Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Refiners in the world’s largest oil-importing region have not asked for additional supply from the world’s largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia raised its...

OPEC Chief Barkindo: Cutting investments in oil and gas production is misguided Underinvestment in oil & gas would both affect producers and consumers Cutting investments in oil and gas production...

OilCrude prices and US stocks appear to be in lock-step ahead of Friday’s inflation data. Omicron uncertainty and concerns of weakening crude demand snapped a three-day rally in oil...

The oil market continued to strengthen yesterday as concern over the demand impact from the Omicron variant starts to fade. Brent managed to rally more than 3.4%, taking it back above the U.S.$75/bbl...

With an understanding that there is always much more in play than nominal charts (the macro and sector fundamentals, for example, which bounced of late but never did definitively flip positive),...

The Biden administration is starting to realize that their policies of engaging and appeasing Iran have failed. The administration’s desperation to get back into the flawed 2015 Joint...

Market changing events are unpredictable, even in the short term. No one predicted that news about the Omicron variant would cause oil prices to drop on Black Friday. As such, there's no telling where...

Call it the curse of the 'unwintry' winter. A cold season that’s lately been anything but freezing is spelling doom to prices of natural gas, the chief commodity for heating in the United...

Oil prices have been slowly rising since investors exaggerated the Omicron news, causing a 16% drop in oil prices. Brent, the benchmark for crude oil, has risen 9% since Dec. 1, indicating that oil...

By Alex KimaniThe rally in energy commodities has calmed down somewhat at the end of 2021, but base metal prices remain stubbornly high According to the analysts, prices for copper, nickel, cobalt,...

Across the world, politicians are grappling with the reality of expensive energy Price shocks, scarcity, and energy poverty are on the cards after two consecutive years of underinvestment in the oil...

Ranges may hold until the meeting next weekGold has been struggling for direction for a couple of weeks now, which is surprising as it’s one of the few instruments that hasn’t seen...

Oil rises on Omicron optimismCrude prices got an early boost after another round of Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) vaccine data that allayed fears of lockdowns. Despite all the optimism over vaccine efficacy...

The bulls pumped up the market, but with fundamentals deteriorating and corporations largely responsible for the spike, regular investors will be left holding the bag.With investors betting on a Santa...