market share that will come free when its weakest die from the...

Investing.com’s Commodities Week Ahead typically looks at the prospects for oil and gold prices in the upcoming trading week. In this two-part series, however, which began on Sunday, we examined...

This was supposed to be the least important U.S. non-farm payroll release for most traders because job losses were expected to be somewhat limited because the coronavirus impact was supposed to be...

To me, the most believable thing about the Saudis, Russians and the rest of OPEC meeting again is that they’ll be meeting again.Everything else is a big “if,” including production...

As expected, the news from U.S. oil producers is concerning. The former secretary of energy and former governor of Texas Rick Perry said on Fox News that "we are on the verge of a massive collapse of...