Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Industrial metals have seen some of the biggest losses over the past week as worries about China's ability to maintain its role as a driver for increased demand has been put into question. Trade data...

Dr. Copper are you feeling OK? You don't look so good. Copper could well be forming a multi-year descending triangle. If this pattern read is correct, should Copper break support, selling pressure...

Gold failed to break resistance at $1354 yesterday afternoon, however overnight gold has found some buying out of Asia that took the price back to the top of the uptrend channel at $1363.The pattern...

CLCrude prices edged lower on Tuesday, as soft Chinese trade data continued to spook investors with fears emerging-market economies are cooling while concerns that U.S. weekly inventory data may...

Wheat May held support at 637/636 but pushed a lot higher than expected spiking above 666 highs. We quickly pulled back and we stick with the view that the 6 week rally has ended at this stage. We...

Corn CME held support at 473/472 exactly as predicted and ran in to our resistance at 484. We topped almost exactly here as expected and now need to watch the 479/480 level. The outlook remains...

The gold price has climbed above $1,350 to its highest in over five months, and is holding its ground this morning, following reports that Ukraine has begun military drills as Russia strengthens...

West Texas Intermediate crude crashed to a fresh one month low, led by "risk off" sentiment during US session which drove S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average lower by 0.51% and 0.41%...

Precious-Gold rose for a second day on Wednesday, hovering around 19-week high, as escalating geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine and drop in equity markets spurred haven demand on the...

--Aluminum prices declined by 1.4% and 1.2% to $1750.50 and Rs. 105.50 at LME and MCX platform respectively. Yesterday we expected that aluminum prices might get support from the declining inventories...

The decline from the $22.20 highs appears to be corrective, so as long as we remain above $20.50-60 zone then bullish targets remain $22.20 and $23.00. Attempting to pick the bottom of a correction...

Rather than shoot for the stars, Paul Adams of DJ Carmichael argues that junior miners should focus on more modest projects best suited to maximizing shareholder value. This means projects with...

Bear markets can be devious creatures. They start off with a lot of emotion, usually some type of euphoria and excessive optimism at the top. But, underneath it all the market is typically thrashing,...

Gold prices climbed sharply this morning, hitting a fresh 4-month high when the China/Hong Kong markets opened. The reasons for this increase can be easily attributed to strong risk aversion which...