Commodities Analysis & Opinion

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It's time again for my weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Rounded to the penny, Regular is up six cents and Premium five cents -- the highest prices...

Gold pushed ahead to establish new four-month highs as the uptrend in the yellow metal since the first of the year continues. The intraday high thus far is 1338.97, a level last seen in...

If you had asked us in the spring of 2011 how severe of a decline in spot prices we expected in silver, we would have based an educated perspective on the previous cycle breakdown for the Nasdaq...

A weekly technical update each Monday in spreadsheet format to help you develop that week's game plan by identifying the short, medium and long-term trends as well as support and resistance levels and...

Talking PointsCrude Oil Surges Above $97.50 Following Bullish Inventories Figures Gold Swings Higher As US Data May Suggest Less-Aggressive “Taper” Timeline Precious Metals Could...

Last week's missive called for some natural pullback in the price of Gold near-term prior to its then continuing higher over the broader time frame. Any near-term pullback notwithstanding, let's...

The rural economy shrunk for the first time since September 2012. The extreme cold and falling grain prices seen at the end of January were cited as the reasons for the decrease. Farmland values and...

Gold future targets break above 1337 retrace level; risk to 1362, 1375 and 1380 into early MarchA solid tone into the latter part of last week further highlights reluctance to confirm the bearish...

MCX Natural Gas February as seen in the weekly chart above has opened with the open = low formation at 325.90 and during this period prices rallied sharply higher breaking the resistance of 360 levels...

MCX Crude March as seen in the weekly chart above has opened the week at 6260 levels and during this period moved lower and as expected found very good support at 6233 levels. Later prices rallied...

Natural Gas jumped higher once again, approaching the recent 5 year high reached slightly under 1 month ago. Reason for the rally? The cold weather that just doesn't seem to go away which has...

WTI Crude is finally showing some sign of weakness after staying lifted last week, but bulls are not letting go without a fight. Prices fell below 103.0 resistance, then turned resolutely to support...

After consolidating the breakout from the down trend channel last week, gold has started the current trading week on a positive note, moving above $1330 after a shallow correction that tested the 200...