Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Briefly: In our opinion, full (150% of the regular full position) speculative short positions in gold, silver and mining stocks are justified from the risk/reward perspective at the moment of...

OPEC sees no reason for investors to expect oil to hit peak demand before 2040, the organization’s secretary general said Monday.Speaking at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition...

Key Points: OPEC quietly admits that its Shale Oil Strategy has failed. ULCC static off Oman since 2015 offloads oil. Imagery suggests Saudi Arabia could be fudging their inventory storage...

Oil prices continue to climb this week as OPEC seeks further consensus on an extension of the production cut deal. Both the Brent and WTI benchmarks reached two-year highs in futures trading even...

Further to my prediction at the end of July that WTI Crude Oil may reach $65.00 if it could reach and hold above the 55.00 level, this update will confirm that such a scenario is still a possibility,...

Two giant multinational American oil companies (IOCs) reported significant growth in third quarter profits last week, suggesting hard times for oil companies may be coming to an end. These profits,...

Oil prices jumped in after-hours trading on Sunday night and Monday morning when Iraqi militia forces invaded the Kurdish-held, oil-rich city of Kirkuk. The expectation was that the flow of oil out of...

OPEC comments unleash pent-up demand in oil overnight with WTI the main beneficiary.Crude oil prices shot higher overnight, with WTI gaining a spectacular 2.80% and Brent a more modest, but still...

Last week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that U.S. oil production in the month of July totaled 9.238 million bpd. This figure is actually 178,000 bpd lower than the weekly...

Saudi Arabia’s plans to float state oil titan Aramco are prompting the country to think the unthinkable.Late last year, Saudi Arabia tried to get fellow oil producers around the world to agree...

During the first 25 days of September, Brent crude prices rose 12.7% to $59.02 per barrel. After almost three years of depressed prices and a summer in which Brent bottomed as low at $44.82 per...

Back in June, 2017, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced that on September 25, 2017, the government would hold a referendum on Kurdish independence. Currently, the KRG has autonomy in the...

Two months before the next regular OPEC and Non-OPEC meeting in Vienna on November 30, 2017, the parities are already maneuvering to make their cases for what should happen. Already, OPEC and Non-OPEC...

It has been over a week since Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast, but the U.S. energy industry is still reeling from its impact.Oil ProductionAccording to the Bureau of Safety and...