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Markets, commodities included, hate the element of surprise. And few things have caught commodity markets off-guard this year like the on-again, off-again talk of plans by the world's third largest...

Do you drink coffee by the pots and like it sweet? Even if you do, that’s unlikely to lift the arabica market from its current doldrums, or send a lifeline to sugar, which is also at multi-year...

Even though cryptocurrency prices have been significantly down throughout 2018 thus far, oddly, hashrates for the Bitcoin network—signifying mining activity—have risen meaningfully. Could...

Prices of agricultural commodities—from hogs to cattle to corn—jumped on yesterday's US trade agreement with Mexico that aims to rewrite NAFTA, but US commodity markets as a whole will...

Gold has been on the back foot lately. Since hitting a yearly high of $1,365.40 on April 11, the price of the precious metal has slipped nearly 11%. The market narrative explaining the sluggish price...

The potential elimination of rate hike guarantees into December, signaled by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday, could lead to more profit-taking in the dollar this week, while giving...

Powell's remarks lift US equities to new records However, he disappointed dollar investors, leading to a selloff Treasury yields completed a massive H&S pattern, as gradual rate hikes have been...

Central bank policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic were a lot more worried about trade tensions at the beginning of August than they let on at the time. Those worries might be enough to interrupt...