Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Gold analysts are the most bullish in a year on speculation that investors are reducing near-record bearish bets after the biggest plunge in prices since 1981.Fifteen analysts surveyed by Bloomberg...

Last week when I laid out seven misconceptions about energy shared by the public and policymakers, the pushback I received had little to do with the actual data I used to demonstrate my point. This is...

Despite suffering the worst annual decline since '81, 2014 turned out to be extremely bullish for Gold, at least for now that is. Prices started shooting up out of the blue on the first day of 2014...

In this report I would like to take an indepth look at gold which is showing a potential small double bottom. There is also a larger double bottom or part of a bigger consolidation pattern that also...

Silver is poised for a massive recovery upleg in 2014, a mean reversion from last year’s dismal action. The main driver of silver’s initial strength will be American futures speculators...

The solar photovoltaic industry boom-bust sequence, or cycle, has a special role for many countries and especially China, Germany and Spain who are, or were all serial over-producers of PV modules, as...

This is the long horizon 4x2 P&F chart of Light Crude Oil, the third chart from a series of the long-term charts of different asset classes with projected price targets.Oil has been traded in the...

The chart for USO (U.S. Oil Fund) has been confusing for some time.Most recently USO rallied sharply from its November low, only to drop sharply from its December high, taking back nearly all of the...

As of this post coffee prices are higher by 4.44% with prices approaching previous resistance just below the 50-day MA (light blue line) that was challenged last week. Prices appear to be on the rise...

As the saying goes; “History often repeats, but is never exactly the same.” The same can be said for asset classes, if one understands their long term cycles. Let’s examine Gold.From...

After a 4th failed attempt to break convincingly above the 112 level and the most bearish single day in over 6 months we have to ask ourselves where the next logical area of support may be...Below the...

In early November we turned bearish on the precious metals with the expectation that the sector was about to begin a final plunge that would lead to a V shaped bottom. In our last editorial, we...

OUTLOOKCrude Oil Expectations of an improving economy and bullish supply data have strengthened oil prices to around $100 per barrel. Crude’s recent run has been spurred by the Federal...

In 2014, profound changes in the US steel sector are expected and along with them, significant consequences as well.Federal monetary policy, sluggish economic recovery and lack of cohesion between the...