Commodities Analysis & Opinion

We can’t count how many articles we saw yesterday, bemoaning gold going down: "The price action is bad for gold" (whatever that means). "China underreported their gold holdings." "No, China...

Old Chinese proverb: when a giant in a race with another falters, the other, without a doubt, wins.Actually, I made that up. Ignore it. Still, when China’s economy started showing signs of a...

Talking PointsThe PowerShares DB Commodity Tracking (ARCA:DBC) hit a series’ low Monday as S&P 500 stood just off a record Gold suffered its biggest jolt since December 1 on a sharp drop to...

56,859 contracts represents over 284 million ounces of silver in a market with a total of just under 1 billion ounces in open contracts (open interest of 197,092) and a combined warehouse...

CLCrude Oil extended its recent downturn on Monday as the dollar surged to multi-month highs, amid continuing concerns of oversupply in global energy markets. On Monday, the United Nations Security...

Traders are completely focused on commodities which are plugging sharply. The recent rout in the gold price has many investors sell their stake in shining metal and the Gold ETF has experienced a...

Oil’s oversized reaction to negative news from Greece and China on Monday should really have come as no surprise with the value of 20/20 hindsight. I have been writing for some time now that the...

In the last month or so a kind of stealth move has been taking place in an unlikely energy commodity.Natural gas, the poster child for overproduction last year as energy prices collapsed seems to have...

Gold has fallen to fresh five year lows. There's been a lot of finger pointing at the cause of the slide. Here are some of the more popular reasons for the sell-off.Interest Rates: The threat of the...

Drastic weather improvements over the past week stabilized crop conditions as warm and dry weather have allowed fields an opportunity to dry for the first time in almost two months. Crop maturity for...

Metals are now in the completely irrational phase of the intermediate decline. The Gold / Philadelphia Gold/Silver ratio is now at 23. We are about to see the mother of all bear market rallies

During the Monday session, the Asians witnessed a complete breakdown in the gold markets. While those of us in North America slept, many of the retail stops below the $1130 level had been run into the...

It could take many months — or even years — for the precious metals to form a bottomI am on record as stating my opinion that the current down thrust in Gold, Silver and Platinum is likely...

Can we really be halfway through the year? That’s what my calendar tells me, which means it’s time for the 2015 commodities halftime report.The periodic table of commodity returns,...