Commodities Analysis & Opinion

It may be time for the Oil Servicing names to take the lead and drive higher against oil itself.When I look at the weekly chart (below) of the ratio of the two ETF’s that measure the Servicers,...

Should Industrial Metals Buyers Worry About This?Surely, it is an internal Chinese matter; if a few Western banks have got themselves caught up in it and get burned as the clients default, the...

West Texas crude oil prices are near their best levels of the year. The front month futures contract is near $104.50 a barrel. The high, thus far, this year was set in early March near $105.20 a...

Platinum is testing the upper end of an ascending triangle for the 3rd or 5th time, depending on how you want to count it. The volume in the last 5 days has been impressive, a cluster of high volume...

Gold firmed to another two-week high, amid heightened risk aversion, driven by the World Bank’s downgrade of global growth prospects for 2014. Dollar strength continues to limit the...

West Texas Crude Oil prices are near their best levels of the year. The front month futures contract is near $104.50 a barrel. The high, thus far, this year was set in early March near $105.20 a...

Gold traded near its highest level in two weeks on Wednesday as the drop to a four-month low enhanced some physical demand for the metal.The metal rose after finding support at the $1240 level, and is...

Gold and crude prices traded in a narrow range for a second day with little news for investors to trade on and the overall volatility of the market along with this lack of data creating a neutral...

BackgroundInvestors are disillusioned by the inability of silver prices to rise to higher ground as silver enters its 4th year of looking anything but sparkling. As a silver bug I think that we...

Even as demand rises steadily, the world's largest non-Chinese tungsten mine will be exhausted by next year. So investors should be lining up to fund new mines, right? Not a bit of it, says analyst...

Industrial purchasing and low prices have helped silver regain some ground this week. In perfectly supply side economics, the answer to silver's low price was its low price as industrial consumers...

Copper dropped to a one-month low on Tuesday as an investigation into metal financing in China prompted concern that a crackdown could hit trade in the metal. It continues to fall in morning trading...

The spot gold and silver price rebounded overnight with the recent announcement from European Central Bank President Mario Draghi to bring deposit rates into the negative territory. The ECB is cutting...

Intraday timeframe remains bullish, but the plan for gold is to seek bearish setups around $1268 level on D1.