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The Bloomberg Commodity Index traded higher for the first time in four weeks. While growth-dependent commodities such as crude oil moved lower despite renewed concerns about stability in the Middle...

Global commodity markets have seen their fair share of turmoil in recent weeks. The potential twin disruptive impact of trade war and upcoming recession helped sent energy and industrial metals...

The latest trade war escalation, triggered by the White House’s decision to blacklist Huawei and several Chinese surveillance companies, has further increased pressure on the global supply chain of...

It took one Sunday tweet from President Trump to shatter the relative calm across global financial markets. Instead of going into a week widely expected to yield a long-awaited trade deal between the...

The commodity sector, just like most other asset classes, reported strong gains during the first-quarter of 2019. The near-7 per cent return in the Bloomberg Commodity Index was the best since Q2’16...

Commodities traded higher for a second week, albeit at a slower pace, with gains being driven by precious metals and — for a change — the agriculture sector. Precious metals received a boost from...

Global commodity prices staged a comeback this past week after the dollar failed to hold onto recent gains and rising stock markets helped to drive renewed risk appetite. The weaker dollar was led by...

Commodities started March on the defensive as losses across key agricultural products and emerging profit-taking in precious metals more than offset gains especially among industrial and platinum...

Global markets from stocks to corporate bonds and commodities have experienced strong performance in recent weeks on upbeat comments from US and Chinese trade negotiators. The attention has been so...

Gold, secure government bonds and some currencies, such as the US dollar, are often viewed as the go-to markets during a recession when capital preservation becomes more important than capital...

The US dollar, which has been strengthening every day since the dovish shift by the Federal Open Market Committee on January 30, only added to the market’s unease. The index, which tracks a basket...

Global markets, led by emerging market bonds and stocks, advanced alongside US stocks where a robust earning season has so far helped offset the negative impacts of a prolonged government shutdown...

OLE S HANSEN - The strong beginning to 2019 across financial markets and commodities has extended into its third week. Dovish comments from the US Federal Open Market Commission, rate and tax cut...

The early January recovery across key commodities extended into a second week with the Bloomberg Commodity index rallying by more than 4 per cent since touching a near three-year low on the first...

A tumultuous first trading week of 2019 headed towards a calmer close. After hitting a 33-months low the Bloomberg Commodity Index managed to climb to record its first weekly gain in five. The global...

Commodities found a bid on Friday to finish the week higher after the Opec+ group – following 24 hours of negotiations – agreed to a production cut large enough to support the market. Gold,...

The Bloomberg Commodity Index, which tracks a basket of major commodities within the three major sectors of energy, metals and agriculture, was on track to show its first weekly rise in six. Gains in...

The commodity sector remains on the defensive with rising supply hurting a diversified group of raw materials from crude oil to grains. Growth concerns in the world’s two biggest economies into 2019...

Commodities remained exposed to broad-based selling this past week. For a third consecutive week, the sector struggled to put up a defence against the challenging combination of rising US interest...

The Bloo-mberg Com-modity Index, which tracks the performance of 22 major commodity futures, rose from the ashes this past week. The 2 per cent gain occurred after some early weakness after the US...