Barani Krishnan's Comment & Analysis
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The year of the pandemic continues to surprise, with 2020's choice of commodity winners and losers. In the agricultural corner, despite the storm over U.S. tariffs on China and blow to animal...
The two metals are supposed to be on the opposite ends of the investment spectrum, one leveraging on risk and the other safe-haven money. Yet, startlingly, prices of copper and gold have risen and...
From minus $40 per barrel in April to nearly $50 in the positive by December, oil’s 2020 rollercoaster ride was quite unprecedented. The price spout—in true black gold fashion—has...
To the longs in natural gas, Santa’s sleigh seems to have just whizzed past this year, without making a pit stop to deliver gifts at the Henry Hub.Hopes of pre-Christmas cheer for gas bulls were...
Orange juice futures are headed for their biggest loss in eight months as the year winds down. Yet, long-only investors in OJ, as the market is commonly known through its trading symbol, are also...
Two weeks ago, I wondered aloud on this forum if silver would get to $26 an ounce if gold reaches $1,900.Well, gold did breach $1,911 but that lasted about 2 hours in all, in an epic fail of a rally...
It’ll likely be a week of different reckonings across the commodities space, with lawmakers in the U.S. Congress finally reaching a fiscal deal for COVID-19 aid.Prices of gold, beaten to near...
Away from the world of gold, the typically less-showy platinum has been having a rocking performance}}. Next, sister-metal {{8883|palladium may catch up as investors look for choice places to put...
Memo to gas bulls: The wait for $3 pricing may take longer than thought.Natural gas futures on New York’s Henry Hub were well below the $3 per mmBtu, or million metric British thermal units mark...
Sugar prices have tumbled, on signs of sluggish year-end demand due to a pandemic that’s restricting festivities for 2020. Be that as it may, the seven-week low after a seven-month-long rally...