Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Brent crude lost momentum with the start of the week, heading to lowest in more than two years below $97 on Monday. The reason behind today`s lackluster performance was a raft of weak economic data...

Gold rebounded from near 8-month low on Monday as the low price encouraged some buying, ahead of this week’s Fed policy meeting.Last week, gold fell for a second straight week as the strong...

LONG TERM TREND: BEARISHINTERMEDIATE TERM TREND: NEUTRAL/BEARISHSHORT TERM TREND: BEARISHVERY SHORT TERM TREND: BEARISHGold continued to fall steadily last week after breaking down through the lower...

After achieving a short-lived upside correction, oil has moved again to the downside after being resisted at SMA20 as seen on the provided daily chart. MACD has turned bearish, while RSI 14 is neutral...

In line with our previous technical comments on the metal, prices have collapsed reaching our main technical objective for the bearish scenario at 18.60 as seen on the provided daily chart. We have...

The metal dropped touching levels around 1226.60 with the beginning of the week, which represent a significant technical target showing above represented in 113% correction. The referred to level is...

Crude OilCrude Oil futures revisited levels close to multi-month lows on Friday, as ample global supplies and concerns about a slowdown in demand continued to weigh. The U.S. Energy Information...

Oil markets are driven by supply, demand and risk and these have all turned against oil. The latter has subsided recently with the tensions in eastern Ukraine. An increase in supply and a decrease in...

This past week I have had to cut back on my publishing due to my travels to the Precious Metals Summit where I had back to back meetings with some of the top fund managers, investors and over 30 of...

Probably the most important thing you need to know about the 1972 book entitled Limits to Growth is that it makes no predictions. Rather, the much maligned study provides scenarios for thinking about...

Solar energy has garnered quite a buzz lately as China is said to beef up its solar installation this year. Fundamentally, many energy forecast scenarios by numerous agencies suggest while...

When back in 1851 Stephen Foster penned into the song "The Old Folks at Home" the lyric "Way down upon the Swanee River", 'tis doubtful he was clairvoyantly discerning the disturbing market event of...

Gold has fallen sharply over the last few weeks, however it found no support from the medium term support level at $1240 and continued lower to finish out last week.  It has now reached an eight...

The following chart of the CRB Index sums up what has been a very challenging past few months for commodities: It is hard to say anything positive about the short term prospects for...