Commodities Analysis & Opinion

The last two attempts to pick a bottom met with mixed success. We correctly indentified the low, but didn’t make any money trading it. Maybe the third time will be lucky. Traders have again been...

Brent crude oil looked poised to end the week with a gain, despite its slip below $110. The commodity traded at $109.92 at 5:31 GMT on Friday morning.Brent prices were under some pressure earlier in...

Last year around this time, gold was about $450 an ounce more expensive. Back then, it was even speculated that gold was heading towards the $2,000 mark, but instead the downward slope began the...

WTI Crude beat 9780/90 which then acted as support as we eventually broke above 9875 to reach 9949. We now need to hold above the 200 day moving average at 9880 if we are to build on gains &...

Silver collapsed to our target of 1920/19 & continued lower to 1909. Above 1926/28 today we meet resistance at 1936/40 which could hold a move higher. However on a break look for a selling...

Natural Gas unexpectedly tore higher through 4395/00 to reach 4475. We are overbought short term so may see profit taking down to 4435/30. If this does not hold the downside look for a buying...

Brent Crude beat 109.40/50 & shot to our target of 110.30/40 with a high for the day expected & we topped almost exactly here at 110.53. This trade worked perfectly as we sold off to our first...

Gold collapsed through support at 1211 yesterday, tumbling below 1200 and making a low of 1187 yesterday at the bottom boundary of the down trend channel.The sell off has brought gold perilously close...

The announcement by the US Federal Reserve last night that tapering will commence to the tune of USD 10 billion next month was the news that the precious metals market had expected and feared for the...

Gold held ground early Friday after falling to the lowest in six months late yesterday on the selloff that was triggered by the Federal Reserve`s decision to start curbing its bond purchasing...

Crude-oil traded lower in late Asian hours Friday, as low trading volumes are keeping prices volatile. Yet prices headed for the second weekly gain, buoyed by a better outlook for fuel demand in the...

CLOil prices rose in early afternoon trading on Thursday on expectations that the Federal Reserve's decision to trim its monthly USD85 billion asset-purchasing program will herald the arrival of a...

Looking into 2014, Chad Mabry, an analyst at MLV & Co., is more focused than ever on company-specific fundamentals and relative performance indicators, which help him identify the outperformers....

The US Energy Information Administration released on Tuesday an early version of its Annual Energy Outlook for 2014. The main item being that the United States will continue to develop its own oil and...