Commodities Analysis & Opinion

It's time again for our weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The price of Regular and Premium are both down eight cents from last week. According to...

A person often reads that low oil prices–for example, $30 per barrel oil prices–will stimulate the economy, and the economy will soon bounce back. What is wrong with this story? A lot of...

If you want to know about the past, a good place to start is by looking at GDP. It tells you the dollar value of a country or region’s goods and services over a specific time period. But...

It wasn’t that long ago that I thought precious metals and miners might represent the only decent bullish opportunity of 2016. Well, I kind of gave up on that prospect early last week and I...

Fantasy #1:My name is John Q. Public. I live a good life, make lots of money (never mind how) and have debts such as a mortgage on a great house - $375,000, a Cessna - $150,000 (my air force), and a...

One of the oldest, coldest and cruelest adages in investing states that the time to buy is when “there is blood in the streets.” It occurred to me today that we may be getting close to...

As the third trading week of 2016 gets underway, gold continues to trade with great stability, regardless of whether global economic news appears to be good or bad. This is the hourly bars gold...

CapitulateIs the oil market finally getting ready to capitulate? Oil has created global market turmoil as the global oversupply was used as an indicator that the global economy is starting to fall...

Oil attempts to inch higher, trading around 161.8% Fibonacci at 29.60. Stability below this level keeps the bearishness valid, while RSI needs some kind of relief. Hence, we will be neutral today...

Silver is starting to "crawl" along the 50 day moving average. When this breaks it should rally violently up to the 200 DMA.

The second week of 2016 was hardly more forgiving for the energy markets than the first, with WTI and Brent crude both falling by about 10% to finish the week under $30/bbl. We have not seen prices...

Last time around it was subprime mortgages, but this time it is oil that is playing a starring role in a global financial crisis. Since the start of 2015, 42 North American oil companies have filed...

There’s a lot right with John Hathaway’s recent article titled “An ‘Acute Shortage’ in Gold Can Boost Prices“. There’s also a lot wrong with it, beginning...

The persistent downward trend for industrial base metal is still in play and the downward skew is very much dependent on the stagnant growth in China. For traders, tomorrow’s Chinese Q4 GDP data...