Commodities Analysis & Opinion

It was supposed to be the year of commodity bulls, with the World Bank to Goldman Sachs predicting runaway demand in nearly everything from oil to metals and grains. Instead, it’s turning out to...

Just ahead of his summit with China’s leader Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump says he’s against suspending the upcoming round of higher tariffs against Beijing. The remark could...

Oil bounced this morning, after slumping 6.66% on Friday, the worst day for the commodity in three years.However, prior to Friday's plunge, oil was already in a bear market, its price having been in...

The writing has been on the wall of oil trading exchanges for a few weeks and is working its way onto price screens now: US crude testing $50 per barrel.Regardless of what the truth is, in oil...

The big event in the last month was the U.S. midterm elections. While I’m not one to obsess over politics, this event matters to the metals markets.To explain why, let me step back a bit. At the...

After we highlighted $1200 as a pivotal level for gold, the shiny yellow metal has bounced above this key level to show bulls still appear intent on carving out a bottom on gold. As it turns out, the...

Oil prices fell on Thursday after U.S. crude inventories swelled to their highest level since December adding to concerns about a global glut, but OPEC talk of an output reduction limited...

No doubt the most pressing topic of conversation among oil ministers at OPEC's meeting on December 6 in Vienna, Austria, will be the sudden drop in oil prices during October and November. After...

There's a double whammy weighing on oil markets right now—increased supply alongside reduced demand. Added pressure on one side of the scales would naturally have caused a price move, but when...

It doesn’t matter whether Saudi Arabia announces a one-million-barrel cut when OPEC meets in December—or, for that matter, a two-million curb. What matters is whether the market will have...

I’ve been learning about vanadium lately. It’s an interesting sector: the price is up tenfold in two years because supplies are tight while demand is ramping up based on more stringent...

Oil bears are expected to continue anxiously watching OPEC developments in this Thanksgiving-shortened week as the threat of production cuts hangs ominously over the market amid runaway builds in US...

There's no doubt volatility is back in US natural gas futures, after they posted an 18 percent rally one day and 17 percent plunge the next. What few have a clue on though, is where prices are going...

On 29 September, Bloomberg ran a piece entitled “What Oil at $100 a Barrel Would Mean for the Global Economy.” On 1 October, CNBC ran a story they titled “OPEC ‘powerless to...