Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Gold futures jumped almost 2% on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday, breaking above the key $1,200-per-ounce level, as traders used a weaker dollar Tuesday as an excuse...

When it comes to "financial train wrecks" in 2014, the TR Commodity Index has had one. The index has lost 20% of its value since the first of May. I shared with members in May that billions of free...

Gold is stable on Wednesday, with a spot price of $1199.55 per ounce in the European session. In the US, today’s key event is Unemployment Claims, which will be released ahead of its usual...

The federal budget of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will not be affected by falling oil prices, an undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance said on Monday. Younis Al Khouri said that the...

Crude oil is still below 55.60 forcing us to keep our bearish expectations that is getting good and constant support from Linear Regression Indicators, waiting for our next targets 52.10 then 51.00. A...

The metal moved back above 23.6% correction at 16.00 and stabilizing above it is positive. Stability above 23.6% correction is accompanied now by trading above the key resistance of the downside move...

Fundamentals Crude oil is having another choppy session today and traders have booked their profit from yesterday’s gain. The bounce which we had yesterday was purely based on speculation and we...

Fundamentals Greece's situation is the main factor behind the upward move for gold and traders want to hedge their risk which they have on their books. Next year is going to be extremely choppy, so I...

No one would disagree that the aluminum market is finally in deficit.Demand has remained robust and production, at least in the real world outside of China, has continued to be constrained. The World...

Industrial metals have remained in bearish territory since 2011 and indeed have been the weakest-performing commodity group. However, since the second half of the year, they have shown relative...

Even though a relatively small portion of our intended metal buying audience purchases gold, silver, platinumor palladium for manufacturing, these precious metals love to shine their way through our...

Another week - another CFTC report - more of the same, namely the large speculative category, hedge funds and other reportable traders, continue their love affair with crude oil. This, in spite of the...

Based upon most of the patterns I am tracking on the metals charts, it is not highly likely that the long-term lows have yet been seen in the metals and most mining stocks. That being said, I am still...

The powerful disinflationary trend that has broadly benefitted equities at the expense of commodities - and which was set in motion in early Q2 2011 with a major low in the U.S. dollar, has been...