Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Commodities and foreign junk bonds were the only winners last week for the major asset classes, based on a set of exchange traded funds. Otherwise, red ink dominated results for the US trading week...

Stock markets are under moderate pressure on Monday morning. To clarify, "moderate pressure" translates into a fifth consecutive session of declines for the S&P500, dumping the index by 1.6% from...

US crude stocks data will determine the direction for oil prices this week as both production and refining resume slowly in Texas and the Plains, after last week’s disruptive storms that pushed...

No, we're not revising downward our Gold forecast high for this year of 2401. However, from the "Nothing Moves in a Straight Line Dept."—and as has been our cautionary concern of...

Gold continues to wallow near its recent low price level, near $1765. Silver has continued to trend moderately higher—but still has not broken out to the upside. Many analysts have continued to...

Just kidding. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKa) may or may not own copper stocks. I did not dig deep enough to find out. For the purposes of this post it does not matter.With the...

The bearish sentiment in gold and miners is running rampant.Let‘s get right into the charts (all courtesy of www.stockcharts.com).Dollar and Treasuries The world reserve currency is on the...

As poorly as precious metals have done since Aug. 6, silver has remained relatively frisky. Compared to gold, it has been doing great lately. Here is the SLV/GLD ratio chart. Long-term, silver still...

While Texas residents are still grappling with the aftermath of winter storm Uri, which resulted in extreme cold and a catastrophic blackout, a new winter storm named Viola could add one more leg in...

An easing in the severity of the Texas big chill appears to have been the critical factor that set off the tumble in oil prices overnight. With the speculative market long to the eyeballs in recent...

As an investor, you might follow today’s news to gauge markets. A chartist evaluates daily, weekly, and monthly charts. The fundamentalist might add a few hundred years of market behavior and...

The warmer temperature forecast is keeping a lid on natural gas pricesNatural gas prices corrected from a recent high of 3.316 on the expectation of change in the weather forecast. Warmer weather...

Whether its energy, metals or edibles, the 2021 commodities rally has been remarkable for its breadth and depth, covering almost every sphere of the raw materials sector, and producing double-digit...

With the yellow metal just posting its lowest close since June and a bearish pattern forming, how vulnerable is gold to a further decline?Gold and mining stocks just broke to new yearly lows –...