commodities

I certainly believe they have. Price action speaks to this. The Wall Street Journal's Market Beat had this quote about the price action in commodities:The price of many commodities and commodities stocks — from gasoline to coal to…

Oil at $100? That's certainly my call and I'll stick to it. So far my call of oil peaking at $150 is holding.( We'll see for how long). On July 9th, after oil's first pullback to $138 I said:Yesterday, oil fell the most in one day since…

As I write this, crude oil is well off its high of $147.50 on July 11. We are all eager for some sustained relief in the oil price. However, the right question at this point is: has the damage already been done?First, consumer inflation…

George W. Bush certainly has chutzpah. Ever the opportunist, he has taken advantage of high oil prices to lift the ban on offshore oil drilling. Americans continue to allow this President free reign and Congress as allowed him creeping…

This report comes from Fin24 in South Africa.Iran on Sunday said it has discovered a new oil field in the hydrocarbon-rich province of Khuzestan with more than one billion barrels of crude in place. Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said…

I might have egg all over my face quicker than quick about my $150 oil call. It seems the Fannie-Freddie bailout chatter is spooking stock markets, currency markets and the oil market. This is going to be a volatile day.The dollar dropped…

Yesterday, oil fell the most in one day since the start of the Gulf War in January 1991 to close at $136.03 in New York trading. Now is the time to evaluate whether we have seen the top in oil prices? On Thursday in my post "Oil close to…

No one is paying a whole lot of attention to Australia right now because of the massive busts in the US, the UK, Spain and Ireland. But, Australia has had a property boom as well. And this boom looks like it's coming to an end.IN further…

Oil tightened its squeeze on world economies today soaring to a new high of over $145 a barrel. Eurozone growth is also expected to take a further hit at lunchtime when the European Central Bank is expected to raise rates to curb…

After U.S. inventories reported a shock 2 million barrel draw, the price of oil rose above $144 to a new record.Crude oil futures rose to a record above $144 a barrel in New York after a U.S. government report showed an unexpected decline…