Commodities Analysis & Opinion

The price of platinum, the precious metal commonly used in catalytic converters which help limit auto engine emissions, has been fluctuating wildly for over a week. On Feb. 16, the metal—which...

Newton’s Law says what goes up, must come down. Those long oil don’t want to hear that, of course.Like the proverbial multi-lived cat, the rally in crude oil has outlasted one fatal test...

Just three years ago, world GDP was growing at 3% a year, but copper prices were falling more than 20%. Here was Dr. Copper, the metal so called for its supposed ability to diagnose any ailment in the...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.com Rising grain prices increase cost of meat production A bullish trend in live and feeder cattle futures Lean hogs break to the upside Grilling...

US crude stocks data will determine the direction for oil prices this week as both production and refining resume slowly in Texas and the Plains, after last week’s disruptive storms that pushed...

It's coming up on a year since the coronavirus pandemic exploded across the world and global lockdowns expanded beyond China to almost all of the rest of the world. The global oil demand situation...

Call it the black swan event of natural gas.Just like how COVID-19 totally threw the world off guard, the Artic freeze that’s paralyzed part of the energy production in Texas has caught the US...

Bone-chilling weather throughout a significant portion of the United States over the past few days—including a rare deep freeze accompanied by winter storms across much of the country's south,...

From energy to metals and agriculture, China is setting global commodity markets alight. Demand from the economy that is leading the world in beating the coronavirus is soaring. Topping the gains in...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.com Inflation can be a tough beast to tame Cotton explodes to a multi-year high; Memories of a decade past Lumber snaps back to near its all-time...

When analyzing oil fundamentals, traders must assess demand from a regional perspective. In the last few years we have seen regular talk that India will not be a major player in the future of demand...

Volatile weather forecasts are keeping natural gas traders on the edge as predicting storage draws for heating gets trickier by the week.Little about this winter has been normal, from the slow arrival...

As this year’s best-performing edible commodity, corn has barely taken a break from its marathon gains since May 2020. While some consolidation over the past two weeks has longs wondering...

Based on the chart, which showed a price surge of 22% in just three sessions, one might have thought the asset depicted was Bitcoin. Surprisingly, the spike—from the low on Jan. 28 to the high...