Commodities Analysis & Opinion

With oil prices now in the same price range they saw in mid-March, the commodity seems to have recovered from its brief swoon. Still, news about the industry is not always as it is presented. In Asia,...

“There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people,” Bill Bowerman, the co-founder of Nike and legendary Olympics track and field coach, once said.Likewise, in natural gas, can we...

The super-inflated agricultural markets have cooled since the start of May, with corn headed for its worst week in a year, wheat tumbling the most in seven weeks and soybeans just slightly higher...

With palladium smashing the $3,000-an-ounce barrier last week, forecasts are calling for $4,000 record highs by September for the autocatalyst metal that’s in dire short supply.As probable as...

The price of oil has been ranging, as market worries whipsaw between optimism on a reopening global economy versus the resurgence of COVID-19 in many parts of the world which might delay the...

An array of market developments and geopolitical catalysts are currently moving the price of oil higher. Below, the 5 key triggers:1. Why Oil Prices Shot Up Wednesday MorningAfter barely moving for...

Copper is headed for its second month in three of double-digit gains, after hitting a 10-year high. But that’s not why you’re here. You’re reading this to find out if it has more to...

It doesn’t happen often, but investors long on arabica coffee beans are about to wrap their best month in five while shareholders of iconic coffee chain Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) might be due for...

It isn’t exactly rotational play but investor confidence is bubbling over in agricultural markets, with soybeans leading the three main US crop futures for the best week in almost eight years,...

The US cold season is overstaying its welcome and no one is more impatient to see its end than natural gas bears.Since mid-March, chilly winds have been the staple in the US Northeast to Midwest...

This oil market is different from anything traders have experienced before, in part because the stabilizing forces and traditional indicators have been turned on their heads.Here is a look at what...

Palladium is back to making record highs as gold eyes a less stellar achievement—recapturing the key $1,800 berth it lost in late February.While the potential upward moves in the two coincide,...

India has been added to a “red list” of countries from which most travel to the UK is banned, over fears of a new coronavirus variant. Oil traders, in a sense, should also put the third...

Against a backdrop of worsening global infections from COVID-19 variants, oil appears to have one thing to count on: the optimistic US story.Crude prices got off to a weak start in Asia on Monday on...