Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Stock were choppy for much of the week with heavy hitting companies reporting poor numbers for the most part while a few did knock it out of the park but in the end they weren’t enough to hold...

The silver miners showed impressive fundamental strength during 2015’s grim fourth quarter. That was the worst silver suffered in many years, a perfect-storm trough with major secular lows...

June Gold settles 1290.5; up $60.50 for the week of April 29, 2016Both the gold and silver markets continued their upward surge this week with both markets posting their best gains and new 2016 highs...

Heavy rains and thinking of late plantings pushing more bean acres into seeded acres as projections of 80 million acres planted of beans versus the record of 80.3 abound. Yet traders keep talking...

Last week, the beginning of April 18th, 2016, silver was on fire, rising sharply and forcing ‘Wall Street’ to take note of its move, though, many investors believe that gold and silver are...

The US Energy Information Administration’s Monthly Energy review for the month of April confirms that the oil consumption factors are not very positive, while the supply factors are now more...

iShares Silver (NYSE:SLV) – on buy signal. As anticipated, silver is now on a major buy signal, ending the sell signal form 2011. Speculation once again is at levels of previous...

Currently skepticism toward the ongoing rally in the precious metals sector is rampant. A lot of it based on shamelessly presented analysis of the COT data. But the COT data analysts have been wrong...

Weekly Large Trader COT Report: WTI Crude Oil CFTC COT data shows speculator’s nudged oil bets higher last week WTI Crude Oil Non-Commercial Positions: Futures market traders and large oil...

Weekly Large Trader COT Report: Gold Gold speculative positions edged up last week to +220,857 contracts GOLD Non-Commercial Positions: Gold speculator and large futures traders continued to increase...

Poor US Advance GDP results of 0.5% q/q and a build in Unemployment Claims to 257K has gotten the Gold Bulls stirred up again. Unfortunately for them, the best they can hope for is the re-widening of...

As is always the case at these major turning points, the usual analysts are going to get it wrong again. The US dollar is finishing an intermediate cycle decline, not starting one.Stocks are dropping...

Regression to the mean. There is one universal law in this business and it never never gets broken. Price always regresses to the mean. Take A look at the Gold/Silver Index (XAU), below.This one is...

Brent crude price in euros is risingOil prices are rebounding from a multi-year low on prospects of global market rebalancing, while the EUR/USD is correcting upward after the European Central...