Commodity Analysis & Comment

There may still be a few weeks left to 2018, but with business winding down for the year, all eyes are now on 2019. Here are three key issues that will impact oil prices in the first few months of the...

The US-China trade truce has come a little too late for global metals markets, which are set for one of their worst outings ever in 2018. In a rare phenomenon, the futures of nearly every traded base...

Though oil prices jumped 4 percent right after OPEC and friends announced last Friday that they would reduce production by 1.2 million barrels a day starting January 2019, skeptical markets gave back...

Three straight months of rallies and all traders of soybeans futures have are hopes that China will go back to buying massive amounts of the US-grown product. That's based on reports the two economic...

Oil market participants have now had a few days to digest the decision from the OPEC+ to cut crude supply by 1.2 million barrels per day. Both major oil contracts are below the levels they were...

It was a low-key speech delivered by a crop academic in Texas, the second smallest wheat growing state in the US. But in outlining his case for wheat in 2019, Texas A&M agricultural economist Mark...

When Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih leaves Vienna on Friday, he may be beset by two bigger worries than the current oil price crisis. The first is that Russia, rather than Riyadh, has become...

The curse of shale is its gift of cheap oil to the world, so much that few remember the spectacular blow-up of US drillers during the crude price crash of two years ago. Hedge funds, of course, can...

Trading in positive territory since the beginning of December and following a drop of 22% in November, oil prices appear on the verge of a comeback, as OPEC’s meeting in Vienna kicks off. The...

Oil ministers are converging in Vienna, Austria today for the biannual OPEC and OPEC+ meetings. The oil-exporting countries are expected to discuss a potential cut in production for the coming year....

Gold is back in vogue. Financial networks attributed gold’s recent jump mostly to the dollar's weakness, which was justified by higher hopes of a trade resolution between China and the US. But...

US President Donald Trump’s actions with China at the G20 may have just strengthened Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s resolve on what to do at this week’s OPEC meeting:...

Promises, and more promises: the G20 wrapped on Saturday with US President Donald Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping agreeing to agree, at a later date, on a US-China trade pact that would instantly...

Gold rallied as the dollar and yields both sold off yesterday on the back of the surprisingly less hawkish comments from the Federal Reserve Chairman. The metal has started today’s session...