Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Folks, prepare to get schooled on how bull markets work.The Philadelphia Gold/Silver index.

Fund rebalancing in wheat over deteriorating crop concerns in key hard red winter wheat states sent wheat futures to new multi week highs this week. Wheat's gains come on fears of winterkill and...

Last week was another short week, due to the New Year holiday. We look forward to getting back to our regularly scheduled market action.The prices of both metals moved up again last week. Something...

Whenever I write about gold-market manipulation in an effort to debunk the story that gold has been subject to a long-term price suppression scheme I am always careful to point out that ALL markets,...

Forex News and EventsThe week ahead in the FX market GBP: the pound was under renewed pressure on Monday as Theresa May suggested she is willing to go for a full Brexit rather than trying to maintain...

Gold hit support at 1171/70 and bottomed exactly here. We have recovered to only minor resistance at 1175/76 but above here allows a retest of important resistance at 1180/82. Try shorts with stops...

It looks as if European Union tariffs on Chinese solar materials will last a little longer.In a presentation of the preliminary results of its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into the...

As any good rare earths buyer knows, China produces more than 85% of the global supply of rare earths and the country is also the largest consumer.What if China was to become a net rare earths...

In general, the supply-demand balance should be supportive for commodity prices in 2017.Easy monetary policy and rising fiscal spending on infrastructure and defence should lift demand, while OPEC,...

'Course, a year ago, gold perfectly timed its clutch bite in getting off the line to swiftly shift up through the gearbox toward posting a net gain of 4.5% through the first four trading days of...

For 2016 gold closed at $1,151.70 after opening the year at $1,060.50 ($9,120 range). The low in 2016 was $1,061.50 seen the week of January 4 and the high $1,377.50 was seen the week of July 4...

I wasn’t going to write anything until next week, but reporting on the annual performance for gold and silver in the first week of the year is appropriate and timely.Publishing the following...

WTI Crude Oil Non-Commercial Positions: Large speculators and traders decreased their bullish net positions in the WTI crude oil futures markets last week following five straight weeks of gains,...

Gold Non-Commercial Positions: Large speculators and traders continued to reduce their bullish net positions in the gold futures markets last week for an eighth consecutive week, according to the...