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After hitting the roof in May, US lumber hasn’t exactly plunged to bargain basement prices just yet. Clichés aside, however, a near 30-percent drop from the commodity's peak is indeed...
Though US President Donald Trump's second round of recent attacks on the Fed have battered the dollar, technicals signal that the global reserve currency continues to maintain an upward...
The prices of cryptocurrencies, including for the most popular tokens such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, have been hammered since the beginning of the year, as the ongoing crypto bear market continues to...
Optimism over US-China trade talks will likely send agricultural markets from soybeans to hogs into an extended rally this week, amid a weaker dollar that could provide a boost as well to industrial...
US energy bulls who missed their chance to profit from $3 natural gas this summer—despite overwhelming demand for air-conditioning—are setting their sights on the upcoming winter, when...
Crude oil is under significant pressure, as multiple risks threaten the continuing global economic expansion. Obvious culprits include the Turkish economic crisis and ongoing trade war.The former has...
Geert Rouwenhorst, the Yale professor who shares responsibility for the idea that commodities are an asset class, got plenty of laughs when he told a trade conference 12 years ago that most people...
In “A Frayed History: The Journey of Cotton in India”, authors Meena Menon and Uzramma write of both the extreme riches and hardship that can be experienced from growing and trading the...
Gold bugs will battle to defend the yellow metal at the key $1,200 an ounce level this week as Turkey’s sanctions crisis diverts investors from commodities and other risk assets into the dollar....
US oil prices have fallen below $70 a barrel since the record high production of 11 million barrels per day announced in July. But price drop aside, investors in the country’s shale crude sector...
It was the best performing commodity in the first quarter. Now, cocoa might be lucky to remain in the tenth spot the rest of the year after weaker grinding results and confectionery demand cost it its...
In the 1983 Hollywood classic “Trading Places”, Ralph Bellamy’s trader character, Randolph Duke, famously says: “And then there are other commodities, like frozen orange...
For technology investors, this is one of the most challenging times to remain faithful.After producing triple-digit gains during the past five years, a few tech giants are showing signs of peaking,...
Oat lovers may have nervously downed their favorite breakfast the past week after seeing US futures of the grain rocket without much explanation. The good news for them is that the market action in...
US crude oil’s resilience at the high $60 levels will be tested again this week as the US-China trade war reaches a new flashpoint that could send more investors toward the relative safety of...
Bulls in the US natural gas market may be on their way to bigger paydays.Trading mostly sideways since mid-June, gas futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange had their largest gain in six weeks on...
If gold is on the ropes, to use a boxing analogy, then platinum is looking like it’s on the canvas—and unlikely to get up soon.Grouped together with bullion and silver as precious metals,...