Commodities Analysis & Opinion

A brief note on global oil supply/demand balance. May’s Oil Market Report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows demand stable to rising, and supply moving down. The report noted (we...

Silver has been relatively volatile over the past few weeks as the metal has reacted to a range of rhetoric from the Fed on interest rate hikes. However, despite the recent pullback from the high at...

The look and feel to oil is starting to become problematic. Listen, I won't touch this thing as a short setup. I just won't. I've tried a few times a long the way, when things started to get queasy...

It must be a gold bull market because…Gold analysts (code for gold obsessives; analysts cover asset markets, including gold), who for years pumped people to be bullish despite an obvious bear...

July crude oil made a new high during the night session for Thursday, June 9, 2016 reaching 51.67 before a dark Mario Draghi speech on the European economy sent the US dollar higher and motivated...

Miners have broken to new highs, and some indicators are already in overbought territory. It’s hard for me to believe that gold miners are already overbought just two weeks into a new...

A couple of days ago, Chris had suggested that you start buying gold above the $1250 level. Since then, we have busted above that level quite significantly, and it now looks like our gold forecast...

At yesterday's high of $51.67, Oil was up 98% from its Feb low, amid healthy, very overbought conditions that leave Crude vulnerable to a correction at any time. By contrast, yesterday's positive...

It’s not just gold and silver that appear to be starting new cyclical bull trends -- it’s commodities across the board. Could this be the start of another 2009-11-type run? The evidence is...

Most market experts and traders solely focus on gold in USD terms and hence since early 2013, we have been repeatedly hearing bearish views on gold.What most traders/investors, market experts, finance...

The psychology of people involved in the stock market never ceases to amaze me. On February 11, 2016, crude oil traded as low as $26 a barrel, but people in the market were terrified to buy it at that...

As Table 1 indicates, prices of the world’s leading energy sources fell precipitously in 2015 and 2016. Recently, they have rebounded a bit but are still 50% less than what they averaged during...

Reputed investment bank Societe Generale (PA:SOGN) revised up the projected price for palladium in 2016 from $550 to $575 per ounce and in 2017 from $600 to $700. Previously the British financial...

Oil HighOil futures surged to new highs on the year after a drop in U.S. oil supply and a huge spike in trading volume. The crude oil price overlooked the fact that U.S. oil production actually...