Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Lumber, a leading indicator of domestic and global construction, implies future weakness not only US home construction but also the global economy. The general observation of mark down across the...

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

Weekly Large Trader COT Report: Gold Gold speculative positions edged up last week to +220,857 contracts GOLD Non-Commercial Positions: Gold speculator and large futures traders continued to increase...

Poor US Advance GDP results of 0.5% q/q and a build in Unemployment Claims to 257K has gotten the Gold Bulls stirred up again. Unfortunately for them, the best they can hope for is the re-widening of...

As is always the case at these major turning points, the usual analysts are going to get it wrong again. The US dollar is finishing an intermediate cycle decline, not starting one.Stocks are dropping...

Regression to the mean. There is one universal law in this business and it never never gets broken. Price always regresses to the mean. Take A look at the Gold/Silver Index (XAU), below.This one is...

Gold is in the final phase of the baby bull rally. This is the stage that causes maximum pain for shorts that were unable to recognize that the bear market is over, or tried to sell short (I warned...

Global steel prices have rallied close to 40% since early March, which has led to the gap between aluminium and steel prices closing.The base metal and steel market is finding support in the...

Gold inclined sharply, touching 1281.00 resistance, which stopped the previous bullish attempts. The bullishness is available today, supported by the positivity on ADX and RSI trading above 50.00. We...

Oil inclined strongly, approaching 161.8% at 46.90, which is a very strong resistance.A break above 46.90 will expose 48.00-48.10 and stability above 1.4550 is required to keep the bullishness...

The trigger to the recent increases in steel prices may have been a report by the World Steel Association that reasoned in its short-demand demand report that the increasing output and capacity...

Bob Moriarty of 321Gold calls out the work of two men who got it right on gold and silver.We do our very best to present all possible reasonable alternatives in the resource space. I don't have to...

Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger expounds on how Federal Reserve policy affects the commodities markets, and expresses cautious optimism about how that policy will play out in gold...

Tom Cloud provides a new precious metals update and explains more details of his business products and services. In future updates, Tom will be sharing more information about the retail business and...