Commodities Analysis & Opinion

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...

The trend is your friend, we often hear. And the trend doesn’t advocate being bullish on natural gas now, especially in a market plummeting with the velocity of a space shuttle returning to...

After months of quiet, palladium is erupting into record highs again, giving profit-chasing precious metals investors an outlet just as gold collapses from the exhaustion of a five-month long...

Two weeks ago, this column cautioned that if you were rushing to add to oil’s geopolitical premium in the aftermath of the Saudi attack, it was good to remember there were huge risks on both...

With just two sessions left to the best September in seven years for U.S. natural gas, some are wondering if the rest of the year will continue to see strong enough prices to flip a market that, to...

History is a good predictor of the future, so goes the saying. And few things might prove that better than backdated U.S. crude inventories, where an extraordinary narrative of chronologically...

What is the chance of a U.S. sitdown with Iran in the coming days, weeks or months? And if that were to happen, what would become of oil prices and their impact on Saudi Aramco’s already-delayed...

The fact that oil needs a higher geopolitical premium after the Saudi attack is not really for debate. The question is how much that premium ought to be. Crude prices saw an exaggeration last week of...

Investing in gold is a pure bet on the economy. The precious metal hit a six-year high this month as central banks globally eased their monetary policy to deal with the slowdown in growth triggered by...