Commodities Analysis & Opinion

ETF and ETN products tend to add liquidity to the futures markets. The derivatives allow for speculation in commodities futures markets without venturing into the futures arena. They have increased...

The corn market is focussed on the USDA Crop Progress estimates, which are forecast to show a good-to-excellent rating unchanged at 69%. Corn silking progress in Iowa and Indiana are above the...

Copper is trading in an impulsive rally, ideally in wave 5) of three up from 2.844 swing low, meaning we may see some pullbacks once a five-wave cycle is finished in wave three, here around 3.0 area....

Its been a long struggle to move higher for Silver Miners ETF (NYSE:SIL) as it has created a series of lower highs since 2012.Is the long-term trend for this ETF about to change? An important move is...

Oil prices have come all the way back from before the OPEC/Russia price war. Both Brent crude and WTI have defied the skeptics, proving once again that it is futile to fight global central banks. The...

The “poor’s man gold” got more than 80% richer in under four months. And it may have room to expand further.Often portrayed unflatteringly as the less attractive alternative to gold,...

XAU/USD traded higher on Tuesday, after breaking above the 1815 key resistance area (now turned into support) on Monday. What’s more, after briefly breaking below the upside support line drawn...

China's economy grew 3.2 percent in Q2 2020. The expansion was above expectations, but it does not have to sink gold.Last week, China reported that its economy grew 3.2 percent year-on-year in the...

Gold lifted by silver bullets fireworksToday, all the action is again on silver, which has advanced through USD20.00 an ounce, triggering stop-loss buying, jumping 2.0% to USD20.3150 an ounce....

Hopes for stimulus and optimism about the vaccine have brought back demand for risk to the market. The Nasdaq 100 index closed at historic highs on Monday and is testing 11,000 on Tuesday morning on...

Chevron (NYSE:CVX) has decided to acquire Noble Energy (NASDAQ:NBL) in a $5 billion deal, expanding its footprint in U.S. shale and in the Eastern Mediterranean. The acquisition is the first major...

The price of natural gas fell nearly 5% on Monday, as lower U.S. LNG exports threaten to exacerbate inventories, which are already significantly higher than the five-year average.The price of natural...

In what is becoming something of a pattern as the market digests COVID data from over the weekend, oil plunged on Monday only to be reflated by continued optimism that a vaccine for the novel...

Oil prices, despite rising coronavirus fears, are resilient above $40 a barrel. Hopes of more economic stimulus in the U.S. and the E.U. are supportive as well as data on the U.S. oil and gas rig...