Commodities Analysis & Opinion

For oil, the lowest prices of 2019 came at the start of the year with WTI at only $42.52 per barrel and Brent priced at $49.93. Currently, both are in the $60 range as WTI hovers at the low end and...

For this almost-finished decade, every sector in commodities has a different story to tell. In base metals, it’s about copper: the metal that’s supposed to tell us everything we need to...

Stranger things have happened in a decade, so it’s probably not surprising that as we reach another ten-year marker in precious metals, gold is still the number one hedge for inflation and the...

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...

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...

Last week OPEC delivered what is being called the “Saudi surprise” to oil markets—just in time for the holidays. After two days filled with contentious meetings, OPEC and its...

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...