Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Oil prices are climbing for the second day after a Yemeni separatist attack on Saudi oil fields on Saturday added further tension to an already precarious Mideast environment. At the same time, the...

Will the Fed lend a helping hand to commodity markets this week? Or will it kick oil and gold prices down the alley?The Federal Reserve holds its annual gathering in Jackson Hole from Thursday through...

They’ve seen many years of false starts, but gold bugs probably can’t be surer than now of the rally in the shiny metal.Sought in both good times—think jewelry and other ornamental...

When oil prices were heading to $80 per barrel last summer, it took a few phone calls and an announcement from OPEC and Russia to stabilize the market. The current reality presents an entirely...

A blast of warm weather expanding toward the northeastern United States is giving bulls in natural gas hope for their first week of gains after five miserable weeks in the red. Yet, if the recent...

Crude traders, fasten your seat belts: This market might be in for one heck of a ride.Oil prices are experiencing some of their greatest volatility ever as the U.S.-China trade war yanks crude around...

Saudi Arabia is apparently determined not to let oil prices crash again like last year.But with more than half of the peak summer driving period in the U.S. over, does the Kingdom and the enlarged...

Oil surged Thursday after reports Saudi Arabian officials were holding discussions with other oil producers about possible market intervention to stabilize falling prices. Exporters have already been...

Gold bulls are on a high ride they haven’t been in a while, and the experience could only get more dizzying.A near decade-long expansion of the U.S. economy had previously trapped gold prices in...

So, is Donald Trump winning the trade war with China, at least from a commodities perspective?It might sound like a premature—even odd—question, considering that China just devalued its...

Donald Trump’s plan for additional China tariffs is expected to wreak new waves of disruption across global markets this week, pressuring oil particularly even as Iranian tensions continue to...

A sudden rebound in natural gas prices may be giving confidence of longer term recovery to those long on the fuel, but analysts caution that the market may not entirely be out of the woods...