Commodities Analysis & Opinion

That the Saudis will continue squeezing crude exports to get the dollar per barrel they want is no dispute. Neither can the positive impact to oil from a protracted Venezuelan crisis or a patient...

A boom in demand from candy makers to hedge funds catapulted it to the top of commodity winners in 2018. But cocoa saw its crown slipping away no sooner than after the New Year began, and is now...

The political crisis in Venezuela took a new turn this week when President Trump issued sanctions on Venezuela’s national oil company, PdVSA. The objective of this move is to prevent Nicholas...

The Fed’s willingness to be “patient,” with further hikes, and “flexible” with the balance sheet, ending the automatic pilot on which the US central bank was coasting,...

Originally published by guppytraders.comThe classic trading approach is to watch the movement in gold and then trade the same move in silver. There is a small lag, with gold moving first, so...

Just as gasoline stockpiles reached record highs and the oil rig count rebounded, potential sanctions against Venezuelan oil have thrown a lifeline to U.S. crude amid deteriorating fundamentals that...

That oil will likely end the year with its biggest loss since 2014—down 25 percent—and its worst December since 2015, off 11 percent, is no longer news. What everyone wants to know is how...

“Ai Group is very concerned at the direction of forward gas prices released by the ACCC this week showing a rising trend for forward gas prices in 2019,” Ai Group Chief Executive Innes...

Saudi Arabia may have called the United States’ bluff in announcing an oil production cut, but in putting out one fire, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih has possibly started another: the...

When Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih leaves Vienna on Friday, he may be beset by two bigger worries than the current oil price crisis. The first is that Russia, rather than Riyadh, has become...

The curse of shale is its gift of cheap oil to the world, so much that few remember the spectacular blow-up of US drillers during the crude price crash of two years ago.Hedge funds, of course, can...

Oil ministers are converging in Vienna, Austria today for the biannual OPEC and OPEC+ meetings. The oil-exporting countries are expected to discuss a potential cut in production for the coming year....

US President Donald Trump’s actions with China at the G20 may have just strengthened Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s resolve on what to do at this week’s OPEC meeting:...

Promises, and more promises: the G20 wrapped on Saturday with US President Donald Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping agreeing to agree, at a later date, on a US-China trade pact that would instantly...