Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Crude oil is about to enter its third month of price consolidation around the $40-per-barrel level on the nearby NYMEX WTI futures contract. After trading to a negative price in late April, the energy...

It was not too long ago when the U.S. lacked refining capacity. Politicians complained about high gas prices yet made it almost impossible to bring them down because it was practically impossible...

The new prompt-month September contract for Natural Gas Futures traded in a range between $1.77 and $1.94 last week as traders weighed a not-so-impressive first half of August from a weather...

The Gold futures contract reached another new record high on Friday at the price level of $2,005.40. The market has slightly extended its recent advance again. The market gained 0.97%, but the...

Oil’s summer doldrums continueOil’s long summer holiday continues, with both Brent crude and WTI rallying modestly on Friday, but still firmly ensconced in their one-month ranges. Asian...

Will there be another wild swing in US crude stockpiles this week? After weeks of out-of-whack numbers from the Energy Information Administration that totally tripped up the market, oil traders...

Gold Futures have formed a ‘Golden Saucer’ in a monthly chart, and currently, surface-tension due to overflow could push Gold Futures out of the ‘Golden Saucer.’There is no...

Front month (Dec) Gold topped 2000 for the 1st time ever. Gold settled out the week below 2000, but not before having made another All-Time High at 2005. Gold's having tapped Two Thousand is price's...

Gold Non-Commercial Speculator Positions:Large precious metals speculators lowered their bullish net positions in the Gold futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders...

As tracked in NFTRH, in 2019 the macro backdrop became positive for the gold stock sector as gold entered a bull market by taking out the 1378 level and its ratios to stock markets began to rise....

Like it or not, you’re now a speculator – whether you own gold, stocks or bonds, or even if you leave all your savings in cash or a certificate of deposit paying you a microscopic interest...

Is gold forming another long-term bullish cupping pattern? Sure could be. Is the long-term pattern complete? If history is a guide, it would suggest not yet. When gold attempted to break above its...

OPEC plus is going to rollback its production cuts and add 1.5 million barrels per day of oil to the global oil market starting Aug. 1. When OPEC+ decided to raise output early last month, it looked...

It’s called the “poor man’s gold”. Yet, there’s nothing poor about silver’s performance this month, as it holds the crown for commodity returns in July.On track to...