Commodities Analysis & Opinion

The current themes of slowing economic activity and continued quantitative easing are very well reflected in our momentum indicator with precious metals showing positive momentum. Growth dependent...

For those who attended our recent Commodity/PROcurement EDGE conference, Stuart and I discussed 10 events that could shake up metals markets in 2014. Our colleague Taras previously revealed three of...

Gold rallied to a five-week high last week and in the process clawed back more than half of what was lost during the September to mid-October sell-off. The reasons behind the rally are well known with...

Gold was little changed early Monday, hovering around the $1,350 an ounce ahead of a fresh grind of macroeconomic data from the world's largest economy. The precious metals markets eased on last...

Crude oil swung between gains and losses as a series of US government data is due this week, including industrial production figures, while the US Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting from Tuesday...

Natural Gas outlook was positive and as expected we headed higher reaching the 200 day moving average at 3.700, but continued higher to 3.731, in a strong performance. With no clear trend we watch the...

Wheat for December saw a high for the week at 711/712 last week as predicted. On Friday we continued lower as expected, breaking 694 for the next support at 691/690. We bottomed exactly here as...

Gold has traded higher as expected and overnight we have seen a 1354 print. Still, it's overbought, although indicators continue to point higher. So, unless we see a turn in these stochastics. we...

CLCrude oil prices advanced after paring the sixth decline in seven weeks, as orders for durable goods increased the most in three months and the U.S. stock markets gained. Trading was 40 percent...

Once again our microphones have picked up some prudent Gold-oriented chatter, in this instance a rather contested conversation from a cambio somewhere in Switzerland's canton of Ticino:"One Swiss...

Chart 1: Agricultural commodities like Corn are extremely oversoldHere is an interesting fact: Corn spot price currently finds itself at an extremely oversold level. Over the last 20 years or so, Corn...