Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Wednesday March 15: Five things the markets are talking aboutVolatility is rising this week, with the VIX stateside jumping the most in four-weeks yesterday. In Europe, elections remain a wild card...

Later today we will likely hear that the United States Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, perhaps more than was expected just a few weeks ago. What will this do to the price of oil, which is...

The big story coming out of the November presidential elections was the flurry of “Trump Trades” that soared on an incremental surge of optimism and expectations. Now the growing story...

April gold futures continues to settle above the 1200 level by the barest of margins. The market has endured a $60.00 break from the February highs due to increased expectations of a interest rate...

Those not involved in the steel industry tend to look at large, integrated blast furnace steel plants as dated technology light-years from the gleaming glass and concrete operations of IT or...

Something had to give one way or the other. With all the oil traders piled onto the long side, either demand had to seriously pick up (or plausibly appear ready to do so) or the weak hands would start...

This video looks at a selection of charts from the Tuesday Macro Technicals report. The charts show a couple of proprietary breadth indicators from Topdown Charts and an objective analysis shows a...

This post has to do with something which may seem like an oxymoron: integrity in financial prognostications. What inspired me to address this topic? Oh, that’s easy: As you can see, back on...

During Thursday’s press conference, Draghi sounded more hawkish than usually. What does this imply for the gold market?As we wrote on Friday, Draghi adopted a more optimistic tone during the...

Boise, Idaho (March 14, 2017) – By an overwhelming 56-13 margin, the Idaho House of Representatives today voted to end all Idaho taxation on precious metals, e.g. gold and silver coins and...

Gold is one of the most heavily traded commodities in the US, and as such is affected by many factors in addition to typical supply and demand fundamentals. Those factors include general economic...

Tuesday's oil prices were lower for the seventh consecutive session. Light sweet crude prices had fallen 10.3% over the past two weeks and with Tuesday's losses are off another 1.6% already this...

After Janet Yellen first hiked rates in late 2015, the precious metals market rallied in a big way in the first half of 2016. This is the GDX (NYSE:GDX) daily chart.In late 2016 the Fed hiked again,...

Gold downtrend is slowing down and seems to make a break on its way south. Yesterday's candle has closed above the blue trailing trend line (1) (2) giving a clear signal that a potential reversal...