Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Gold prices took a breather early Tuesday from yesterday's 1% slump, but the precious metal is poised to mark its worst annual performance in more than 30 years.The bullion market has most probably...

Crude oil fell below the $100 on the final trading session of 2013, and despite the prolonged sideways trading seen this year, crude is poised to end 2013 with the fourth annual increase in five years...

Mining success is not measured in ounces and dollars but instead by healthy margins, argues Robert Cohen, lead portfolio manager with Dynamic Funds. In this interview with The Gold Report, Cohen...

Ever since President Nixon broke the US dollar's last link to gold, the world has been set adrift on a sea of fiat currencies that have been increasingly debased, serving the interests of governments...

Trading volume across all exchanges has been muted lately due to the holidays. Traders are still mostly on vacation which has produced low volatility and a lack of excitement. Not much is going on in...

After drifting 4.2 percent, Chinese bright copper scrap dropped, making it the biggest mover on the weekly Copper MMI® this week. The price of Chinese copper bar rose 1.4 percent after falling 0.2...

Good news for Mirabela Nickel. The company “has secured a US$45 million loan from a consortium of holders of the company’s US$395 million 8.75% senior unsecured notes due 15 April...

Recent "risk on" pressure following Fed's tapering has aided Crude oil prices greatly, pushing commodities higher. However, it should be noted that the largest bullish push in December wasn't the post...

Gold tumbled for the first time in five days as traders shifted their money to equities, offsetting the yellow metal`s shine before the New Year.The bullion market is ready to post its biggest annual...

Crude oil trades above $100 a barrel for a second day supported by the continued unrest in South Sudan and Libya. Meanwhile, the in the US, the world’s largest oil consumer, data showed crude...

Prices opened higher this morning, but bulls were quickly defeated with bears sending price packing much lower quickly, breaking the 1,210 soft support in the process and hitting a low of 1,207.5. At...

Mark Twain once said, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." And, there are many, many things that the public and policymakers know...

Now that's a positive statement to close out the year. Wishful thinking? Perhaps say those bent on an ounce of Gold ($1,212.90) being valued at no more than an ounce of Tungsten ($1.34), if not...