Commodities Analysis & Opinion

‘Tis the season to be chocolatey. As the top time of the year for bakes and other treats approach, demand and prices for cocoa, the world’s No. 1 confection and beverage commodity is also...

They rose together on the bullish fervor that only the rare confluence of events like the trade war and Fed easing can bring. Now silver, often called the poor man’s gold, looks set to share the...

For 16 months, the trade war theater has played to packed audiences from Washington to New York and Beijing to London. Adding subplots almost daily, the drama seems to have an infinite capacity for...

A week ago, I wrote in defense of the U.S. oil supply-demand data put out by the Energy Information Administration each Wednesday.I argued specifically about the production estimate in the EIA’s...

The biggest bull market of the year in natural gas is shaping up, with huge stakes riding on an intense freeze forecast in the eastern two-thirds of the United States — the country’s...

The OPEC and OPEC+ meetings are a month away, but talk in anticipation of the events is already influencing oil prices. Both Brent and WTI dropped almost 1.5% midday Nov. 6 on news that OPEC...

The most talked about story in the oil market this week might not do much for the price of oil itself. Saudi Aramco’s stock sale, coming after a four-year wait, has hogged energy headlines since...

After a phenomenal summer, nickel has gone quiet suddenly, exhibiting sluggish market action that belies its stature as the year’s biggest winning commodity. Yet, with top producer Indonesia...

Oil and gas companies are posting their third quarter earnings this week and next. So far, the results are varied despite dismal market sentiment on demand growth and generally low oil prices. BP...

Some think it’ll happen in a matter of weeks, or before the year-end. Others are willing to give it until 2020.But most appear to agree on one thing: It’s a matter of when, not if, for...

Is U.S. crude oil production really at record highs? Or is the EIA’s estimate out-of-whack with what’s happening on the ground, especially with the collapse in oil drilling rigs that...

Sitting pretty—at least for now—on their $1,500 perch, gold punters seem convinced about what the Federal Reserve will do on Wednesday. Expectations for a third straight U.S. rate cut are...

It was just what grains markets seemed to have waited for months: China, China, and more China. And when people familiar with China's grains demand indicated on Wednesday—albeit through...

OPEC chatter still has some ability to rally oil prices⁠—at least temporarily. The market proved this when WTI surged 1.6% and Brent gained 1% on the morning of Oct. 22 after Reuter...