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Energy & Commodities · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Energy led a broad commodities advance on Monday as the 60-day deadline under the June memorandum between the United States and Iran…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Minamitorishima is about 1.51 square kilometres of flat Pacific land, roughly the size of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace grounds, some 1,950 kilometres southeast…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Oman's merchandise trade surplus widened 37.2 percent in the first five months of 2026, to OMR 3.368 billion from OMR 2.455 billion…
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Egypt · Aug 16, 2026 · 6 min read
Egypt's merchandise trade deficit widened by $9.5 billion in the first nine months of the 2025/2026 fiscal year, and roughly seven-tenths of…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 15, 2026 · 6 min read
Gold fixed at 4,390.70 dollars on 14 August after a second consecutive weekly gain, leaving it 0.52 percent higher for 2026 and…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 14, 2026 · 4 min read
Commodities ended the week broadly higher, with agriculture producing the largest moves and crude rebounding. Wheat gained 3.11 percent to 689.00 cents…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 13, 2026 · 6 min read
Commodities were broadly weaker on Thursday, with sixteen of the seventeen contracts tracked here quoted below their previous settlements, our calculation. Palladium…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 12, 2026 · 4 min read
The grains took the session on Wednesday, breaking a two-day run in which energy had led, with corn jumping 4.45 percent to…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Spot gold traded above four thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars an ounce on Wednesday, up one point one percent on the…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 11, 2026 · 4 min read
Energy led the commodities complex for a second straight session on Tuesday, extending the surge covered in our Monday commodities wrap, with…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Energy led commodities sharply higher on Monday, with crude and refined products surging around 5 percent as doubts grew that the United…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 7, 2026 · 4 min read
Precious metals led commodities higher on Friday after a surprisingly weak US jobs report knocked the dollar and Treasury yields lower, while…
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Energy led a broad commodities advance on Monday as the 60-day deadline under the June memorandum between the United States and Iran expired with Tehran ruling out an extension, per CNBC. ICE Brent for October was quoted at 90.98 dollars a barrel in late trading, up 2.78 percent after touching 91 dollars, with WTI for…
Minamitorishima is about 1.51 square kilometres of flat Pacific land, roughly the size of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace grounds, some 1,950 kilometres southeast of the capital. What gives it weight is the exclusive economic zone it generates — approximately 430,000 square kilometres, larger than Japan’s entire landmass — and what lies beneath the seabed within it….
Oman’s merchandise trade surplus widened 37.2 percent in the first five months of 2026, to OMR 3.368 billion from OMR 2.455 billion a year earlier. The headline is strong. The composition is where the interest lies. National Centre for Statistics and Information data show total merchandise exports rising 10.1 percent to OMR 10.589 billion from…
Egypt’s merchandise trade deficit widened by $9.5 billion in the first nine months of the 2025/2026 fiscal year, and roughly seven-tenths of that came from goods that have nothing to do with energy. The Central Bank of Egypt’s balance of payments release for July to March shows the merchandise trade deficit rising 24.6 percent to…
Gold fixed at 4,390.70 dollars on 14 August after a second consecutive weekly gain, leaving it 0.52 percent higher for 2026 and 18.77 percent below its January PM fixing high.
Commodities ended the week broadly higher, with agriculture producing the largest moves and crude rebounding. Wheat gained 3.11 percent to 689.00 cents a bushel and corn 2.49 percent to 483.75 cents, the two biggest advances on the board. Brent crude was quoted at 88.38 dollars a barrel, up 1.50 percent, and West Texas Intermediate at…
Commodities were broadly weaker on Thursday, with sixteen of the seventeen contracts tracked here quoted below their previous settlements, our calculation. Palladium led the decline, down 3.89 percent at 1,320.50 dollars an ounce, and sugar was the only gainer, up 2.01 percent. Energy was uniformly lower, with Brent quoted 2.30 percent lower at 86.93 dollars…
The grains took the session on Wednesday, breaking a two-day run in which energy had led, with corn jumping 4.45 percent to 481.00 cents a bushel and wheat 3.32 percent to 669.75 cents, per CNBC. Crude went the other way and gave back a little of Tuesday’s advance, with West Texas Intermediate settling down 0.26…
Spot gold traded above four thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars an ounce on Wednesday, up one point one percent on the day, having climbed close to ten percent since the end of July. The World Gold Council’s market commentary, published on 6 August, recorded the metal finishing July almost exactly where it began the…
Energy led the commodities complex for a second straight session on Tuesday, extending the surge covered in our Monday commodities wrap, with West Texas Intermediate settling up 1.31 percent at 83.21 dollars a barrel and Brent up 1.35 percent at 88.90 dollars, per CNBC, as Iran said the Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until…