Commodities Analysis & Opinion

WTI is falling for the second day following reports that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are nearing a deal to restart production in the shared neutral zone along their border which has been untouched for...

Another decade has gone by in commodities, with none the wiser on whether the world is any closer to hitting peak demand or production in oil and a return to $100 pricing on a barrel of crude. As the...

From New York to London to Beijing, there is less fear of a recession in 2020, as the U.S. economic juggernaut aligns with a tentative trade deal for China and a smoother path for Brexit. Looking at...

For oil traders focused on the production side of the industry, a serious concern is always the ability to identify the so-called swing producers, usually identified by a country, capable of moving...

What’s coming out of the ground isn’t likely to be as strong as what’s being “felt” on the ground — that seems to be the problem of natural gas bulls. We’re...

Palladium has already made history at $2,000 and gold is back to within striking distance of $1,500, prompting investors to wonder about the other precious metal that matters to most: Will silver see...

A week ago, I asked if oil could finish the year at $70, and by that, I meant for a barrel of Brent, the global crude benchmark. Looking at Brent at the time of writing — in Monday’s...

In an Oscar-worthy showing, palladium qualified on Thursday as the second costliest metal ever, beating gold after an eight-year struggle. Two nominations now await the auto-catalyst metal: Best...

The midweek announcement by Chevron Corp (NYSE:CVX) sliced like a scythe across the heart of the natural gas industry, underscoring the idiom: “It is what it is.” With shale...

At a glance, it looks doomed, lying at the bottom of the heap with a loss of more than 20%—officially the worst performing commodity of 2019. But scratch a little beneath the skin of its charts...

Saudi Oil Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman made two audacious bets last week. His first was that OPEC’s biggest “serial offenders”—Iraq and Nigeria—will stop breaching their...

Could oil finish the year above $70? And if it does, will it stay above that level in 2020? Lots of numbers will be flying about in the coming days on how high Brent crude and its peer WTI could go...

Dunkin runs on it; it’s been touted as the elixir of life; and now coffee may just be the caffeine booster your flagging portfolio needs before 2019 comes to an end. A crunch in Brazilian output...

It’ll come at some point; exactly when, no one’s sure. So we keep betting on what everyone says, getting more frustrated by the day as it remains elusive. This U.S.-China trade deal...