Commodities Analysis & Opinion

In yesterday’s analysis, I explained how extremely likely it was for gold to decline after U.S. Labor Day, and that’s exactly what happened—gold declined. Not only that – it...

Europe and mainly Germany trusted Russian President Vladimir Putin to be a reliable oil and natural gas supplier but now are paying the price for that naivete. Russian President Putin now says that...

Oil prices came under further pressure yesterday, despite OPEC+ agreeing on a small supply cut for October. Meanwhile, supply disruption in the metals market continues to grow, with further aluminium...

Gold continues to be undermined by rising dollar and yields Rising interest rate expectations reduce appeal of zero-yielding assets Metal is testing key support, but it could break it this time Gold...

For at least 10 years, we have seen a trend in gold prices at the beginning of September - they have fallen. Will this happen again now?In previously wrote about the very bearish medium-term trend the...

The world has descended into energy madness. We have seen the good intentions of the green energy movement pave the way to energy hell in Europe. We have the President of the United States and the...

OPEC+ members surprised the market yesterday by agreeing to cut their output target by 100Mbbls/d for October. However, given that OPEC+ has been producing well below production targets for some time...

OPEC+ meeting ends with small production cut Russia was said to have resisted a production cut ahead of meeting OPEC+ decided it could call a meeting at any time The OPEC+ meeting on Monday endorsed...

The natural gas cycle has moved into the October futures contract. The break of an uptrend line and the retreat from the multi-year highs is showing that something may be turning negative in this...

Brent crude is a little lower today after seeing decent gains at the start of the week following the OPEC+ output announcement. The decision to reverse the 100,000 barrel per day increase in September...

The commodity market started the week with growth. Brent grew to $95.05, despite USD's rally. The fundamental horizon of the oil sector remains saturated. The first event is an OPEC+ meeting planned...

Despite a minor weekly opening gap-up, natural gas capped the upside at $9.547. Despite several attempts by the natural gas bulls to find a breakout above this capped limit, all breakouts proved...

Natural gas futures on the Nymex had a volatile week before closing 4% lower than the previous one at $8.90. EIA confirmed on Thursday, a rather average build of 61 bcf for the week ended Aug. 26....

As goes gold's woes, again Bill Shakespeare (significantly paraphrased) comes to mind, circa 1600: "...To test the low, or not to test the low? That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler that Gold...