Commodities Analysis & Opinion

The elephant in the commodities room this week will be the two-month old rally in crude oil, and whether it’ll come back from last week’s beating.Down more than 4 percent in five...

It’s safe to say it’s been a volatile week for markets and a bad one for stocks. But, with the rout showing early signs of abating, we’d like to finish the week focusing on a market...

The simple answer to the question in the headline is: No one knows.There is probably as big a constituency that thinks $3 per million British thermal units is the minimum price for natural gas from...

Since August, the price of the international oil benchmark, Brent, has risen about 25%. Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that in the past month there has been a doubling in the...

It’s one of the most toxic metals known to man. And investors who took positive bets on lead this year are now feeling its poisonous effects on their portfolios.Down 26 percent this year on...

“When pigs fly” is one of those perfect idioms to describe the impossible. It’s probably what some livestock traders would have thought had they heard this past summer that US hog...

Oil bulls will be fighting to keep the rally in crude alive this week as prices retreat from 2014 highs and risk falling further on reports of possible US waivers on sanctions against Iranian exports....

Like all good things that must come to an end, the curtains may finally be closing on the pre-winter party for natural gas bulls.But how quickly will they clear the room?Natural gas production was at...

Right now, the two most important factors affecting oil markets are fear and speculation based on that fear. The fear is that at some point over the next several months there will not be enough oil...

Dr. Felipe Larrain, Chile's finance minister, made the call three months ago, but the market ignored him then and prices sank. This week, as oil's rally became supercharged and gold showed surprising...

Gold has spent the best part of the year under heavy selling pressure, but several clues point towards its potential to break this trend. We can see on the weekly chart that bears have had a field day...

Just a week ago, it looked like a commodity nobody wanted, with fund managers bailing out and analysts all but prophesying its doom on the prospect of five more rate hikes in two years. Now, gold is...

An increasingly bullish structure and break to a 4-year high puts $80 within easy reach. Yet, the cluster of resistance around this level and the fact that large speculators appear less eager to wade...

For commodity traders, Donald Trump’s triumph in reworking NAFTA but refusing to do a trade deal with China promptly or start nuclear talks with Iran means there’s profit to be made in...