Commodities Analysis & Opinion

CLCrude oil rallied over 1% on Tuesday, recovering from the previous session's sharp drop but the commodity remained vulnerable as comments by Saudi Arabia Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi continued to...

The ability of oil exporters to trigger a short-term collapse in price does not automatically translate into an ability to control the financial conflagration such a crash ignites.My detector went off...

In the last couple of months, the sharp reversion in oil prices has certainly caught the world’s attention. While the majority of economists and analysts continue to expect incorrectly that...

Well, not a merry Christmas for Gold buyers just yet. We have said in our TMTF forecast service to watch 1190 as KEY support and 1241 would also need to be taken out on a closing basis before we could...

Gold is showing little movement on Tuesday, as the spot price stands at $1177.61 per ounce. On the release front, there are a host of releases ahead of the Christmas holiday. There are four key events...

The oil minister of Saudi Arabia Ali Al-Naimi said on Monday that the kingdom will not cut its output, and is even ready to increase market share if new customers emerged to meet their demands....

Crude oil dropped below 55.60 yesterday, reactivating the medium-term downside move, despite positive attempts to rise in the past two session. The bearish mode is expected to be on for the coming...

Silver price declined and stabilized below the down wave main resistance level once more. Trading below 16.00 will considered negative; although the price did not confirm breaching 15.65 support...

It's time again for my weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Rounded to the penny Regular dropped 15 cents and Premium 14 cents. Regular is now at its...

CLOil closed up as much as 5 percent on Friday, its biggest gain in over two years, as some traders took profits on short positions after prices this week hit their lowest since 2009. A sharp bout of...

In a normal economic times falling energy costs would be considered unadulterated good news. The facts are simple. No one buys a barrel of oil to display above the mantle. No one derives happiness...

In a larger sense, the Fed is already intervening in the oil sector via its zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) and its unlimited liquidity for financial speculation.The problem with financializing a...

Oil has formed a potential triangle (orange on chart).The price channels that contained oil’s crash suggest that it will break out downward, but into the first wave of a bottoming formation (for...

Natural gas has been forming a megaphone (blue on chart) since early 2012. NG has broken out downwards from that megaphone the past couple of days.As that megaphone formed within a larger megaphone...