Commodities Analysis & Opinion

To soybean traders—and perhaps planters too—Donald Trump might as well have said that 50 billion pies will fall out of the sky for them each year. Since the U.S. president promised in...

In ‘The Best Laid Plans’, celebrated novelist Sidney Sheldon tells of a protagonist so blinded by ambition that he fails to see the nemesis who could ultimately wreck his plans. Saudi Oil...

WTI may be gearing up for a big comeback. With the outlook shifting fast around talk of deepening OPEC/OPEC+ cuts and indications China’s economic slowdown might be turning a corner, it's...

The din of the trade war was deafening enough that the world’s costliest metal hit another record high this week without too much fanfare. To those who haven’t been paying attention, ...

Like rats fleeing a sinking ship, the funds that feasted on the highs in natural gas futures just weeks ago have abandoned their positions on signs that the near-term icy blast expected in many...

OPEC and OPEC+ will meet next week to assess the state of their production restriction agreement and determine whether to extend it to June.The last time the group met, this past June, the result was...

There are two things oil traders need to keep their eyes on this week: the turkey and volatility. Trading volumes are typically lighter this time of the year due to the travel and holiday around...

When one of the most respected oil bulls ever gives you a surprisingly bearish view of the market in coming years, what do you do?Well, traders who are long oil sent crude prices up again this week,...

According to popular winter lore, the higher the squirrel builds its nest before Christmas, the colder it’ll be. Weatherman John Belski says he spotted squirrels nests at record heights in...

For at least two weeks, oil prices had an unreal, even embarrassing feel to them, rallying in an almost straight line on the puff that the U.S.-China agreement was “close” to happening,...

Rising U.S. crude inventories, a weakening Chinese economy and an ever-elusive trade deal are setting up oil prices for another fall. WTI edged down, slipping from a rebound and extending a slide for...

With all the manufactured excitement over U.S.-China progress and oil bulls’ fantasy over where crude prices could go, it’s a little easy to lose sight sometimes of the commodities that...

The trade deal headlines might have become tiring to the traders, but not to their machines. Headline-reading algorithmic trading models will remain alert to words like “close,”...

One of the top questions plaguing oil forecasters right now is how much of the commodity the U.S. will produce in 2020. Since the fracking revolution began, U.S. production has climbed every year,...