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Yesterday's consumer price index release caught traders unprepared. Both the headline and core readings for the month of June surged 0.9%, showing that inflation spiked nearly double the already...

Wall Street's second quarter earnings season kicked off this week, with banking giants JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) having reported yesterday; lenders Bank of America...

It couldn’t have come at a more inopportune time for OPEC and the ​​oil bulls who live off the cartel, but China has started to slow its buying of crude—in the same way it has...

It had barely recovered from the COVID-19 itself and now the Delta variant looks set to put a tighter bear squeeze on cocoa.The raw material for chocolates, baked goods, ice-cream and countless other...

There appears to be a perfect storm of events setting up to pressure the Australian dolllar lower.After the US Federal Reserve surprised markets in mid-June by moving up its timeline for...

A raft of inflation data and a host of speeches by Federal Reserve officials, along with the dollar’s reaction to those, will determine if gold gets to progress more deeply into $1,800 territory...

It was probably not what many people expected in this era of food commodity-fueled inflation, but soybeans are in a bear market after a huge upward revision in US stockpiles of the grain sent...

After a near invincible run for most of the second quarter, Q3 begins with natural gas heading for its sharpest weekly loss since April. And for good reason too: The next couple of weeks might not be...

On Tuesday, the US Defense Department scuppered its JEDI cloud computing project, a $10 billion, Trump-administration agreement with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Instead, the DoD announced, "a new...

Fixed-income stocks have been in demand recently, thanks to expectations that U.S. Treasury yields will stay tame in the second half of the year amid fresh signs that the economic recovery from the...

A return to $1,800 pricing may have surprised even some of gold's ardent bulls, but the yellow metal needs to pass two stringent tests to stay in that vicinity.The first is the minutes of the Federal...

Energy markets are again in the grip of uncertainty after the OPEC+ oil cartel's members failed to agree on a plan to boost crude output. For investors, including those in related equities, that means...

As we write this, WTI is trading above $75 for the fourth straight day. In fact, it’s more than halfway toward $77, its highest level since Nov. 12, 2014. The breakdown of production limit talks...

Oil bulls are all smiles, having achieved the seemingly impossible: Not a single additional barrel of output was agreed by OPEC+ for August onward.The truth is, trouble may just be starting for longs...

When compared to the broader market, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has been an underperformer for much of this year. Investors soured on the world’s largest electric vehicle maker amid growing competitive...

The US dollar gained on Wednesday, hitting a 2-1/2 month high, posting its strongest month since November 2016, after Donald Trump won the presidential election.Starting on June 6, and escalating...