Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Take note of this date: May 11. By then, if the math is right, the physical price of U.S. crude should be back in negative territory—though I have a hunch it will happen earlier.As everyone...

This post was written exclusively for Investing.comOil's dramatic example educated traders Electricity has gone negative, and natural gas has the potential The put-call option relationship in...

Everything in oil this week may depend on how quickly things fall—and by that, I mean the open interest in U.S. crude’s front-month, production reported by the EIA, capex cuts announced by...

Investor optimism boosted by unprecedented government stimulus measures gave birth to a new bull market for equities after the shortest bear market in history, barely three weeks long, ended...

Natural gas bulls know a thing or two about negative pricing. They also know when it’s time for their fuel to make some hay — especially now, as the sun gets blotted out on gas’ more...

Across the commodities universe, the loudest rumblings are about the carnage in oil, Monday’s historic subzero prices for U.S. crude and how finding tankers to store oil is like finding...

Is U.S. crude doomed to finish another week under $20? It depends not just on oil supply and storage, but also on how markets digest America’s progress through the COVID-19 pandemic and the...

Before the OPEC deal was finalized at the weekend, I wrote that oil will probably be going to hell in a handbasket if the cartel and the rest of the world don’t agree on cuts. Five days later,...

Sell the front, buy the back. The classic trade developing in natural gas — or, for that matter, in oil or any commodity with a hopeless immediate outlook now — is creating a...

It’s the question reverberating across the gold universe: With the yellow metal well past $1,700 an ounce, is $1,900 and a new record high happening this year?Before we get to even that,...

You’d expect Donald Trump to say it, of course. The U.S. president wants to be seen as the savior of everything American, from jobs to oil. But to hear the Saudi Energy Minister state that he...

Buy the fact, sell the rumor: that’s the likely course for oil as misplaced faith in an output pact achieved by major producers leads to a rebound, before underwhelming production cuts from the...

A potential end to 17 weeks of storage draws in U.S. natural gas looms as power burns suddenly jump and temperatures beckon lower. The conflicting trends have revived volatility in a commodity often...

It’s hard for me to look away from oil, with crude at one of its most defining moments ever between landmark production cuts or a deeper price crash. Yet there are 30 other commodities in...