Commodities Analysis & Opinion

The price of oil just crashed to below $25.00 as we write this. That's right below the intraday low and $26.21 closing price of February 2016. It's also in line with the commodity's 17-year low hit in...

We live in the strangest of times where a 24 hour period can feel like 24 days. Just yesterday, I wrote that I wasn’t sure if Donald Trump’s acknowledgement of a potential recession...

Under ordinary circumstances, one emergency rate cut should have been enough to do it for Wall Street. But these are extraordinary times, so even two unscheduled Fed cuts haven’t worked their...

The way stocks have been selling off lately, one may have thought that a safe place to park your cash was in precious metals, such as gold and silver.  These have always been considered great...

Forget oil. The oft-used refrain that “it’ll probably get worse before it gets better” has suddenly taken on a very frightening meaning for markets and investors of most stripes and...

Fitch is making a bold bet on China and copper. Wall Street and the red metal’s charts tell a different story for now.As stocks and markets the world over experienced for a second time this week...

OPEC is going to do what it’s going to do. And beyond cutting production, there’s nothing the cartel can do to push oil prices higher. Yet, the epic demand destruction to crude caused by...

Typically, news of central banks synchronizing rate cuts should be great news for gold longs. But in the coronavirus era, risk trades might go up too, squirreling away money that might otherwise be...

With Russia finally ending its cat-and-mouse game with OPEC, the world alliance of oil producers hopes to shock the market into a rebound next week by announcing a cut of more than one million barrels...

2020 hasn’t been kind to oil bulls. After the Jan. 6, $63.27 close, it’s been down hill all the way. But that’s only part of the picture. Oil has been ranging since April 23, after...

News that the coronavirus has spread further rattled equity and oil markets since Monday. The dramatic drops to start the week were spurred largely by reports of outbreaks in Iran and Italy, along...

In Aesop's fable, the satyr, or protagonist, declares he cannot trust a man who blows hot (to warm his hands) and cold (to cool his food) with the same breath. Natural gas bulls might find that lesson...

Short sellers in stocks weren’t the only ones celebrating when the “most-hated bull market in history” was coming apart on Tuesday. On the other side of the aisle, gold was also...

Russia could’ve said yes to OPEC's proposals, but self-preservation, interest in long-term gain and indignation over President Donald Trump’s sanctions got in the way. And now, until the...