Commodities Analysis & Opinion

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...

It isn’t called the “Wild West of Commodities” for nothing. From a weekly decline of just about 1%, U.S. natural gas is suddenly staring at a humongous gain of 17% for...

Oil and gas companies are posting their third quarter earnings this week and next. So far, the results are varied despite dismal market sentiment on demand growth and generally low oil prices. BP...

The price of nickel has run up to a five-year high of late, defying softness in the rest of the base metal complex. The reasons are both simple and complicated. The price of nickel doubled...

Is U.S. crude oil production really at record highs? Or is the EIA’s estimate out-of-whack with what’s happening on the ground, especially with the collapse in oil drilling rigs that...

Sitting pretty—at least for now—on their $1,500 perch, gold punters seem convinced about what the Federal Reserve will do on Wednesday. Expectations for a third straight U.S. rate cut are...

A dovish European Central Bank propelled gold to a 2-week high and closed on a key resistance level, suggesting bulls are preparing to break gold from its corrective channel. Gold has...

It was just what grains markets seemed to have waited for months: China, China, and more China. And when people familiar with China's grains demand indicated on Wednesday—albeit through...

The chart below measures the performance of spot gold versus the S&P 500 Index during 11 crisis periods since 1985. Gold returned an average +6.4% compared with -21.7% for the S&P 500 for...