Summary: Gasoline (CME_RB1) has seen a price increase of 12.01% over the past month Shanghai Steel Rebar Futures (SHFE_RB2) are up on the rise with a 8.43% increase Brent Crude Futures (ICE_B1) are up on the rise with a 7.72% increase Ending Sanctions Led to Surge in Oil Prices Gasoline (CME_RB1) are up on the […]
Sugar Slumped to a Decade Low due to Supply Surplus The Sugar Price Index averaged 157.3 points in August, 5.4% lower than the July average. On August 22, raw sugar prices in New York sank to 9.91 US cents, the lowest level in a decade because of a severe global supply glut, great fund short […]
Precious Metals Trembled by Strong USD During the past few months, precious metals were severely hammered by a surging USD on the foreign exchange market. Steep losses occurred to all of gold, silver, platinum and palladium. Gold sank to a 1.5-year low, silver a more than 2.5-year low, platinum a 14-year low and palladium a […]
Biggest Winner in Commodities Sector With a total gain of 48% cocoa is this year’s best-performing commodity, taking advantage of a drop of over 40% by the end of 2017 from the level in late 2015. Last Wednesday, the cocoa futures on ICE has climbed to an 18-month high of $2,836 per metric ton. The […]
Commodities Market Review During the past week, grain became the biggest winner once again. Last Thursday, wheat price rallied to a three-year high of $5.93 per bushel. Later on Friday, wheat price further hold the highest level and hence achieved a weekly gain of about 7%. Grain market in general got firmed amid worries about […]
Commodities market review Grain market experienced a volatile week from July 23 to July 27 due to some heavy-handed external influences. Three of the main grain products, wheat, soybean and corn all greatly rallied over the week, caused by a combining effect of global weather concerns and the announcement of $12 billion aid to American […]
As trade war is taking off, the global commodities market is the first to be directly hit. Despite rising price of other risky assets, the Dow Jones Commodity Index has decreased 5.37% in the past month. Among all segments, US cotton and Chinese steel market saw most significant rise due to macro statistics and political […]
Last week USD was volatile due to the continuous release of U.S. economic data, FOMC meeting minutes and monthly jobs report. As a direct result, the dollar-denominated yellow metal was trembling as well. (Source: goldprice.org) Bullion Sank to New 2018 Low On July 2, Monday, US manufacturing report on Business was released by the […]
Gold Slid to a New 2018 Low Despite concerns about the trade war between the U.S. and China, gold price didn’t act as the traditional safe haven this time and unexpectedly got a 0.56% setback over the past week. Its $1,267.20 per ounce closing price on Thursday reached the lowest since last December. (Source: goldprice.org) […]
Cotton Price Refreshed its 6-Year High The U.S. cotton market has remained stable since its spike in 2011, when China executed its cotton reserving and fiber hording plan. It is believed that U.S. cotton demand and price were artificially kept low because there are always worries that China would unexpectedly unleash its cotton stockpile, about […]
Starting from June, industrial metals, especially copper, have been the big movers in the commodities market. On June 8, the LME Copper soared to $7261.5 per ton, reaching its highest price since January 2014. The price of copper is essentially determined by the supply and demand relationship as well as the broad economic factors, such […]
In the latest gold news: As of April 09 at approximately 11:14am EST, gold was trading at $1333.09 per ounce
In the latest gold news: As of April 02 at approximately 2:33pm EST, gold was trading at $1343.11 per ounce
In the latest gold news: As of March 26 at approximately 10:11am EST, gold was trading at $1353.55 per ounce
