Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Talking Points: Gold retraced after Friday crash, looks to FOMC meeting for hint Oil held losses as US rig count increased on the third week Copper traded sideways above Friday’s six-year...

CLCrude oil prices dipped further in Asia on Monday, as oversupply worries dominated the market as well as demand prospects from the U.S., as the Federal Reserve mulls an interest rate hike. Last...

Last week saw markets top out, for now, at resistance levels and it wasn’t rocket science to predict after such a strong previous two weeks.That said, there are some stocks who are holding up so...

During gold’s takedown over a week ago, silver rather surprisingly escaped relatively unscathed, a resilience that we can put down to this market already being very depressed, with its COTs...

Gold cracked support and plunged to new lows since the last update, which came as no surprise to us. So what now? We are seeing signs that a recovery rally is about to begin, but it probably...

A product, technology or energy source that is both cost-effective and bankable will scale, and this is the key to victory. The good news for photovoltaics is that nothing scales like silicon, except...

In the modern office, no one complains about someone leaving an empty coffee pot on the burner. That’s because the younger generation has risen above such petty affronts… Just...

We wrote on July 5th that markets are looking scary. Now, only 3 weeks later, the situation seems to be escalating.Let's get it straight: this is a serious deflationary bust in the making. The most...

Gold – Monday 27 July 2015Throughout the last month gold has steadily declined and fallen from above the key $1200 level back to a new five year low below $1100 earlier last week. Earlier last...

Summary: There's currently a tradeable set-up in gold. Sentiment, seasonality and the price pattern (especially the 2% intraday reversal on Friday) are all favorable. Importantly, there is a clear...

A reader pointed out to me that the ratio of the gold bugs index (HUI in ProphetCharts) versus gold (ARCA:GLD) had never been lower. I looked, and it actually had been lower back when gold was around...

Apropos of this week's title, irrespective of the -- and indeed ever-ignored-- above scoreboard valuation at $2,523/oz., the following chart is the daily price of Gold from its highest closing level...

It’s time to get back into the precious metals market. Look at the current headlines of late: Greek default hovering overhead, mystery glitch closes NYSE, Airline company ceases all flights due...

It’s occasionally useful to stand back and examine markets from a long-term perspective. So, I’ve prepared the table below showing the 15-year gains in the Dow Jones Total Market Groups...