Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Iran signalled on Wednesday it could compromise on a small increase in OPEC oil output when the group meets this week, as Saudi Arabia scrambled to convince fellow members of the need for a larger...

OPEC, the cartel of petroleum exporting nations, will be meeting this week in Vienna. As recently as 2016 and 2017, the cartel was declared “dead” by some experts, but today it seems...

There were a few interesting pieces of news in the mining space this week, one of which was certainly CITIC Metals, a Chinese state-owned enterprise that is the largest conglomerate in the country and...

The debate regarding which way oil is headed next rages on. The commodity's fundamentals right now are murky.Oil could fall if OPEC's production cap is reversed later this week in Vienna and...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran exchanged sharp words over oil prices on Wednesday, with Trump blaming OPEC for high oil prices and Tehran accusing him of stoking volatility after he withdrew...

Skepticism was probably the most common response to President Trump’s decision last month to reinstate U.S. sanctions on the Iranian oil industry. While Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that...

Price action is creeping up the inside of a broken trendline and remains below a cluster of resistance. If bearish momentum is to return soon, a bearish flag could unfold to target the April lows.

Oil has given up a 0.4 percent boost, even after two positive developments—one for the commodity specifically, the other for risk in general—failed to provide fundamental support for...

After oil prices took a nosedive last week on news that OPEC and Russia were moving towards increasing production by as much as 1 million barrels per day, the big oil producers now appear to be...

Though it's currently being sold off, the price of oil is almost certain to rebound, likely north of $72 and probably even higher.The fundamental obstacle until yesterday was the concern that OPEC and...

Oil prices fell last week and have continued to fall this week after Saudi Arabia and Russia announced that OPEC and its non-OPEC partners (together termed OPEC+ hereon out) would consider increasing...

Gold has steadied in the Friday session, after posting strong gains on Thursday. Currently, the spot price for one ounce of gold is $1306.01, up 0.09% on the day. On the release front, it’s a...

EMX Royalty Corp (NYSE:EMX) made an interesting, unexpected and somewhat telling move last week, announcing a US$5-million senior secured one-year credit facility with Sprott Resource Lending (C$6.25...

Around this past new year, oil prices were climbing higher and many analysts predicted that a rush of new production from U.S. shale oil fields would, over time, put a damper on prices Nearly six...