Commodities Analysis & Opinion

With all the manufactured excitement over U.S.-China progress and oil bulls’ fantasy over where crude prices could go, it’s a little easy to lose sight sometimes of the commodities that...

The trade deal headlines might have become tiring to the traders, but not to their machines. Headline-reading algorithmic trading models will remain alert to words like “close,”...

In movie analogy, the two would be competing for the Razzie awards. And it’s hard to pick a winner between them, with performances that seem equally embarrassing.We’re talking about Wall...

One of the top questions plaguing oil forecasters right now is how much of the commodity the U.S. will produce in 2020. Since the fracking revolution began, U.S. production has climbed every year,...

A couple of weeks back, we explored in this column the wild bronco ride that natural gas can be. After five out of six weeks in the red, gas futures on New York’s Henry Hub suddenly turned...

By “soon,” I mean that the move can commence at any time, but more likely before many weeks or months have gone by. I know that the price of silver has been declining on a daily basis...

They rose together on the bullish fervor that only the rare confluence of events like the trade war and Fed easing can bring. Now silver, often called the poor man’s gold, looks set to share the...

For 16 months, the trade war theater has played to packed audiences from Washington to New York and Beijing to London. Adding subplots almost daily, the drama seems to have an infinite capacity for...

The biggest bull market of the year in natural gas is shaping up, with huge stakes riding on an intense freeze forecast in the eastern two-thirds of the United States — the country’s...

The OPEC and OPEC+ meetings are a month away, but talk in anticipation of the events is already influencing oil prices. Both Brent and WTI dropped almost 1.5% midday Nov. 6 on news that OPEC...

For a third straight day, oil prices rose Tuesday. And for a third day in a row, some investors and traders were left wondering just what had changed so dramatically in the supply-demand of crude and...

This CNBC story published on Monday had a great point: Wall Street has been spooked this year by a trade war, a potential recession and multiple geopolitical concerns, including Brexit. Yet, the stock...

The most talked about story in the oil market this week might not do much for the price of oil itself. Saudi Aramco’s stock sale, coming after a four-year wait, has hogged energy headlines since...

Overall, gold has a decent chance of breaking to new highs over the coming months. Yet, whether is opts for direct gains or morphs into a prolonged, complex correction could become clear over the next...