Commodities Analysis & Opinion

The trade deal headlines might have become tiring to the traders, but not to their machines. Headline-reading algorithmic trading models will remain alert to words like “close,”...

One of the top questions plaguing oil forecasters right now is how much of the commodity the U.S. will produce in 2020. Since the fracking revolution began, U.S. production has climbed every year,...

A couple of weeks back, we explored in this column the wild bronco ride that natural gas can be. After five out of six weeks in the red, gas futures on New York’s Henry Hub suddenly turned...

‘Tis the season to be chocolatey. As the top time of the year for bakes and other treats approach, demand and prices for cocoa, the world’s No. 1 confection and beverage commodity is also...

They rose together on the bullish fervor that only the rare confluence of events like the trade war and Fed easing can bring. Now silver, often called the poor man’s gold, looks set to share the...

For 16 months, the trade war theater has played to packed audiences from Washington to New York and Beijing to London. Adding subplots almost daily, the drama seems to have an infinite capacity for...

The biggest bull market of the year in natural gas is shaping up, with huge stakes riding on an intense freeze forecast in the eastern two-thirds of the United States — the country’s...

The OPEC and OPEC+ meetings are a month away, but talk in anticipation of the events is already influencing oil prices. Both Brent and WTI dropped almost 1.5% midday Nov. 6 on news that OPEC...

The most talked about story in the oil market this week might not do much for the price of oil itself. Saudi Aramco’s stock sale, coming after a four-year wait, has hogged energy headlines since...

After a phenomenal summer, nickel has gone quiet suddenly, exhibiting sluggish market action that belies its stature as the year’s biggest winning commodity. Yet, with top producer Indonesia...

It isn’t called the “Wild West of Commodities” for nothing. From a weekly decline of just about 1%, U.S. natural gas is suddenly staring at a humongous gain of 17% for...

Oil and gas companies are posting their third quarter earnings this week and next. So far, the results are varied despite dismal market sentiment on demand growth and generally low oil prices. BP...

Some think it’ll happen in a matter of weeks, or before the year-end. Others are willing to give it until 2020.But most appear to agree on one thing: It’s a matter of when, not if, for...

Is U.S. crude oil production really at record highs? Or is the EIA’s estimate out-of-whack with what’s happening on the ground, especially with the collapse in oil drilling rigs that...