Commodities Analysis & Opinion

With conviction about the recovery from COVID-19 growing by the day, the price of every commodity is reaching for its pre-pandemic dynamism. For gold, nothing could be worse.Unlike oil or copper,...

The red metal soars to a decade high Stockpiles are low, but manipulation is common The case for new record highs in copper Risk rises with the price Levels to watch: Producers are golden, but costs...

The first thing you need to do is forget the impact the February US jobs report will have on the gold price beyond today. Forget it, because the impact will most likely be what Federal Reserve...

OPEC and OPEC+ meet on Thursday, Mar. 4 and Friday, Mar. 5, respectively, to consider increasing oil production during April and beyond. There are two issues at stake for OPEC+ this week, both related...

As frightful as the Texas deep-freeze blitz and the euphoria of $3 plus pricing was three weeks back, a new challenge has crept into natural gas: the dawn of spring weather and keeping support at the...

In the world of oil, Saudi Arabia likes to pride itself as the producer of last resort. Recent years have, however, proven a more appropriate description for the kingdom as a crude producer: the loser...

In this column a week ago, we cautioned of gold and oil prices having reached inflection points, following a tumble in the dollar and the aftermath of the Arctic blitz that hit Texas’ oil and...

This week and next, traders must understand that U.S. numbers will be skewed by the winter freeze that hampered oil production in Texas last week. Next week, traders should be prepared for news from...

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...