Commodities Analysis & Opinion

With just days left in the decade, we’re going to look back on commodities. Talk about a lost decade: 2010 through 2019 was, like, lost in the jungle lost, with just a quarter of the 23 markets...

Palladium has already made history at $2,000 and gold is back to within striking distance of $1,500, prompting investors to wonder about the other precious metal that matters to most: Will silver see...

The Fed pause couldn’t do it. Nor the safe likelihood of Brexit 2.0. And now, the partial U.S.-China deal—gold bears’ last big bet for the year—has been tossed to the wayside...

A week ago, I asked if oil could finish the year at $70, and by that, I meant for a barrel of Brent, the global crude benchmark. Looking at Brent at the time of writing — in Monday’s...

Mexican drill results attracted a few speculators to shares of a silver junior Thursday. Here’s some small stocks making big moves yesterday:Kootenay Silver Inc (TSXV:KTN) shares gained 5% to...

In an Oscar-worthy showing, palladium qualified on Thursday as the second costliest metal ever, beating gold after an eight-year struggle. Two nominations now await the auto-catalyst metal: Best...

The midweek announcement by Chevron Corp (NYSE:CVX) sliced like a scythe across the heart of the natural gas industry, underscoring the idiom: “It is what it is.” With shale fields...

Oil prices continue to drop from 12-week highs after the EIA weekly inventory report showed a small surprise build of 822,000 barrels, a recently growing trend with U.S. stockpiles. The overall report...

The dramatic volatility we've been seeing in the price of oil provides a powerful reminder that trading this commodity is also subject to the fundamental uncertainty currently plaguing the broader...

At a glance, it looks doomed, lying at the bottom of the heap with a loss of more than 20%—officially the worst performing commodity of 2019. But scratch a little beneath the skin of its charts...

Saudi Oil Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman made two audacious bets last week. His first was that OPEC’s biggest “serial offenders”—Iraq and Nigeria—will stop breaching their...

Could oil finish the year above $70? And if it does, will it stay above that level in 2020? Lots of numbers will be flying about in the coming days on how high Brent crude and its peer WTI could go...

Dunkin runs on it; it’s been touted as the elixir of life; and now coffee may just be the caffeine booster your flagging portfolio needs before 2019 comes to an end. A crunch in Brazilian output...

It’ll come at some point; exactly when, no one’s sure. So we keep betting on what everyone says, getting more frustrated by the day as it remains elusive. This U.S.-China trade deal...