Commodities Analysis & Opinion

After 18 months of negotiations, progress has been made in reviving the Iran nuclear deal. ​ We’ve been here before and have seen talks fall apart. ​ What is a little different this...

With commodities getting whacked on Aug. 15, gold, silver, and mining stocks materially underperformed the S&P 500. Moreover, with bond and commodities markets more attentive to Fed...

Gold is dancing around a previously broken-down ascending triangle on the daily! Original Post

Oil prices are edging higher on Wednesday, bouncing off technical support over the last 24 hours as Chinese Premier Li pushed for more pro-growth measures from local officials. There are growing...

In my post of March 2 on Crude Oil, I mentioned that my previous price Targets 1 and 2 (100.00 and 111.00-112.00), which I'd identified in my prior post of February 24, had been hit...and...

Brent Johnson of Santiago Capital, one of the biggest dollar bulls joins us to share his updated views on markets. In the spring he discussed potential for a leg up in the dollar and big correction in...

In light of that, let’s do something a bit more practical this week, shall we?One question (or concern, if you will) we often get is how do you protect yourself in an inflation or...

Oil prices are sliding once more after tumbling on Monday following some woeful Chinese data. The unexpected MLF rate cut from the PBOC may have further spooked traders as it’s unlikely to have...

Despite the highly massaged CPI report last week, inflation remains entrenched and persistent at a historically high level. Meanwhile, the economy continues to contract, average household real...

WTI, Brent Down At Multi-Month LowsCrude oil prices are down at multi-month lows after China released worse-than-expected economic activity data and issued an unexpected interest rate cut. The...

Oil prices were down on concerns that Iran could accept the EU proposal to get back into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (a nuclear deal reached by Iran and China, France, Germany, Russia, the...

The commodity market is selling at the beginning of another August week. Influenced by fundamental news, Brent is retreating down to $97.20.Saudi Aramco (TADAWUL:2222), officially the Saudi Arabian...

Silver has bounced up to 5/8ths of the June-July move down and may be subject to some profit taking in the short run. This is the difficult of bear market rallies – it is hard to evaluate when...

One area where traders are paying attention to the Chinese data is clearly commodity markets, with crude off 2% on Monday. The figures from China really are a concern and the authorities have a big...