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Major U.S. indices have had a strong start to 2019. The S&P 500 enjoyed its best January performance in three decades, gaining 7.8%, as markets successfully bounced back from a dismal end to 2018....
The board of Australia's central bank, the RBA, shocked the market yesterday after suggesting they may be getting ready for a rate cut. Such a policy would signal a significant shift from its...
For the second time in a year, Saudi Arabia is reportedly persuading Russia to enter a formal pact with OPEC to control global crude exports and prices. Once again, Moscow may stall and eventually...
Reports Q4 2018 results on Thursday, February 7, before the market opens Revenue expectation: $869.5 million EPS expectation: $0.25 With the risk of government regulations on user privacy threatening...
A global supply squeeze and laser sharp focus on electric vehicle batteries has transformed nickel into one of this year’s super commodity performers, with analysts seeing little fade in the...
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...
No sooner did the word “patient” flash across screens when the U.S. Federal Reserve released its policy statement yesterday afternoon, than the Dow catapulted 100 points.Dow 15 Minute...
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 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,...
Reports Q4 2018 results on Wednesday, January 30, after the US market close Revenue Expectation: $16.4 billion EPS Expectation: $2.19 For Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), 2018 was arguably the toughest year of...
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...
Data released overnight shows that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have taken a significant bite out of both China's imports, which dropped 7.6% in December, and exports, which fell 4.4%,...
The first trading day of the New Year has come and gone, and oil traders haven’t found it assuring at all.After Wednesday’s soft open in Asia, followed by further weakness in Europe and a...
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...
It was a low-key speech delivered by a crop academic in Texas, the second smallest wheat growing state in the US. But in outlining his case for wheat in 2019, Texas A&M agricultural economist Mark...
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...