Commodities Analysis & Opinion

It’s odd but both the bulls and bears in natural gas might detest the market right now. However, after four weeks in the red, gas futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange’s Henry Hub...

Corn and wheat are up about 10% each since the end of August, while soybeans have moved higher by 8%, giving commodity bulls wary of being caught on the wrong side of oil and gold a chance for some...

Gold is back to flirting with $1,500, with futures crossing that territory and bowing out before Monday’s settlement in New York. Bullion, meanwhile, has parked itself within striking distance...

The United States said on Friday it has reached a tariffs “pause” with China. At this point, we need to hit the rewind button to go back to December 2018 to see what happened after...

Oil spiked higher on reports that an Iranian oil tanker was hit by two missiles off the Saudi coast, according to Iranian state television. The vessel is currently ablaze and leaking oil 60 miles off...

As this week began, we warned that the macro picture might completely hijack the oil and gold markets, leaving both at the vagaries of U.S.-China talks and rate cut speculation. Given that these have...

Ecuador recently announced it intends to leave OPEC at the start of 2020. As the South American country is the fourth smallest producer in OPEC—it produces about 540,000 barrels per day at the...

The weather across America is blowing dry to cold, stressing crops and harvests and creating sudden bull opportunities for investors. In the Northern Plains, a crop freeze is developing in corn. In...

The good news for oil bulls is that there’s a good chance for the market to rebound each time it approaches the $50 per barrel support. The bad news is there aren’t any events in the...

Away from the madness in crude oil and intrigue in gold, another commodity has been having a drama of its own over the past month. Raw sugar, which fell to a near one-year low just four weeks ago, has...

Crude oil prices appear to have recovered after the attack on Saudia Arabia oil installations caused a spike mid-September. Immediately following the strike just two and a half weeks ago, Brent crude...

The trend is your friend, we often hear. And the trend doesn’t advocate being bullish on natural gas now, especially in a market plummeting with the velocity of a space shuttle returning to...

These are such headline-driven days. Stock markets dropped when news broke of the U.S. Democrat’s move to start impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Then, they rebounded when...

Treasury spreads and yield curves have become the most common ways to tell a potential recession now. But not too long ago, there was another instrument that traders relied on for this: copper. Used...