Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Is there hope for large drawdowns in U.S. crude at this point of the driving season?Since 2019 began, oil markets have experienced some of the most incredible supply outages and geopolitical tensions,...

Gold is at a crossroads, as both speculators, who’ve been chasing it higher, and consumers, who need to buy cheap, hit the pause button.U.S. rating and research agency Fitch Solutions sees only...

Oil prices are climbing for the second day after a Yemeni separatist attack on Saudi oil fields on Saturday added further tension to an already precarious Mideast environment. At the same time, the...

Will the Fed lend a helping hand to commodity markets this week? Or will it kick oil and gold prices down the alley?The Federal Reserve holds its annual gathering in Jackson Hole from Thursday through...

They’ve seen many years of false starts, but gold bugs probably can’t be surer than now of the rally in the shiny metal.Sought in both good times—think jewelry and other ornamental...

When oil prices were heading to $80 per barrel last summer, it took a few phone calls and an announcement from OPEC and Russia to stabilize the market. The current reality presents an entirely...

Crude traders, fasten your seat belts: This market might be in for one heck of a ride.Oil prices are experiencing some of their greatest volatility ever as the U.S.-China trade war yanks crude around...

The party seems over for now for U.S. corn bulls, though soybean longs remain hopeful after a friendly government crop report, as farmers across the country wallow in misery from China’s...

Saudi Arabia is apparently determined not to let oil prices crash again like last year.But with more than half of the peak summer driving period in the U.S. over, does the Kingdom and the enlarged...

Oil surged Thursday after reports Saudi Arabian officials were holding discussions with other oil producers about possible market intervention to stabilize falling prices. Exporters have already been...

Oil prices have been dropping again, driven down by fear that the U.S.-China trade conflict won’t be resolved and will plunge both countries into oil-demand-killing recessions. At the same time,...

U.S. natural gas could be on the cusp of breaking below the $2 pricing it has defended since 2016, as production of the fuel continues to overwhelm despite a pipeline outage. For the second week in a...

Gold bulls are on a high ride they haven’t been in a while, and the experience could only get more dizzying.A near decade-long expansion of the U.S. economy had previously trapped gold prices in...

So, is Donald Trump winning the trade war with China, at least from a commodities perspective?It might sound like a premature—even odd—question, considering that China just devalued its...