In this week’s Energy Information Administration petroleum report there is an analysis on Ethanol blending in the U.S. and its growing share in gasoline in recent years. Here is a weekly review for the week ends on November 18th of…
Gold and silver prices sharply fell on the first day of the week after they had moderately inclined on Friday. Other commodities prices also declined yesterday: Crude oil was traded down, and natural gas spot prices continued to free-fall and…
The U.S existing homes sales rate changed direction and slightly rose in October 2011 by 1.4%; this news comes despite the recent falls in the housing starts report. According to the recent report of the Realtors’ organization, the annual rate…
During the week there are several important reports to be published that may influence forex and commodities traders including: U.S. existing home sales report, FOMC meeting minutes Euro Area’s Manufacturing and Great Britain’s revised GDP report for Q3 2011. Here…
Gold and silver prices bounced back on Friday after they had sharply declined a day earlier; Brent oil price also followed and slightly rose, while WTI oil price continued to decline; natural gas prices also kept their downward trend yesterday.…
Crude oil prices took a sharp turn during the second part of the week as they have sharply declined on Thursday. Brent oil price had a downward trend during most of the week, while WTI oil price started the week…
Major commodities prices changed direction and sharply fell yesterday along with the rest of the markets including American stock markets: gold and silver prices sharply declined; crude oil prices also followed and plummeted; natural gas future prices changed direction and…
According to this month’s U.S. Census Bureau report of the new residential construction statistics for October 2011 there was a sharp increase in building permits but a very moderate slip in housing starts. Privately owned Housing starts slightly declined in…
Today the recent release of the Philly Fed Manufacturing Index for November was published: this survey showed the U.S. manufacturing conditions are still expanding, but at a slower rate than in October; the November Philly Fed index declined from +8.7…
Major commodities prices continued to zigzag with no clear direction especially the bullion prices: gold and silver prices moderately fell; WTI oil price sharply rose, while Brent oil price slipped; natural gas prices continued to decline. Many currencies including Euro,…