Commodity Analysis & Comment

According to popular winter lore, the higher the squirrel builds its nest before Christmas, the colder it’ll be. Weatherman John Belski says he spotted squirrels nests at record heights in...

For at least two weeks, oil prices had an unreal, even embarrassing feel to them, rallying in an almost straight line on the puff that the U.S.-China agreement was “close” to happening,...

Rising U.S. crude inventories, a weakening Chinese economy and an ever-elusive trade deal are setting up oil prices for another fall. WTI edged down, slipping from a rebound and extending a slide for...

With all the manufactured excitement over U.S.-China progress and oil bulls’ fantasy over where crude prices could go, it’s a little easy to lose sight sometimes of the commodities that...

The trade deal headlines might have become tiring to the traders, but not to their machines. Headline-reading algorithmic trading models will remain alert to words like “close,”...

One of the top questions plaguing oil forecasters right now is how much of the commodity the U.S. will produce in 2020. Since the fracking revolution began, U.S. production has climbed every year,...

‘Tis the season to be chocolatey. As the top time of the year for bakes and other treats approach, demand and prices for cocoa, the world’s No. 1 confection and beverage commodity is also...

They rose together on the bullish fervor that only the rare confluence of events like the trade war and Fed easing can bring. Now silver, often called the poor man’s gold, looks set to share the...

A week ago, I wrote in defense of the U.S. oil supply-demand data put out by the Energy Information Administration each Wednesday.I argued specifically about the production estimate in the EIA’s...

The biggest bull market of the year in natural gas is shaping up, with huge stakes riding on an intense freeze forecast in the eastern two-thirds of the United States — the country’s...

The OPEC and OPEC+ meetings are a month away, but talk in anticipation of the events is already influencing oil prices. Both Brent and WTI dropped almost 1.5% midday Nov. 6 on news that OPEC...

This CNBC story published on Monday had a great point: Wall Street has been spooked this year by a trade war, a potential recession and multiple geopolitical concerns, including Brexit. Yet, the stock...

The most talked about story in the oil market this week might not do much for the price of oil itself. Saudi Aramco’s stock sale, coming after a four-year wait, has hogged energy headlines since...

After a phenomenal summer, nickel has gone quiet suddenly, exhibiting sluggish market action that belies its stature as the year’s biggest winning commodity. Yet, with top producer Indonesia...