Commodities Opinion & Analysis

US President Donald Trump didn't wait long to serve up his latest twitter volley after Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, announced at the weekend that it planned to cut half a million...

Oil prices were up strongly in early Asia trade on Monday after Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading crude exporter, announced plans over the weekend to reduce a half million barrels from its daily...

With mid-$3 levels proving to be the new normal for natural gas since summer, growing bets for strong heating demand from the winter ahead are prompting some traders to ask: can $4 pricing, last seen...

This week there have been several important developments related to oil and gas that will affect markets for the rest of this year and into 2019. 1. Iran Sanctions On Monday, November 5, new U.S....

The much-awaited U.S. midterm elections have come and gone, and taken with them President Donald Trump’s hold on Congress after Democrats took back the House. On Thursday, the Federal Reserve...

For some time now, the market narrative for oil has been that it's poised to go to $100 a barrel and even higher. The assumption for this was based on many factors. But a key driver was considered to...

After steep losses in 2016 and 2017 and amid lingering worries of oversupply, not many had wagered on a super run for cocoa this year. But with only eight weeks left and festivities promising copious...

Will oil bears get to call the bluff on Iranian sanctions as they’ve wagered? The waiting game is up for Donald Trump’s bid to put a freeze on the world’s fourth largest oil...

The US shale industry has once again defied expectations. New data from the EIA show that US oil production in August 2018 was higher than initial estimates showed. The EIA-914 Monthly Crude Oil and...

US growth figures have been on a tear for most of this year, while global equity and oil prices have just experienced one of their worst selloffs—leading to an economic narrative that simply...

Jair Bolsonaro’s honeymoon as Brazilian president has just begun. Yet his campaign’s courtship of the country’s commodity markets may have ended even before he swept into office this...

Key Data Releases in Agricultural Markets: SAGIS producer deliveries data: 31/10/2018 SAGIS weekly grain trade data: 01/11/2018 USDA’s crop progress report: 05/11/2018 SAGIS monthly data:...

Key Data Releases in Agricultural Markets: SAGIS producer deliveries data: 31/10/2018 SAGIS weekly grain trade data: 01/11/2018 USDA’s crop progress report: 05/11/2018 SAGIS monthly data:...

Oil traders couldn’t be more confused. Two apparently conflicting stances by Saudi Arabia—that it will maximize crude pumping but could also cut production later this quarter—has...