Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Supply and demand issues are back to determining the direction of commodity markets, with geopolitics playing an additional vital role in oil, after Donald Trump’s clash with the Fed over rate...

Oil prices rose on Monday on worries over supply after tensions worsened between Iran and the United States, while some offshore workers began a 24-hour strike on three oil and gas platforms in the...

Gold has just triggered a dual sell signal, after the dollar edged higher for a second day, today, boosted perhaps by Fed Chair Jerome Powell's Congressional testimony yesterday. The global reserve...

Maybe Chinese oil demand projections are more complicated than most media are telling us.China was a key source of demand throughout the oil price downturn. The country’s reported economic data...

Gold is unlikely to reclaim its safe haven status from the dollar anytime soon as a relentlessly hawkish Federal Reserve and rallying US stocks turn up the throttle on the USD's strength, leaving no...

by Barani KrishnanEnergy traders and investors will be warily watching US crude this week to see how far below $70 per barrel oil might fall and whether it recovers, a phenomenon likely after...

Zinc prices plummeted 4.5 percent today, hitting their lowest level in almost 13 months, after the Trump administration threatened further tariffs on an additional $200B worth of Chinese goods. The...

Despite decisions by Russia and Saudi Arabia to quickly ramp up production, oil markets continue to be overwhelmed by news of worker strikes and production outages. That, of course, is bullish for the...

After a minor retracement, bears did get the last laugh as they pushed gold through another level of support to a fresh year-to-date low. Yet, after stalling above key support, it could be time for...

U.S. equity markets are closed for today's 4th of July holiday, and trade, including in the oil markets, may be slow on lower volume for the remainder of the week. Nevertheless, oil prices have been...

Oil prices are surging. But the reasons have less to do with OPEC's oil production increase, announced last Friday, and more to do with not as prominent catalysts. Though oil prices moved decisively...

As metals investors, it’s easy to get caught in the day-to-day. And daily news does matter, especially if you’re invested in the kind of high-risk exploration stocks that lots of us buy....

Brent crude oil fell on Monday as investors prepared for an extra 1 million barrels per day in output to hit the markets after OPEC and its partners agreed to raise production.Despite the increase,...

The production increase agreement which came out of last Friday's Vienna meeting of OPEC-non OPEC oil producing countries was largely expected, though the modesty of the increase, beginning next...