Commodity Analysis & Opinion

This article was written exclusively for Investing.com Prices rise to an almost six-year high The demand side of the equation favors wheat and other agricultural products Each year is a...

Once bitten, twice shy is the saying. In gold’s case, it appears that once pricked, it’s twice as strong.A week ago, gold was on the mat, knocked out by Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine...

An early rise in oil and gold prices for the week presents a tricky proposition for investors as hopes over vaccines and therapeutics face off with potential stay-at-home orders amid ramping COVID-19...

As daily record highs in US coronavirus cases bring us closer to the grim prospects of Lockdown 2.0, products, services and markets best equipped for the ordeal will thrive. Aside from home gym, video...

Food security is back on the agenda in 2020. Flooding in China and elsewhere in Asia, a plague of locusts across East Africa and the Middle East and finally COVID-19 induced precautionary stockpiling...

Monday’s news that Pfizer's (NYSE:PFE) coronavirus vaccine may be 90% effective boosted stocks across much of the market. Travel-related businesses saw the most gains, and oil companies also saw...

On Monday, gold registered its biggest move in more than seven years—it dropped a whopping 5%. In just one session the precious metal toppled from a three-week high to a four-month low.The...

President-elect Joseph Biden summed it up correctly in his first coronavirus status update on Monday. “It is important to understand that the battle against COVID-19 is still months away,”...

Hope and fear—gold and oil take their cue from diverging drivers this week, as the incoming Joe Biden presidency spells different outcomes for the two most active markets in commodities.A relief...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.comCould we possibly also see a new record high in the not-too-distant future?Since peaking in early August, gold has been stuck inside an ugly...

Those who ignore the intersection of business and politics, “risk finding themselves on the wrong side of history,” Scott McDonald, CEO at Oliver Wyman, warned in the Harvard Business...

From a near 2-year high of almost $3.40, natural gas prices lost 10% in a flash—during just three days this week. For a commodity so notorious for its volatility that it’s sometimes...

Here's a warning concerning the U.S. election and markets.Right now, no one knows what will happen, and we may not know for weeks. Although Biden is edging closer to victory, the race is still...

Jeffrey Gundlach, founder and CEO of hedge fund DoubleLine, told a U.S. pre-election webcast on Monday that gold remains an ideal hedge for inflation, is a “good holding for tail risk...