Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Weekly Large Trader COT Report: Gold Gold speculative positions rose up last week to +315,963 contracts GOLD Non-Commercial Positions: Gold speculator and large futures traders continued to boost...

...in Australian dollar terms.The AUD-denominated gold price (gold/AUD) made a correction low in April of 2013, spent about 18 months forming a base and then resumed its long-term bull market in...

In a historic referendum, Britain voted to leave the European Union. We covered this topic in our Gold News Monitors a few times, however it is worth analyzing in more detail, as the Brexit vote...

Jason Zweig, who a year ago called gold a “pet rock” is doubling down. He reiterates his belief, albeit a misguided one, that gold is a pet rock and justifies it with the usual anti gold...

This chart looks at the iShares Silver ETF (NYSE:SLV) over the past 7-years. Since 2011, SLV has remained inside of a well defined falling channel. For the first time in years, SLV is breaking above...

Gold Continues to Mimic The 1970s Ask and ye shall receive… we promised we would update the comparison chart we last showed in late November in an article that kind of insinuated that it might...

Agriculture has been a sector long ignored by investors.So much so, in fact, that the last time the largest ETF in the sector saw investor inflows, was way back in 2009. But now, in 2016, that same...

The API set the expectations bar high for today`s EIA Report, and the Gasoline numbers came in well below the API numbers from last night.Gasoline is what shorts have been concentrating on in the year...

Under certain circumstances, seemingly decent human beings are capable of horrific things.So it is with Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who parlayed his sound money bona fides into the...

Crude oil is at a crossroads. After a mildly disappointing Inventory Report, prices reacted disproportionately to the downside, giving back nearly all of Wednesday's rally from $45.92 to Thursday...

This article aims to provide forecasts for commodity prices (world bank’s Pink Sheets) for July 2016. The Pink Sheet is a monthly statistical report on prices of major agricultural commodities:...

I wanted to write a quick update addressing the Holiday price spike we saw in silver prices. Monday trading registered light volume and Holiday trickery in the silver markets.This is often an attempt...

European Central Bank Minutes TodayWe got through the FED minutes and now it is time for the ECB minutes to shine. My question is, “what is the next crisis that looms?” Also on tap today...

For years this country bemoaned being dependent on Middle Eastern oil. We learned of the real risk to our national security after the Arab Oil Embargo and swore that someday we would free ourselves...