Commodities Analysis & Opinion

OPEC+ will be meeting next Wednesday, Feb. 2, to assess the market and set production policy for March. The current status quo calls for the group to increase its total production by 400,000 barrels...

As this January shapes into the month when Americans may use the most heating for a winter in seven years, energy traders are grappling with the question: Will the next few natural gas drawdowns from...

The natural gas futures are sustaining above the psychological support at $4 in today’s move as the demand will be strong through the weekend. A series of frigid blasts sweep across the...

OilBrent crude prices breached the $90 level, the highest level since 2014, joining a broad risk-on Wall Street move and shrugging off a somewhat bearish EIA crude oil inventory report. Energy traders...

WTI oil prices are back above $86.00 a barrel, and Brent hit the highest level since October of 2014. The market is in breakout mode as oil inventories continue to slip and geopolitical tensions...

Metals are trying to shine ahead of the Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting. So far, they are pretty shy, but the small movements seen now can develop into something bigger in the near future. Today we...

For a fourth time in five months, cotton prices have hit decade highs. For investors, the question is simple: Will the market retreat meaningfully to allow an entry off its highs, and how much higher...

Gold rallied by almost $10 Monday, while the S&P 500 reversed and ended the session in the green. Why did miners decline anyway?Because they’re weak, that’s why. This is because there...

There is a vast discrepancy between estimated global oil inventories and the actual observed levels of global oil stocks.Estimates from the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed last week that 200...

Gold/ForexGold was rallying earlier this week as investors ran to safety over fears the Fed will aggressively tighten policy and as the list of geopolitical risks continued to grow: The...

Interestingly, over the past six years gold and silver have not been correlated to rising inflation expectations. They have appeared to lead inflation expectations by several months. Recent increases...

The World Gold Council believes gold may face similar dynamics in 2022 to those of last year. Well, I’m not so sure about it.Have you ever had the feeling that all of this has already happened...

Oil prices are on high alert after the Biden administration put troops on high alert in Eastern Europe. Oil traders are also on high alert, looking at global asset prices as the Fed meets to tell us...