Commodity Analysis & Comment

Typically, as August comes to a close, the business and investing world slows while investors and traders take summer vacation. With lower background noise from markets, it's a great time to assess...

The “shoulder season” for natural gas is looming on the market, bringing with it the woe of weak demand and pricing that could further challenge the fuel’s key $2 support. With the...

Gold is in a comfortable win-win scenario that's likely to see it rise whether monetary policy is eased by the U.S. Federal Reserve or not. Both lower interest rates and recession would boost the...

Is there hope for large drawdowns in U.S. crude at this point of the driving season?Since 2019 began, oil markets have experienced some of the most incredible supply outages and geopolitical tensions,...

Gold is at a crossroads, as both speculators, who’ve been chasing it higher, and consumers, who need to buy cheap, hit the pause button.U.S. rating and research agency Fitch Solutions sees only...

Oil prices are climbing for the second day after a Yemeni separatist attack on Saudi oil fields on Saturday added further tension to an already precarious Mideast environment. At the same time, the...

They’ve seen many years of false starts, but gold bugs probably can’t be surer than now of the rally in the shiny metal.Sought in both good times—think jewelry and other ornamental...

When oil prices were heading to $80 per barrel last summer, it took a few phone calls and an announcement from OPEC and Russia to stabilize the market. The current reality presents an entirely...

Crude traders, fasten your seat belts: This market might be in for one heck of a ride.Oil prices are experiencing some of their greatest volatility ever as the U.S.-China trade war yanks crude around...

The Saudis have sworn to rebalance oil prices, but it could take just another U.S. stockpile build or Chinese buying of Iranian crude to send the market into a tailspin.Gold, meanwhile, remains within...

Saudi Arabia is apparently determined not to let oil prices crash again like last year.But with more than half of the peak summer driving period in the U.S. over, does the Kingdom and the enlarged...

Oil surged Thursday after reports Saudi Arabian officials were holding discussions with other oil producers about possible market intervention to stabilize falling prices. Exporters have already been...

Oil prices have been dropping again, driven down by fear that the U.S.-China trade conflict won’t be resolved and will plunge both countries into oil-demand-killing recessions. At the same time,...

U.S. natural gas could be on the cusp of breaking below the $2 pricing it has defended since 2016, as production of the fuel continues to overwhelm despite a pipeline outage. For the second week in a...