Commodities Analysis & Opinion

The market has moved on from last week’s lower-than-expected CPI print. Instead a stronger USD has weighed on much of the commodities complex, whilst Chinese data released this morning has not...

Gold Spot holding first support at 1790/85. Silver longs at first support at 2030/10 with a low for the day exactly here and a bounce to 2086. WTI Crude unfortunately did not quite reach strong...

Saudi Aramco hints at higher output as world economy shows signs of slowing US Gulf of Mexico oil production back to normal after last week’s brief outage Gold futures hold above $1,800 in...

Preface to all five Hope Springs Eternal posts: My original idea was to have a series of bearish charts that were still intact and the formerly-bearish charts which had been wrecked. The vast majority...

Natural gas futures on the Nymex had a positive week before closing 9% higher than the previous one at $8,78. EIA reported on Thursday a build of 44 Bcf in working underground stocks for the week...

One of the great cash management challenges in this business of engaging in the world's most important financial markets, (our BEGOS bunch being the Bond, Euro, Gold, Oil and S&P 500), is the...

On Thursday, despite the announcement of weekly natural gas inventory, showing a build-up of 44 Bcf, which was larger than the expectation for build-up of 39 Bcf but was smaller than the 5-year...

Somebody should tell gold that a recession is on its way— or has already occurred. We already know that the yield curve inverted last month for the second time this year, but what are other...

There is a lot of market talk about Asia buying up cheap barrels of U.S. crude because the spread between WTI and Brent prices are wide. The reason the U.S. West Texas prices are lower is that Biden...

WTI crude oil has gained more than 6.5% this week, and this strengthening has a pinch of irony. Stock indices managed to surpass the highs of the previous week’s pullback and the weak inflation...

Brent eyes $100 after mixed headline weekThe oil market has bounced back this week, with Brent once more flirting with triple-figures. There’s been a lot to digest this week, with Iran nuclear...

Betting on the outcome of natural disasters is part of a commodity trader’s life. More unfortunate is praying for the worst consequences possible, especially if that’s what the position...

A weaker-than-expected headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) print didn’t provide the PMs with much stimulation, as gold rallied by 0.08%, silver by 1.27%, the GDX ETF by 0.71% and the GDXJ ETF by...