RJO Futures

It would be an understatement to say the coffee and sugar markets have seen better days. At $95, coffee futures have reached their lowest point since December 2005. And sugar has fared worse, falling to the $10 handle for the first time since March 2000. You can see the historical downtrends in the...

The summer of 2018 saw seismic changes hit the agricultural markets in the form of tariffs and counter-tariffs from the ongoing U.S.-China trade war. While September ushers in a new harvest for growers, it’s far from a clean slate. As the price tag from the trade conflict grows, other forces...

Following a tumultuous 2017, WTI crude oil circa 2018 has managed to do something it hadn’t done in three years: breach $70. This year even saw crude accomplish the arguably more difficult feat of remaining above the $60 for the better part of a year, something not seen since the commodity...

Oil prices moved higher by more than 2 percent Monday as investors and traders reacted to reports that supply disruptions in Canada and Nigeria helped push oil production below consumption levels for the first time in two years. Meanwhile, analysts at Goldman Sachs who developed a reputation as...

It's not fun to be a gold-and-silver investor.   Gold settled Friday at $1,244.10 an ounce, 50 cents higher on the day but down 3.4 percent for the week. It was gold's worst weekly loss in 10 weeks. For the month, gold is off six percent and down 25.8 percent for the year. Silver was off 7.2...