Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Gold eased in a tight range early Friday, but was set to post its first weekly slide in three with expectations the Federal Reserve will keep its stimulus program on course through early next year.The...

Crude oil slightly recovered some losses on Friday after falling near a four-month low the previous session as China’s manufacturing activity expanded at its fastest pace in 18 months,...

WTI crude oil has returned to near four-month lows on a combination of a continued rise in domestic crude inventories together with the commodity-negative impact of the recovering dollar. We take a...

Chen Lin, author of What is Chen Buying? What Is Chen Selling?, goes wherever he sees returns. In the summer, he bought mining stocks when the yellow metal hit $1,200 per ounce. Now, he's trading in...

Following sharp losses yesterday the gold price, thanks to profit-taking and strong US economic data, is trading at two-week lows this morning.In October the pace of business activity in the U.S....

A few years ago, I had an ah-ha moment when it comes to what we as humans would need to do to live in a sustainable manner. It is very easy. All we have to do is leave our homes, take off all of our...

Wheat for December broke the 100 day moving average at 674/673 as predicted for a move towards 666/665. We bottomed almost exactly here at 667 as expected. We are oversold short term and on the daily...

After its Halloween-eve meeting, the Fed told the market that the punch bowl will remain filled to the brim for some time to come. However, it wasn’t completely pleasing to a market that has...

In keeping with the mood of Halloween, the monsters came out early this morning to scare the living Hades out of the gold and silver market. We had the typical FOMC precious metal smash-down today to...

Brent crude oil was poised to post its largest weekly gain in two months as positive Chinese data and disruptions in Libya buoyed the commodity's prices. Brent traded at $109.12 at 5:13 GMT on Friday...

World silver spot prices are determined by a once sacred, but now inept, process. While the evolution of futures contract for the modern age helped facilitate the industrial revolution, it has now...

This last week saw continued volatility in the precious metals markets, though both gold and silver needed to take a rest after having moved roughly 7% and 10% higher respectively since the beginning...

Talk about a turnaround. Last year the Red Soxs' record in the regular season was 69 wins and 93 losses...this year we all know how the season ended... last evening the Red Sox won the World Series in...

There is not much to cheer the metals markets this year. Prices have broadly been in decline since the spring; and a wide – if not total –agreement that the commodities super-cycle has...