Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Crude oil advanced on Monday after Iran and six world powers failed to reach a deal on Tehran's nuclear program during their meeting in Geneva during the weekend, tempering expectations of an end to...

Friday WTI made a low of 93.90 before trading higher making a high of 94.92 - quite a tight range for oil and we seem to be stuck in a trading range. However this morning we have traded sideways. We...

Brent Crude got so close to our buying opportunity at strong support at 102.80/50 but frustratingly bounced a little early at 102.98. We shot higher and need to hold support at 105.10/00 to target...

Silver has at last found direction and resumed the two and a half year bear trend, despite being oversold. This morning's open below the 100 day moving average at 21.43 is confirmation and could test...

Everybody wonders where gold is headed now and no one knows the answer. As we all know, history tends to repeat itself, so I decided to look for a clue in the past and analyse the previous resumption...

CLCrude traded near a five-month low on signs markets are oversupplied despite an economic recovery in the U.S., the world’s largest oil user. OPEC, which produces about 40 percent of the...

Last Friday's US Non-Farm Payroll gave Gold the bearish push that we've been looking for, sending prices resolutely below 1,300.Generally there is a fear that such news-inspired moves may not simply...

Optimistic, but unwarranted, energy supply forecasts permeate the media (courtesy of the oil and gas industry) even as the occasional dire scenario gets coverage. But, it is well to remember that none...

When one understands the widely pervasive but narrowly understood phenomenon of cognitive dissonance that permeates most of the Western world, it is not so difficult to put into context the disparity...

As investors, we regularly track sectors of the stock market - especially the S&P 500. Analysts, newsletter writers, bloggers and traders check the relative performance of cyclicals against...

All people in the futures markets are there to make money, [hedgers excepted], or they would not subject themselves so unnecessarily to the risks. Even buyers of the physical, Stackers, want to get as...

The news that the US economy created over 200,000 new jobs gave the upper hand to those who were short precious metals. Some out there feel that a taper (or reduction) of the nearly 1 trillion dollar...

Friday's NFP number was a ray of hope if you believe the numbers coming in at 204,000 jobs added in October with the consensus only being 120,000. The unemployment rate rose to 7.3% from 7.2%. There...

Investors are keeping a keen eye on China this week as the world's second-biggest economy gears up for its Third Plenum of the Communist Party. The summit of China's leaders is expected to deliver...