Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Investing.com’s Commodities Week Ahead typically looks at the prospects for oil and gold prices in the upcoming trading week. In this two-part series, however, which began on Sunday, we examined...

To me, the most believable thing about the Saudis, Russians and the rest of OPEC meeting again is that they’ll be meeting again.Everything else is a big “if,” including production...

First they did it to oil. Next, they might do it to gold.Russia’s often underestimated strength as a global economic influencer is beginning to dawn on some investors as crude prices languish at...

COVID-19 has changed almost every way the world works. Governments are paying people to stay at home. Landlords are telling tenants to use rent money to settle other bills first. And Texas is telling...

It could well be time to short oil again.Last week, we expected oil to rebound toward $30, along with a rising flag. But conditions appear worse than we had anticipated after the commodity's...

Don’t worry about oil prices going to the teens. They already have, between Friday’s settlement and Monday’s open, in that black hole called electronic trading.As I write this, U.S....

A week ago, I suggested to readers who were long gas that the worst might not be over yet for them.My conjecture was based on the 25-year low of $1.56 hit by the front-month gas contract for each...

Like a Disney animation, gold suddenly seems to have transformed with the wave of a fairy pixie’s wand and sprinkle of magic dust.From a safe haven that looked anything but “safe”...

Is the first U.S. gasoline build in eight weeks looming? At least one veteran watcher of the energy space seems to think so.Dominick Chirichella, who has tracked the oil and gas markets for over...

Yes, we know that the headline may evoke some disparaging comments. Yes, we’re aware that there’s a global pandemic that's disrupting manufacturing lines and shipping supply chains, and we...

How long will it be before crude trades in the teens?It's a question without doubt in the minds of us all, though another question to be asked is what will happen to shale oil at those prices.West...

Over the last decade, Texas could only think of one thing to tell its oil industry: “drill, baby, drill!”Now, the Lone Star State is telling those same drillers: “slower, baby,...

For some longs in natural gas still shuddering at finding themselves at 25-year lows after this week’s 14% price collapse, I hate to be the bearer of this news: the worst isn’t over.The...

The price of oil just crashed to below $25.00 as we write this. That's right below the intraday low and $26.21 closing price of February 2016. It's also in line with the commodity's 17-year low hit in...