Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Is it just me, or are the banks, who’ve never really cared about the direction of gold bullion, turning outright negative on the precious metal?• A research paper by Canadian Imperial Bank...

Despite all of the talk about China and India buying lots of gold (high demand) and how the precious metal is a limited resource (limited supply), I still do not like the commodity as a buy-and-hold...

Gold stalled around $1250 on Monday and, with momentum waning, it was no surprise to see gold sell off yesterday. The price fell as low as $1218, finding suppot at the 20 DMA and a local top appears...

It has been disappointing to see the decline over the past three years in the resource sector and commodities, but it does not surprise me. We are living in volatile, chaotic times when governments...

We’ve recently written quite a bit about the current technical situation in precious metals as well as the current bear market compared to past bear markets. Thus we’ve neglected sentiment...

Gold started the year in an upbeat due to retracements in the global stock markets, but now that the main indexes around the world are starting to come back up, gold is also going back to its medium...

There’s an interesting relationship between crude oil and gold that I like to keep an eye on. When the green line on the chart below is rising we know that crude oil is outperforming (rising...

Gold remains defensive within the range established Monday as the dollar continues to gain ground. The dollar index pushed to new 7-week highers above 81.00, underpinned by improved U.S. economic data...

The gold price has shown itself to be relatively resilient in the first week of 2014, however it is about to face a barrage of headwinds in the coming days and weeks courtesy of the US Federal...

We have long held the view that mining stocks are poor performers; last year we made 16 trades to this effect and made money on every single one. The sector has underperformed both precious metals and...

Gold is struggling to hold the high levels seen on the first days of the year 2014. It cannot be a shocker as we all know how bad Gold was doing during the last year. Only the minority believes that...

Zinc finished marginally higher by 0.3% at the LME platform marginally recovering from its intraday lows along with Copper and Aluminum.- Even though the commodity saw a surge in its inventories by...

Copper closed marginally higher by 0.3% at the LME platform as the positive retail sales data from Germany and positive Trade balance data from the US gave a boost to European and US equities which in...

January 08, 2014 14:25- Aluminum ended yesterday’s trading session marginally higher by 0.1% at the LME platform marginally recovering from the intraday lows to closeat $1785/MT mark.- The...