It No Longer Pays to Store Oil at NYMEX Cushing (Guest Post)
By Commodities Now Since December 2010, the front-month WTI/Brent spread has widened significantly. The spread hit a record of -$19.54/ bbl on 21 February 2011 when TransCanada announced that the...
View ArticleICE Brent A Better Fuel Hedge Than NYMEX WTI? (Guest Post)
By James Zhang Since the beginning of this year, WTI and Brent have diverged significantly on the back of storage concerns at Cushing, the WTI delivery point. Year-to-date, front-month Brent has...
View ArticleDon’t Give Up On Commodities Just Yet (Guest Post)
By Commodities Now The prices for many commodities suffered the worst week in recent memory at the start of May. Oil prices dipped below $100 per barrel, gold fell below $1,500 an ounce and silver...
View ArticleBarclays Capital Survey Says China and Commodities Still Favorable (Guest Post)
By Commodities Now Barclays Capital held their 4th annual China Commodities Seminar in Suzhou last week of April, 2011. The seminar was attended by around 50 representatives from major producers,...
View ArticleGold: A Tale of Western Fear and Eastern Love (Guest Post)
Commodities Now The World Gold Council (WGC) released its quarterly Gold Demand Trends report this week and, as always, it was filled with fascinating data on the strength of the global gold market....
View ArticleInvestors Still Bullish on Gold and Copper (Guest Post)
By Commodities Now According to a June 2011 survey by ETF Securities, 90% of European investors have increased their holdings in precious metals over the past five years – this has mostly been driven...
View ArticleAnother Commodities Bull Run By QE3? (Guest Post)
By Commodities Now The dark cloud over the US economy has had a small silver lining for commodity prices in the form of renewed expectations of yet another bout of quantitative easing from the Fed and...
View ArticleFinding Gold in Undervalued Gold Miners? (Guest Post)
via Commodities Now While the party continues for gold bullion prices, stocks of gold companies have been a no-show. Both the NYSE Arca Gold Bugs Index (HUI) has the Philadelphia Gold & Silver...
View ArticleNo Love for the Coffee Market?
By EconMatters 19 Months in the DowntrendIt has been a rough 19 months in the Coffee Market if you were long, and you had to be real nimble trying to trade the falling knife with some counter-trend...
View ArticleWTI – Brent Spread to test $30 Level in 2013
By EconMattersSeaway Pipeline or Garden HoseThis is hilarious if prices weren`t so damn high, but despite a robust export market for finished products, crude oil is backing up all the way to Cushing,...
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