Commodities Analysis & Opinion

June gold settles 1230.0, down $5.80 for the week of April 22, 2016Gold prices ranged up sharply this week only to see the rallies sold into as the dollar recovered. There was some chatter that...

Silver officially entered a new bull market this week, decisively crossing the necessary +20% threshold. Speculators and investors alike are returning as awareness spreads of how radically undervalued...

Nearly 40 million ounces of paper silver were launched at the Comex yesterday in the space of seven minutes, which triggered a 92 cent waterfall in the price of silver; over 118 million ounces of...

Midwest is drier in western areas Sunday and Monday. Drier weather in central and southern areas this weekend will favor corn and soybean planting, while showers in northwestern areas should improve...

A Sloper was kind enough to offer this post about precious metals, which I appreciate!Today’s post will be chart-heavy and text-light. I just want to highlight all of the chart breakouts...

Weekly Large Trader COT Report: WTI Crude Oil WTI Crude Oil Non-Commercial Positions: Futures market traders and large oil speculators sharply raised their overall bullish bets in WTI oil futures last...

The financial system is sitting on the edge of a cliff, and an increasing number of investors are beginning to realize it. I hear more and more evidence from contacts in the financial and precious...

Russia said it will increase oil production without a deal with Saudi Arabia and other Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries members, and the U.K. has reluctantly agreed to subsidize a deal to...

It's like Halloween is arriving early this year. By that I mean it just keeps getting scarier and scarier. My guess is that every speculator on the planet is long silver/short gold or outright long...

The commodity squeeze higher continues as nearly all sectors are seeing better pricing despite the continued oversupply and less than stellar global economic performance. The shift seems to be driven...

Gold prices topped 6 weeks ago, and it appears that silver and miners terminated their very extended rallies, in an intense manner. The Fed meets Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, with an...

Bottom Line: Natural Gas is poised to either continue its existing correction that began in either December 2005 or July 2008 or begin the transition into a move up that could eventually test these...

Gold and silver have more or less confirmed they have bottomed and are ready for a multi-year rally. Their trend has not fully ‘reversed’ to the upside yet but the market breadth and...

One of our savvy accounts sent me an email early Monday morning with a terse message: “Doha: Ha, Ha!” He correctly predicted that there wouldn’t be a deal over the weekend to freeze...