Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Crude Oil has been consolidating since making a high (62.58) in the early part of May. The last 5 weeks have stayed within a $6 range, with the extremes of the range occurring in the 1st week and this...

Markets began to act sloppy this week and began to break below breakout levels late in the week.I locked in all my gains Thursday and am now in an all cash position and looking for a little...

Gold remains deeply out of favor thanks to global central banks’ extreme money printing. This fueled a global stock-market levitation that has temporarily short-circuited normal market cycles,...

Today was one of those days where from a micro perspective, things didn’t go as planned. The dollar and both gold and silver fell today. Personally, this may represent a time to get long gold...

Due to the confiscation of gold by the Roosevelt Administration in 1933, there remains an undercurrent of concern among gold owners that the US government or another major government will confiscate...

As I watched the Greek drama unfold, it occurred to me that this episode represents a cautionary tale for the gold standard cheerleaders who would like to return to an era of rigid monetary policy and...

Weekly CFTC Commitment of Traders Crude Oil ReportCFTC COT data shows speculator’s oil bets rose last weekWTI Crude Oil Non-Commercial Positions: Futures market traders and large oil speculators...

Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Gold ReportGold speculative positions dipped lower last weekGOLD Non-Commercial Positions: Gold speculator and large futures traders very slightly trimmed their gold bullish...

The calm in the gold market may disappear after the U.S. jobs report.Bullion for immediate delivery slipped 0.1 percent to $1,175.68 an ounce as of 11:09 a.m. in London, and has been stuck in a...

No matter what OPEC says Friday about its production target, the outcome is sure to be more oil.Iran, Iraq and Libya said this week they plan to add millions of barrels to the market this year. Saudi...

Main scenario:Gold is trading along a downtrend.The downtrend may be expected to continue while gold is trading below resistance level 1178, which will be followed by reaching support level 1168...

Talking Points: US Dollar Finds Interim Support, Corrects Upward S&P 500 Breaks 2-Month Support to Challenge 2100 Gold, Crude Oil Break Down from Familiar Ranges US DOLLAR TECHNICAL...

Silver prices in Japan, India and the US all rose over the past month, as did gold prices in the same regions. Silver and gold prices in China, however, fell ever so slightly. These inputs, as well as...

MetalMiner’s basket of industrial metals used by the auto industry, the monthly Automotive MMI®, registered a value of 85 in June, a decrease of 2.3% from 87 in May. As the chart shows, this...