Commodity Analysis & Comment

Just three years ago, world GDP was growing at 3% a year, but copper prices were falling more than 20%. Here was Dr. Copper, the metal so called for its supposed ability to diagnose any ailment in the...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.com Rising grain prices increase cost of meat production A bullish trend in live and feeder cattle futures Lean hogs break to the upside Grilling...

US crude stocks data will determine the direction for oil prices this week as both production and refining resume slowly in Texas and the Plains, after last week’s disruptive storms that pushed...

Whether its energy, metals or edibles, the 2021 commodities rally has been remarkable for its breadth and depth, covering almost every sphere of the raw materials sector, and producing double-digit...

It's coming up on a year since the coronavirus pandemic exploded across the world and global lockdowns expanded beyond China to almost all of the rest of the world. The global oil demand situation...

Call it the black swan event of natural gas.Just like how COVID-19 totally threw the world off guard, the Artic freeze that’s paralyzed part of the energy production in Texas has caught the US...

It’s the one commodity that hasn’t exactly been steaming in this year’s rally. Prices of coffee beans may still be brewing, but annual revenue for roasted and instant coffee products...

This article was written exclusively for Investing.com Inflation can be a tough beast to tame Cotton explodes to a multi-year high; Memories of a decade past Lumber snaps back to near its all-time...

When analyzing oil fundamentals, traders must assess demand from a regional perspective. In the last few years we have seen regular talk that India will not be a major player in the future of demand...

Volatile weather forecasts are keeping natural gas traders on the edge as predicting storage draws for heating gets trickier by the week.Little about this winter has been normal, from the slow arrival...

As this year’s best-performing edible commodity, corn has barely taken a break from its marathon gains since May 2020. While some consolidation over the past two weeks has longs wondering...

Based on the chart, which showed a price surge of 22% in just three sessions, one might have thought the asset depicted was Bitcoin. Surprisingly, the spike—from the low on Jan. 28 to the high...

It doesn’t garner as many headlines as copper, but nickel is the only base metal running almost neck-in-neck with the former in a near unbroken rally since April last year. And new research...

Market fundamentals are currently lining up to pressure gold. As such, we expect the precious metal to head lower in the short- to medium-term. In particular, there are a pair of reasons bolstering...