Commodities Analysis & Opinion

The US Federal Reserve’s decision not to taper Qualitative Easing was no surprise to some analysts. As Patrick Montesdeoca has discussed before with Rick Rule, President of Sprott Asset...

As already explained in previous posts, industrial and precious metals have been huge underperformers this year. But it is not only 2013 that has been an average year for metals. Let's look at the...

Gold stocks continue to be universally despised, plagued by extreme bearishness. This has hammered their stock prices to epically-undervalued levels that are truly fundamentally absurd. This whole...

The price of gold continued to slip steadily during the past week and Morgan Stanley has now advised staying away from the precious metal. Although traditionally seen as a safe haven, gold's value...

What is it about gold that makes people view it differently than any other asset class, creating an almost religious fixation* on the metal? As long-term monetary insurance, you would think that it...

Futures are a zero-sum game in the sense that on the contract settlement date all the longs and shorts must net out, with the contracts either being cash settled or the longs taking physical delivery...

In the last five weeks the WTI/Brent spread has widened $5.50 on the December spread moving from approximately - $3.00 to - $8.50. WTI remains at a discount and though I think that discount shall...

Well, it was going to happen sooner or later, wasn’t it? After vilification from just about everyone, the LME will now probably face competition from a rival with the infrastructure – the...

The well respected chartist Clive Maund who is no gold bug and does his work strictly by the rules of technical analysis concludes that the current price charts for both gold and silver show classic...

Brent crude oil came down from a four week high on Friday morning after spiking on news that Republicans had offered a deal that could end the budget battle. The commodity traded at $111.54 at 5:24...

Crude: Bless those trading volumes and volatility. All I‟m doing is changing the rhetoric and keeping the numbers the same, like the Government. We‟re seeing a renaissance for the Bulls on...

That means the long-winded analysis is out. (Hallelujah!) And some carefully selected charts are in. (Amen!) So without further ado, check out these snapshots on the scariest development in the gold...

The Amplats strike has ended. After the producer “and the largest union at its South African operations reached a compromise over plans to cut as many as 3,100 jobs,” reports...

Gold traded sharply lower last night as news of a potential resolution to the "debt ceiling" in the US filtered through. Gold is still firmly entrenched in the downtrend channel that has contained the...