Commodities Analysis & Opinion

The froth in Rare Earth Metals makes other bubbles look tame. Rare Earth players like MCP, AVL and REE saw run-ups in the 400% range in 2010, thanks to a shortage potential tied to Chinese export...

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...

Brent crude oil slipped to $107.61 at 7:15 GMT on Monday morning as easing geopolitical tension and increasing supply pressured prices. Many are optimistic about the future of US and Iranian...

Hedge funds cut their net long position in Brent crude oil by 10.4 percent or 19,388 contracts to 167,745 during the week ending September 24. This was the fourth-week-in-a-row that these investors...

Gold holdings in Exchange Traded Products has seen continued reductions over the past four weeks, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. This reduction has occurred despite the recent US Federal...

Is gold about to have its first positive quarter in a year? It certainly looked likely last night as the gold price hit a nine-day high, reaching $1,354 on the back of looming deadlines in the US.We...

After rising steadily throughout Friday's trading session, gold surged at the open last night, hitting a high of $1353 at the upper boundary of the down trend channel before quickly retreating back to...

FundamentalThe volatility for copper remains extremely elevated on the back of the political turmoil which is taking place on both sides of the Atlantic. Certainly, the threats by Silvio Berlusconi to...

Crude oil tanked during early Asian session due to the US debt ceiling scare, shedding more than 1.4% within the first 3 hours of trade this morning. However, the price appeared to have stabilized,...

Crude oil fell to the lowest in almost three months on as the United States is facing its first government shutdown in 17 years over a budget stalemate that would reduce demand on oil from the...