Commodities Analysis & Opinion

It was just what grains markets seemed to have waited for months: China, China, and more China. And when people familiar with China's grains demand indicated on Wednesday—albeit through...

OPEC chatter still has some ability to rally oil prices⁠—at least temporarily. The market proved this when WTI surged 1.6% and Brent gained 1% on the morning of Oct. 22 after Reuter...

The winter optimism seen among natural gas punters in October 2018 isn’t prevalent yet this year, despite signs of strong early cold resurfacing in the United States.The divergence is resulting...

British premier Boris Johnson’s do-or-die move on Brexit adds new dread for oil longs this week, along with uncertainties over China’s economic growth and talk of Russia missing OPEC...

If there’s one season in the calendar that oil bulls wish would just go away, it must be the season for refinery maintenance. Refiners typically shutter their plants during spring and fall for...

When U.S. President Donald Trump announced that trade negotiations with China were progressing well via Twitter Oct. 11, oil markets reacted swiftly. By 2:00 pm, they'd gained 1.5% and then, news...

Gold is back to flirting with $1,500, with futures crossing that territory and bowing out before Monday’s settlement in New York. Bullion, meanwhile, has parked itself within striking distance...

The United States said on Friday it has reached a tariffs “pause” with China. At this point, we need to hit the rewind button to go back to December 2018 to see what happened after...

Oil had been looking as if it were heading toward a Dead Cat Bounce, a term used when a fall is so hard that even a dead feline would bounce when it hit bottom. Prices often do the same, as dip buyers...

Ecuador recently announced it intends to leave OPEC at the start of 2020. As the South American country is the fourth smallest producer in OPEC—it produces about 540,000 barrels per day at the...

The weather across America is blowing dry to cold, stressing crops and harvests and creating sudden bull opportunities for investors. In the Northern Plains, a crop freeze is developing in corn. In...

The good news for oil bulls is that there’s a good chance for the market to rebound each time it approaches the $50 per barrel support. The bad news is there aren’t any events in the...

Away from the madness in crude oil and intrigue in gold, another commodity has been having a drama of its own over the past month. Raw sugar, which fell to a near one-year low just four weeks ago, has...

Crude oil prices appear to have recovered after the attack on Saudia Arabia oil installations caused a spike mid-September. Immediately following the strike just two and a half weeks ago, Brent crude...