The $3 billion bid by Russian state oil giant Rosneft for the 49% it doesn’t already own of gas producer Itera seems, on the face of it, to be overpriced. A 49% stake in Itera’s natural gas assets is worth ...

Coffee futures on IntercontinentalExchange, the commodities trading market, for arabica beans (not the cheaper, nastier robusta) traded below $1.30 per pound today for the first time since March 5, 2010. ...

EU regulators are investigating to determine whether oil companies colluded to manipulate price benchmarks

Even with silver being a volatile metal at times, I'm still a fan. I'll admit however, there are certainly some potential pitfalls to buying the shiny stuff. In fact, if you're not careful, you can take quite a hit on investing in silver due to simple ignorance regarding its purchase. This is why I make sure that when I'm …

On top of a slowdown in Australia's lucrative mining sector, consumer sentiment in the country appears to have deteriorated sharply, posing a challenge to the central bank which cut interest rates to a ...

China has big plans for mountainous Yunnan province, in the southwest of the country. They include a building boom, a new road and a petroleum industry centered on oil and chemical refineries. The raw ...

By Steven Ralston, CFA Last week, Petaquilla Minerals (Toronto:PTQ: TO) and (OTC BB:PTQMF) announced the latest step in the advancement of the Lomero-Poyatos gold project in Spain, specifically that the ...

First it was gold, and now it's silver. The metal fell victim to heavy selling on Monday, dragging gold down with it, on U.S. dollar strength and as investors turned more cautious on precious metals as ...

Corporate America loves the US’s shale gas boom—but when it comes to exporting the stuff, companies are divided. Fossil-fuel producers like ExxonMobil are all in favor of building liquefied natural gas ...

* Dollar lifted by Fed official's comments on QE * Gold prices set to end the week down nearly 5 pct * Palladium, platinum outperform after Platinum Week (Updates prices) By Jan Harvey LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) ...

I think metals are a great form of investment. They are tangible assets, are often non-sustainable, and can be great hedges against inflation and economic uncertainty. Therefore, I've been making a push lately to learn more about metals and metal investment. In the process, I've come across a few websites that have been …

Tony Hayward’s appointment as interim chairman of Glencore Xstrata, the world’s fourth-largest mining company, completes his rehabilitation—the 56-year-old oilman, ousted and humiliated as head of BP three ...

By Steven Ralston, CFA Earlier this week,  Colt Resources (TSXV:GTP.V)  filed the financial statements and Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) for the year ending December 31, 2012. These documents ...

By Steven Ralston, CFA This week,  Colt Resources (TSXV:GTP.V)  reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ending December 31, 2012. For the quarter, the company reported a loss for the ...

Golden Week came early this year in Hong Kong. The Labour Day holiday during the week of May 1 has traditionally been one of three national holidays when mainland Chinese tourists flock to the tax-free ...

While US banks like to trumpet their investments in renewable energy they don’t talk so much about financing environmental pariahs like the coal industry. Bank of America, for instance, has committed to ...

The domestic abundance and competitive pricing of natural gas is pushing the industrial transport industry to consider it as a more cost effective fuel source. In early March BNSF, the railroad wholly ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Russia today for a sit-down with his counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Near the top of the agenda: Japan’s  insatiable appetite for natural gas, which Russia has in ...

Large swings in the price of gold over the past two weeks have cast major doubts over the fate of the precious metal, however one bank suggests the worst may be over for bullion this year.

If you've noticed your utility bills falling, it may not be a figment of your imagination. Surging natural gas production in the U.S. has had one benefit already: curbing or even cutting power costs.

We still may not be driving flying cars in 2040—will we ever?—but it’s likely our rides will powered by natural gas. That’s just one of the predictions in the US government’s yearly exercise in soothsaying ...

A surprise drop in gasoline supplies sent oil and gasoline futures higher Wednesday, but the trend for pump prices should continue to be lower for now.

Gold is clawing its way back up amid signs that demand for the precious metal is soaring a week after a massive sell-off sent prices to their lowest level in more than two years.

For years, and especially in 2008, all that glittered was gold...until now.

Natural gas futures surged nearly 3 percent on bullish data on supplies to reach an intraday high of $4.335 per million BTUs, the highest price for a front month contract since July 2011.

Many gold producers will struggle to stay afloat if the gold price slumps below $1,200 analysts have told CNBC, potentially putting the gold mining industry at severe risk beyond 2017, according to Goldman ...

Easing growth in China and pessimism about the U.S. recovery after a surprise 0.4 percent contraction in retail sales last month are likely to push oil prices lower, according to CNBC's latest survey.

Truckers considering natural gas as an alternative to high-priced diesel say the cost of vehicles that run on the cheap and cleaner-burning fuel is still too high for them to see a timely payback on their ...

Natural gas is abundant, clean and far cheaper than diesel fuel. That has the U.S. transportation and auto industries looking for ways to kick their dependence on dirtier fossil fuels.

Despite objections, the U.S. is heading down the road to export natural gas, and that could ultimately help shake up world energy markets. Selling some of the U.S.'s natural gas bounty abroad would bolster ...

The prospect of snap elections in Venezuela - which may be triggered if President Hugo Chavez steps down due to his worsening health - may create volatility in global oil markets though any upward price ...

Benchmark oil prices may be vulnerable to further selling pressure with some predicting U.S. crude futures may drop below $90 a barrel this week though a positive jobs report on Friday may help contain ...

The days of lofty oil prices are numbered and the price of Brent Crude oil is set to fall 30 percent to $80 per barrel by the end of the year, according to Robert Levitt, CEO and founder of U.S. wealth ...

Shell CEO Peter Voser told CNBC he doesn't expect a major recovery in natural gas prices in the U.S., after the Nymex-traded futures contract rebounded 24 percent from a year ago to $3.23 per million British ...

U.S. benchmark crude oil prices are expected to resume their march towards triple digits as stock markets respond to improved economic data in the U.S. and China, according to CNBC's latest oil market ...

U.S. crude futures may test $100 a barrel this week - possibly breaching triple digits - after an attack against a gas facility in OPEC member Algeria on Wednesday escalated into an international hostage ...

Global oil markets, under pressure from increased North American production, are facing the return of a familiar upside risk - the threat of supply disruption from North Africa after an attack on an Algerian ...

Oil prices could fall by more than $10 per barrel in 2013, according to a number of analysts, who say the decline could provide a big boost for economic growth in the West.

The oil market may appear calm but the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that recent data show the market is actually undergoing violent structural changes.

Rich Ilczyszyn, CEO and founder of iiTrader and a "Futures Now" trader, talks turkey about a seasonal gold trade that is on an 11-year win streak.

"The market has been propped up by these sugar highs," says one pro. "QE half-trillion a year is not sustainable" and "Obama is going to raise revenue and cut entitlements. The ...

Gasoline prices are likely to keep falling, after Super Storm Sandy shut down highways and air travel across the East Coast.

A dramatic spiral for gasoline prices in some key battleground states comes just three weeks before the U.S. presidential elections.

"It will only take another refinery issue and a bit more of geopolitical noise to have the first U.S. election at a US average gasoline price of $4 a gallon," says one energy analyst.

Absent a Mideast crisis, oil prices have likely seen their 2012 highs, and Brent could easily slide to $100 or below before the end of the year.

The U.S. has the natural resources to one day stop importing OPEC crude oil, Boone Pickens, founder of BP Capital, told CNBC's "Street Signs" on Monday.

For the first time since the age of Reagan, the Republican Party is considering the gold standard.

Real estate developer Donald Trump blames President Obama for the rising price of oil, warning, "this country can never, ever recover" if oil prices continue to go up.