Commodities Analysis & Opinion

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...

Is the bear market in mining equities finally over? It looks that way, says Ron Struthers, publisher and editor of Struthers' Resource Stock Report. In this interview with The Gold Report, Struthers...

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...

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...

News coming out of Ukraine has many bracing for the worst. The most serious standoff between the east and the west since the Cold War has political leaders walking on egg shells. The potential for war...

Copper's 3-month forwards prices at the LME moved up sharply by more than 1.60% and settled near $7050. This morning, the same was seen trading at $7050 with no major change overnight. We believe that...

Following the reduced tension regarding Russia and the Ukraine, both WTI and Brent quickly gave back their initial gains from the start of the week. With the WTI-Brent spread reducing and WTI looking...