Clearing the view on energy's 2013 outlook
Although the supply outlook is increasingly positive, global demand questions remain for oil, natural gas and other energy products.
Feb. 1, 2013

Up or down? Interest rate outlook could be either or both
With the fiscal cliff and other events on the horizon, interest rates are poised to move.
Dec. 1, 2012

Platinum, Palladium Markets Tally Deficits for 2012
Much lower supplies and lower volumes of autocatalyst recycling will move the platinum market from surplus to deficit in 2012, according to Johnson Matthey in a “Platinum 2012 Interim Review”, released today.
Nov. 13, 2012

Grains outlook: After the big drought
As the harvest wraps up and next year approaches, big questions abound regarding the future of the grain and livestock sectors.
Nov. 1, 2012

SNL Financial Buys Analyst Metals Economics Group
Financial information provider SNL Financial, Charlottesville, Va., has moved into the metals and mining sector by acquiring Metals Economics Group, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The acquisition makes metals and mining the fifth vertical market for SNL.
Oct. 18, 2012

Energy’s countdown to the election
With the election almost upon us, traders and analysts weigh in on how its outcome may affect the currently oversupplied energy market as well as any potential geopolitical repercussions, which have been a major factor in recent years.
Oct. 1, 2012

CFTC Silver Probe Still Continuing after 4 Years
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission should shortly conclude its four-year-old investigation of the silver market but has gone beyond the schedule that was the wish of Bart Chilton, the commissioner who originally called for the probe.
Sept. 24, 2012

Don’t Expect Too Much from Gold, says Van Eeden
The reality for gold bulls may fall short of their expectations of ever-increasing prices that run ahead of gold supplies, says a self-described gold bug who forecast the initial run-up of gold at the turn of the millennium but who now finds himself in the bear camp for bullion.
Sept. 24, 2012

All eyes on euro’s slow-motion train wreck
With pressures on the euro filtering into outlooks, the U.S. dollar is maintaining its safe haven status.
Sept. 1, 2012

Phil Burgert is an editor and writer with more than 30 years of experience in business, technology and general journalism. He specializes in coverage of metals and other material, environmental coverage and manufacturing technology control and industrial networking topics. He has been based in Chicago for the past decade after spending five years as a daily trade newspaper foreign correspondent in London and Düsseldorf. He has also worked on other technology publications in New York and Chicago and has had other reporting positions in Texas, Missouri, Kansas and Georgia. Burgert has both bachelors and masters degrees in journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

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