Commodity Analysis & Comment

The weather gods must be conspiring to keep the bulls in natural gas happy. Just as the surprising heat that stayed on after the peak of summer, requiring most American households to keep the...

Copper prices have been trading aimlessly for the past few weeks. However, a broader view reveals that the metal may have been forming an H&S bottom over the last three months. This development is...

With roiling geopolitical tensions, a looming deadline for Iranian sanctions, and general production concerns, there is no shortage of potential catalysts that can be used to blame the recent...

Its dispirited performance on the futures market is barely in sync with its sharp taste on the breakfast table. Still, there might be good news for those with positive bets on orange juice;...

With US midterm elections are just around the corner, the US president's agenda is under huge pressure: it is extremely rare that the president and the Congress are from the same party! The idea of...

Whether it’s used for manufacturing foil for sandwich wrappers or in the production of aircraft bodies, it’s the one metal business can’t do without. In fact, aluminum is such a...

Like a tired recording, we've recently been hearing this narrative day in and day out: “Oil prices are up 40 percent from a year ago, and US sanctions on Iran are largely to...

It may have finally happened—gold appears to have bottomed out. Lately, the precious metal's status as a safe haven has been somewhat diminished, a result of rising interest rates and the...

After a sharp-two day decline, crude oil prices were firmer first thing Friday. This coincided with equity indices which were likewise firmer after a vicious two-day sell-off. Thus, one reason behind...

The simple answer to the question in the headline is: No one knows. There is probably as big a constituency that thinks $3 per million British thermal units is the minimum price for natural gas from...

Risk remains out of favour following yesterday’s big drop in global stock markets. In FX markets, the US dollar has fallen further thanks to slightly lower US bond yields after President Donald...

Since August, the price of the international oil benchmark, Brent, has risen about 25%. Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that in the past month there has been a doubling in the...

It’s one of the most toxic metals known to man. And investors who took positive bets on lead this year are now feeling its poisonous effects on their portfolios. Down 26 percent this year on...

“When pigs fly” is one of those perfect idioms to describe the impossible. It’s probably what some livestock traders would have thought had they heard this past summer that US hog...