Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Back from The Brink Could an Earthquake along the Iraq and Iranian coast be a reason why Saudi Arabia and Iran did not get into it over the weekend? A devastating 7.3 earthquake hit a mountainous...

Over the past few weeks, we have looked at the effects of falling interest rates: falling discount applied to future cash flows (and hence rising stock and bond prices), and especially falling...

SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE:GLD) – on buy signal. In a bull market, the 200ema often acts as support for pullbacks and corrections, where investors accumulate positions for the long term. iShares...

Crude’s recent price action remains uninspiring with technical indicators still very overbought.Crude oil limped into the weeks end with both Brent and WTI finishing nearly unchanged, as they...

In wrapping up last week's missive we simply wrote: "As to what we see for Gold in the new week: not much." What did we get? Not much. Not that a net change for the week of 0% is nothing, given Gold's...

Key Points: OPEC quietly admits that its Shale Oil Strategy has failed. ULCC static off Oman since 2015 offloads oil. Imagery suggests Saudi Arabia could be fudging their inventory storage...

Gold has largely been drifting sideways for the better part of a couple months now, sapping enthusiasm. Gold investment demand has stalled due to extreme stock-market euphoria. Investors aren’t...

Special Gold and Silver ReportWe are getting a strong confirmation based on an intermediate- and long-term supply and demand basis (mean reversion) that the gold and silver markets are about to break...

'Tis the season for Chocolate (cocoa) to do well, which begs the question – will it repeat its historical pattern again this year?Below looks at cocoa's seasonal pattern from...

Natural gas is trading around 3.20 in an upward sloping wedge pattern. I'll be bearish NG if we see the wedge pattern breaking down. The RSI has been diverging since the 3.14 top was made. I believe...

Will gold keep rising?The short answer is because price says so. Gold had a good start to 2017. Rising from a low of about 1125 per ounce to over 1275 in the first two months, it started the year with...

Technical resistance and overbought short-term indicators are setting off more red lights on Brent and WTI charts as we head into the week’s end.Oil traded with lots of noise overnight, but...

The oil market is in a state of high excitement.In the space of just a week or so, analysts have gone from being pretty sanguine about the possibility of price rises — giving muted credit to...

Is natural gas ready for the long-term breakout? Original post