Commodity Analysis & Comment

Copper has lost 16% from this year’s record highs, recoiling from the debt crisis at China’s property developer Evergrande as well as Beijing’s determination to use stockpiles of the metal—rather than...

Gold prices are likely to start a new leg lower over the next two days as the dollar ticks upward on speculation that the Federal Reserve could announce some hawkish action at its monthly policy...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.com.Soybeans post WASDE and going into the harvest Corn has corrected CBOT wheat remains over $7 - Wheat is highly political Cotton is still on a...

The script is almost the same each time:Good US economic data; dollar rockets, gold crashes.Bad US data; dollar tumbles, gold pauses or struggles to rally.Non-consequential US data; dollar pauses,...

Production, unable to keep pace with demand for cooling, has already taken natural gas prices to seven-year highs this summer, even before the advent of winter and its need for heating. Now enter...

Electricity prices across Europe are surging, and it isn’t even winter yet. In the U.K., the price for baseload electricity hit £354 (US$491) per megawatt-hour (MWh) on Monday. That's 700%...

Crude oil climbed for the third day in a row yesterday, hitting a six-week high, as traders continue to track tropical storm Nicholas which is heading toward the US's Gulf Coast, a key oil production...

Every inflation data print these days seem to spell doom for gold and the US CPI number, scheduled for release Tuesday, isn't expected to be much different.Forecasters are expecting the figures to...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.com.Oil prices have been all over the place recently. On Thursday, for example, WTI initially slumped by more than $1 on news China released some of...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.com.Rare earth metals are critical for technology and a greener energy path China dominates the rare earth metals market China flooded the market to...

China has proven it can have its cake—and eat it too. As the largest commodities importer, Beijing often buys raw materials above and ahead of its needs, saving a meaningful portion for that rainy day...

In the past two weeks, two very different outlooks on the oil market were released. The first, from OPEC, presents a cautious look at the supply and demand picture for 2022. The second, from Morgan...

It almost feels like we’re back in the days of John Arnold, the billionaire founder of the Centaurus Energy hedge fund.Most-active October gas on the New York Mercantile Exchange’s Henry Hub jumped 40...

Once again, analysts have to step up to the plate to make sense of an inane selloff in gold, when the yellow metal’s prices should be exploding after the abysmal US jobs report for August.In the place...