Commodities Opinion & Analysis

After two hurtful years of double-digit losses back-to-back, things may be looking up for investors still faithful to their sugar. Lower Brazilian sugarcane production and broadly higher crude oil and...

Goldman Sachs says it won't be `hoodwinked' on commodities again as it recommends investors buy into this year’s comeback story in oil, despite last year’s spectacular collapse. Saudi...

The path of least resistance in oil is higher. Even oil bears will agree. What remains an enigma is how much further the bull market can go without flipping as Saudi determination to cut supply faces...

We take a look at the formal number of employees in the gold mining sector as measured by the Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA). And the numbers...

Big Western banks aren’t the only ones helping put Saudi Arabia’s economy and its state oil company's IPO back on track. The Kingdom might owe a certain gratitude as well to the Mexicans,...

Gold outperformed all major commodities in 2018 and still continues to do so. the bullion is being on an upward trajectory since October 2018 as a result of market turmoil. Why is gold still climbing...

Last year’s oil story was all about oversupply. This year’s story might be all about demand from China—or rather, the lack of it. Just when oil bulls thought they had it all to drive...

US-Sino trade talks are likely to add to the bullish New Year fervor in oil, tipping US crude beyond the key $50 per barrel mark this week, while gold could stomp new ground in $1,300 territory from a...

The winter rally in US natural gas may have ended even before the winter got going, and the market could struggle to return to $3 levels. Those who witnessed the jaw-dropping run-up in gas prices to...

Oil prices opened in 2019 significantly lower than where they were on January 2, 2018. WTI started off at $45.81, 24% below where it started on the first day of trade in 2018. Brent opened at $45.15,...

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...

For a while, it looked invincible at the top of the commodities heap, as forecasts rolled out for bitter cold in the months ahead while inventories of the fuel available for heating were at multiyear...

Without doubt, the biggest story for oil during 2018 was its price volatility. The commodity is nearly 30% lower now than where it was last year. WTI started 2018 trading at close to $60 per barrel;...