Commodities Analysis & Opinion

2013 has been a very unusual year thus far. Coming off of the worst drought in 55 years, the Corn Belt experienced extremely wet planting conditions which led to 8.213 million acres of U.S. farmland...

Gold was on the defensive during early trading yesterday. It received a boost from news that France is not planning to sell any gold reserves, after rumours surfaced suggesting this was an option,...

CLCrude prices fell on Monday as the U.S. appeared headed for a government shutdown at midnight, which could dampen economic growth if it lingers and crimp demand for fuel and energy. The U.S....

On to our first (complimentary) daily technical report…GLD is on a bear signal with MACD triggered down, below zero and price below a short term downtrend line and the 50 day moving...

The standard wisdom on gold is that it does well in times of economic bad news such as in the 1970s, a period of stagflation and recessions, when the yellow metal rose from $35/oz to peak at $850/oz...

Crude continues to trade below the $102.00 a barrel level as the US government began a partial shutdown on Tuesday for the first time in 17 years due to budget stalemate, threatening to slow the US...

Precious-Gold dropped on Tuesday trading amid expectations that the U.S. government shutdown will not last long, damping demand on the metal as a safe haven.Gold is currently trading around $1289.47...

Chart 1: Precious metals sector still in a technical downtrendIn recent days and weeks, I have noticed that the PMs perma bulls have thrown in the towel and some have even started shorting Gold (about...

It's time again for my weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Rounded to the penny, the average for Regular fell eight cents over the past week and...

Gold bullion isn’t getting much respect these days…and that’s perfectly fine with me.The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) says the precious metal has a risk of going below $1,000....

Corn conditions remained unchanged over the last week. Corn and soybean harvests are both behind their historical five year averages.As of September 29, 2013, 16% of the corn crop was in poor or very...

The USDA estimated corn stocks at 824 million bushels, well above even the highest of pre-report estimates. Soybean stocks were reported on the high side of expectations, mainly due to increases in...

While Washington is mired in gridlock, the High-Tech Revolution, which started in the early 1990s, is evolving into a New Industrial Revolution. Innovations produced by the IT industry are...