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By Andrew Robinson Commodities suffered as the US dollar caught a bid into the month- and quarter-ends at the start of the week, though recovered slightly as the dollar gave back ground yesterday following disappointing US data. The agricultural sector was boosted by lower stockpiles and h...

Base metal prices fell by 23.43% in 2015, but in 2016 they appreciated by 26.77%. In 2017, the sector of nonferrous industrial metals was the best-performing commodities sector posting a 21.99% gain for the year. In 2018, the industrial commodities shed 15.78% of their value. The base metals...

Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on September 30, 2019. One of the past month's interesting stock-market developments was the strength of the banking sector in both nominal terms and relative to the broad market. The strength in nominal dollar terms is illustrated by t...

Donald Trump has become only the fourth president in U.S. history to be the subject of a House impeachment inquiry. The details are still unfolding, and it’s an extremely divisive topic. If history is any guide, it’s highly unlikely that Trump will be convicted of any impeachme...

I'm short-term bearish on gold but long-term very bullish. One of the key factors I look at for gold prices is the producer price index of commodities to wage ratio which I will share below. Commodities, like everything else, has booms and busts. Industrialists, capitalists and their enginee...

On September 28, 2018, we published our annual S&D report on Seeking Alpha for the gold market. In that report, the Variable Changing Price Momentum Indicator (VC PMI) annual price indicator anticipated, as the report was written with gold closing at $1,196, a Sell (S1) level of $1,336 t...

Precious metals prices have been moving in a wide trading range over the recent sessions as the market continues to digest the rallied that occurred over the summer. Wider trading ranges offer opportunities for traders to capture the ups and downs of the market. However, the evidence continues...

Gold has been one of the best-performing assets of 2019, but it had to wait until almost halfway through the year to climb above its critical technical resistance level. In July 2016, in the aftermath of the shock of the Brexit referendum, the price of gold rallied to a high at $1377.50. The...

The knee-jerk reaction to the most recent Fed meeting took the price of gold lower and below the $1500 level on the nearby December COMEX futures contract. At its September 18 meeting, the US central bank lowered the short-term Fed Funds rate by 25 basis points. The move was the second since J...

Something happened in the credit market this week. A Barron's article about it began: "There have been disruptions in the plumbing of U.S. markets this week. While the process of fixing them was bumpy, it was more of a technical mishap than a cause for investor concern." Keep Calm and ...