Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Business news is full of doom and gloom for the metals sector, but for consumers it really couldn’t be better.Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is reported in a recent article as saying recent price gains...

Weekly Large Trader COT Report: WTI Crude Oil CFTC COT data shows speculator’s oil bets jumped last week WTI Crude Oil Non-Commercial Positions: Futures market traders and large oil speculators...

Weekly Large Trader COT Report: Gold Gold speculative positions edged up last week to +266,288 contracts GOLD Non-Commercial Positions: Gold speculator and large futures traders slightly edged their...

The world's largest exporter of crude oil, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, recently announced a plan for its post-oil future. If a country almost synonymous with the oil economy can see the need for such...

During the years 2012 through 2015, the Gold Forces were essentially on wholesale retreat from much higher zones such as "The Northern Front" (1750-1800) and "on maneuvers..." (1579-1750), prior to...

Gold Price Forecast 2016:The gold price in South African rand (ZAR) is often a leading indicator for a USD gold price rally, as well as a signal for major trouble in the financial markets. A good...

Oil prices have had a volatile start to the year. They collapsed 25% to USD28/barrel in the first 20 days of 2016, but then rebounded strongly and are now up 33% year to date at USD49/b. Our analysis...

The world’s elite silver miners just finished reporting their operating results from 2016’s first quarter, and they were impressive. This industry continued to drive its costs lower even...

Back in mid-April the chart of the week asked if commodities had made a bottom. The answer was maybe in that the short and intermediate term had turned positive but the long term monthly chart had yet...

Nuclear energy gets a bad rep. But is it justified? When you ask most folks their opinion on nuclear, they’ll mention Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima Daiichi. The memories of these...

Looking at the upcoming May 23 trading session, gold markets could be the place to be. In this CFD chart, you can see that there are several things happening at one point in time that makes this a...

This time, I'm going to change up the weekend newsletter and focus on the 8-year cycle. I compiled a brief list of arguments supporting its early arrival and separate evidence opposing it.I originally...

This article aims to provide price forecasts for commodity futures for May 27, 2016.The table below shows the weekly commodity futures prices in US dollars over the period from April 22, 2016 to May...

While virtually every commodity known to man has been plunging over the past 18 months there has been one very notable exception.Lithium carbonate prices rose 47% in the first quarter of 2016 compared...