Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Second only to Australia in the export of wheat, the Ukraine is a strategic country in the formulation of the price of grain. The Russian takeover of Crimea and threat to expand its military operation...

Wheat CME immediate support is 633/632, but below here meets good support at 625/624 and a good chance of a bounce from here today. However longs need stops below 621 for 617/616 then a buying...

Corn May made it as far as 488 but overbought now and yesterday's candle formation indicates we will see profit taking in to the end of the week. The 200 day moving average at 479 will give us some...

Soybeans May held immediate resistance at 1425/26 but above here is more positive today and targets this week's high at 1437/38 then February highs at 1445.Failure to beat 1426 sees a test of good...

The weekly US inventory report from the Energy Information Administration is due today at 15:30 GMT. In it, traders will be looking out for signs of whether refinery demand has begun to ease as the...

Commodities received a strong boost on Monday on increased worries that the Ukraine crisis could trigger an armed conflict in the Black Sea region. Commodities went the opposite way of falling stocks...

Disaster, by over-optimization, is another important way to frame the much-heralded “just in time” inventory practices which are used broadly by industry and grafted to monetary assets...

Awful weather conditions in Brazil are the “catalyst” for a super squeeze on hedge funds, which have been shorting Coffee since late 2011. Market participants continue to be extremely...

Japan is ready to be green, with big plans to “mobilize ‘all necessary policies’ to expand the use of clean energy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said today,” reports...

As we explained yesterday, Putin’s remarks over Ukraine saw the gold price drop back slightly from its 17-week high, yesterday.Gold is still holding its ground above $1,335 and will no doubt...

NY closed the week with Mar/14 leaving the screen at 16.47 cents per pound, lower 25 points (or 5.50 dollars per ton) for the week, different from the remaining traded months, which were higher...

Coffee has been one of the best assets to own in 2014, up over 50% in two months. The question, though, is the commodity cooling off? Coffee could be forming a bearish wick this week near the 50%...

Brent crude oil slid below $110 as worries about escalating tension in Ukraine were assuaged by a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. The commodity traded at $109.17 at...

Gold retreated to support at the 200 hour MA yesterday, as Russia held back from further military action in Ukraine, however the metal remains in an uptrend, with a series of higher highs and higher...