Commodities Analysis & Opinion

CLIntermediate oil prices fell sharply on Friday, as concerns over slowing demand and ample supplies combined with a rally in the dollar weighed. For the week, New York-traded oil futures lost $3.61,...

With the BBA Mortgage Approvals announcement out of the United Kingdom being the biggest announcement during the Monday session, we do not anticipate much in the way of market moving news. However, we...

Over the many years that I have been writing about the commodity futures markets, I have tried to make a point of homing in on the fact that it is the presence of high-powered speculative money flows...

What the current oil price slump means for world oil supply is starting to emerge. "Layoffs," "cutbacks," "delays," and "cancellations" are words one sees in headlines concerning the oil industry...

Five days ago silver broke out of an inverse H&S bottom that has temporarily reversed the downtrend. I measured the more conservative price objective using the higher low instead of the Swiss...

Some of you might think that Gold has already passed its first big test in 2015 by price being up better than 9% in this young year, despite the dollar's rising as well. But regular readers know such...

SPDR Gold Trust (ARCA:GLD) – on buy signal. iShares Silver Trust (ARCA:SLV) – on buy signal. Market Vectors Gold Miners (ARCA:GDX) – on buy signal. iShares TSX Global Gold...

The lower oil price will send US headline inflation into negative territory already next month. Real spending power is getting a substantial boost. Private consumption is set to post the best...

Small speculators more than doubled their net length in gold futures ahead of the ECB’s quantitative easing announcement on Thursday: This is the largest net long position in gold futures that...

China is NOT selling copper! I repeat, China is NOT selling copper! In fact, it’s buying a lot of physical copper. So why does everyone think China is selling copper lately? Well, one...

Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Crude Oil Report CFTC COT data shows speculators slightly raised oil bets while WTI crude price edged upCRUDE OIL: Futures market traders and large speculators added to...

Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Gold Report Gold positions up seven out of the last eight weeksGOLD: Large futures traders and gold speculators pushed their overall bullish bets in gold higher for a...

In recent days and weeks we noted key levels for Gold at $1250 as well as $1270-$1280. Over the past two weeks Gold easily cleared $1250 and continued to $1300. Friday it traded around $1290 and...

There was a boom in oil and gas capex during the past couple of years, particularly in the shale oil drilling space: With the recent crash in the oil price this boom has turned into a bust and there...