Commodities Analysis & Opinion

It seems that choosing VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSE:GDXJ) to short the PMs was a good decision—juniors closed the day at new 2021 lows. Will our profits only grow from now...

Oil is in a correction but not a decline Oil services sector should benefit for next 12-18 months Advances in technology will only fuel further growth in the margins Although crude spot...

API Crude Inventories halt oil recoveryAfter Monday’s price meltdown, oil prices consolidated nervously at their recent lows overnight. Brent crude finished the session 0.20% lower at USD 68.60...

Cocoa grinders from the United States to Europe and Asia upped their processing of the commodity in the second quarter as confectioners sought more of the raw material for turning out chocolates,...

Crude prices are mirroring the rebound with Treasury yields as energy traders still see a very tight market despite all the recent virus jitters.   The oil market could get a lot tighter if...

It always makes it interesting when the bulk of news for a particular commodity is very bullish yet the market acts in the opposite way. As we wrote before July 4, holiday, many times we can see a...

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell admits that inflation is well above the Fed’s target, but he still considers it transitory. Gold increased in response—only to fall again.Last week, Powell...

On Monday, Brent fell more than 7% to $67.4 per barrel. The sell off took place on higher volumes and showed a frightening amplitude during the NY session. On Tuesday morning, the price consolidated...

“I’m going to make sure whoever gambles on this market will be ‘ouching’ like hell',” Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman vowed back in September, in a threat...

It is painful isn’t it, watching the nonsensical performance of the monetary metals. Nothing makes sense at the moment on why we keep seeing red, day after day, given the macro horizon points...

WTI Crude Oil prices were hovering at $66.56, a significant drop from the recent high of 76.98 set on July 6. Oil prices have fallen about 13.5 percent since their latest high. The OPEC+ pact is...

[This is a modified excerpt from a commentary published at TSI on 18th July 2021]One of the most useful intermediate-term indicators of the financial/economic landscape is the performance of...

The extended bullish run for copper has most certainly come to an end for the time being, and if the Doctor Copper moniker is to hold sway, it is not a good omen for stocks in the long term if this is...

Commodities rallied 21% in the first half of 2021, making them the top performing asset group ahead of U.S., European, emerging market and non-Japan Asian stocks. The broad-based index of energy,...