Commodities Analysis & Opinion

CLCrude prices rose on Thursday after better-than-expected U.S. retail sales data sparked demand for the growth-sensitive commodity, though soft Chinese production figures capped gains. Oil prices...

West Texas Intermediate Crude futures swung slightly between gains and losses early Friday, keeping the US benchmark ready to post its worst weekly slide in ten.Cautious sentiment is still dominating...

Precious-Gold traded near six-month highs on Friday, headed for its sixth consecutive weekly gain, on political tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine and amid of worries of economic...

Precious metals boosters will see gold’s nominal price break upward and probably get excited.  They will marshal the troops for what could one day turn out to be a full fledged tout, as if...

One of Canada's top-ranked industrial investment analysts, Tom Varesh of M Partners, tells The Energy Report where to find the best-positioned oil services companies in the oil fields of western...

 It's been awhile since I last created a post on Gold. The weekly chart above shows continuous spot future contract prices on Gold since the bull market began in 1999. I've highlighted the...

With gold hovering around the $1370 level this morning – a level which has confounded the very bearish bank analyst sector – gold has, been by far the best asset class to be invested in so...

Just when you thought the last of the big institutional banks were ready to throw in the towel on their bearish metal forecasts, yet another one has joined the ranks of the gold bears. Morgan Stanley...

Is the price of copper trying to tell us something?  Traditionally, “Dr. Copper” has been a very accurate indicator of where the global economy is heading next.  For example,...

Brent crude oil traded at $108.15 at 6:08 GMT on Thursday morning as investors looked to the crisis in Ukraine where Western officials made last ditch efforts to prevent Russia from annexing the...

Looks like a trip to the grocery store will be a more expensive endeavor in the near future as Beef, Hogs, Coffee, Grains and Milk are rapidly moving higher as of the start of this year.Blame it on...

Copper is known as the "smart metal" because it is supposed to indicate changes in the global economy. Copper has historically been used primarily for industrial purposes so it has been a good...

On March 5, 2014, we issued an updated research report on Valero Energy Corporation (VLO). Among all the independent refiners, Valero offers the most diversified refinery base with a capacity of 3.0...

Every trader has been talking about Corn (ZC_F) (CORN) over the last few weeks, and for good reason it has been on fire. And the last over the last 2 weeks Cruse Oil (CL_F) (USO) has also been...