Commodities Analysis & Opinion

The grains race looks like a photo finish to the close between two of its three contenders. Both corn and wheat are up more than 21% for the year in a neck-and-neck race for the grains crown for...

It started the year quite promisingly, even hitting record highs above $3,000 an ounce at one point. But the global supply chain snarl in automotive chips has done ​​palladium in,...

On Monday, the price of iron ore surged as much as 7.3% in China, on expectations that the world's largest importer of the commodity will provide stimulus next year to boost the Sino economy. Iron...

Will Jerome Powell and the Fed double down and “get it done” by March? If it means a stimulus taper at twice the previously-announced pace and a rate hike that could come a quarter...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.com New highs in the dollar index The prospects for rising US interest rates are bullish for the US currency Commodities have been rallying since the...

Does gold have a chance to sprint toward $1,800 or even $1,900 before the year ends?It depends pretty much on how the yellow metal reacts to Friday’s inflation data reflected by the Consumer...

Call it the curse of the 'unwintry' winter. A cold season that’s lately been anything but freezing is spelling doom to prices of natural gas, the chief commodity for heating in the United...

Traders long oil may boast about how spectacularly crude prices have snapped back from recent lows after this week’s easing of Omicron concerns.But there’s a commodity that’s owed...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.com The stairs higher and an elevator lower The crude oil trend remains higher - Higher lows on the horizon US energy policy supports higher crude...

A year-end sell-off is accelerating in ​​raw sugar as concerns about demand are heightened by the new COVID variant, Omicron. After a drop of almost 7% over two weeks, the question...

Oil markets plummeted last Friday, pressured by pandemic headlines out of South Africa. Local doctors in Botswana announced late last week they'd detected a new coronavirus strain—dubbed the...

Two weeks ago, I asked this pertinent question in my column on natural gas: Could it hit mid-$4 or below, before the cold really arrives in the United States?At the time of my muse, the spot...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell testified before Congress on Tuesday and among other things said inflation is a bigger problem than the central bank had admitted until now. He added that it's now appropriate...

To most gold bulls, what Jerome Powell suggested would be the last thing they’d have expected from the Fed chair: A faster taper of the pandemic-era stimulus that the central bank has...