Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Hedge funds and other money managers cut their bullish bets on Brent crude oil futures and options by 10,309 contracts during the week of March 11. The net-long exposure to gas oil was cut by one...

An intriguing article in Reuters recently examined the peculiarities of the US lead market.The closure last year of Doe Run’s Herculaneum Primary Lead smelter in Missouri not only brought to an...

Brent crude oil settled above $108 after Ukraine's Crimean peninsula voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia over the weekend. The commodity traded at $108.08 at 5:51 GMT as investors worried about the...

Gold has broken its short-term upward sloping trend line. This is the first short-term sell signal Gold has given since the $1,355 top reversed to $1,328. Gold price has been in an upward trend for...

Looking back over the past 90 days, Coffee sticks out as the clear upside winner, gaining 72%. On the flip side, Copper has had a rough 90 days, losing 11% of its value. The rally in Coffee has a few...

The NY sugar market took everyone by surprise and closed at a steep 66-point low in relation to the previous Friday, hitting 17.28 cents per pound for May/2014. The other months which reflect the...

Silver, it seems, is everywhere. The precious metal’s dual role as both an investment and industrial metal means that while it can be bought physically or in paper form by investors, it also has...

Holdings in exchange traded products (ETP) backed by physical gold rose for a third consecutive week as of last Friday, according to data supplied by Bloomberg. The weekly rise of 12.3 tons was the...

Crude Oil remained mostly stable this today even though the Crimean referendum pushed the region 1 step closer to unification with Russia. This calmness and stability is not limited to Oil, with...

Gold moved higher on Friday to close the week strongly, over 40 points higher on the week at 1382. This morning gold has tested the key long term 65 week moving average at 1391.We expect this level,...

Crude oil was little changed early Monday amid worries over supply disruptions with escalating crisis between Russia and Ukraine after the Crimean vote.The energy markets are taking a breather from...

Gold is at the highs once again, testing 1380-1400 area where we see some important Fibonacci levels that could react as resistance in this week. An updated count now shows a five wave move in wave...

Precious-Gold traded near six-month highs on Monday on political tension between Russia and the West after Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia.A referendum on Sunday showed that Crimea voted...

Gold has shot higher again over night reaching our target of 1391 and topped almost exactly here at 1392. Short term we are very overbought now so perhaps gains will be more limited today. Immediate...