Commodities

Following a scheduled meeting in the deserts of Doha, Qatar on Sunday, global oil markets will have more clarity about where some of the world’s biggest producers stand on their willingness to help ease the global supply glut that’s plagued the market for nearly two years.

Oil futures pared some of their losses after data from Baker Hughes showed that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for crude fell by 3 to 351 as of Friday.

CME Group Inc will shutter its New York trading floor at year's end due to low volume, closing options pits for metals and oil a year after most futures pits met their end.

The bankruptcy of Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private coal producer, puts an exclamation point on the industry’s struggles and their ripple effect.

Peabody Energy, the world's largest privately owned coal producer, filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection on Wednesday in the wake of a sharp fall in coal prices that left it unable to service a recent debt-fueled expansion into Australia.

China's exports in March returned to growth for the first time in nine months, adding to further signs of stabilization in the world's second-largest economy that cheered regional investors.

Oil prices jumped on Tuesday, but some in the market say there could be a downside risk to a possible production freeze on the horizon.

No. 3 U.S. railroad CSX Corp said on Tuesday that lower freight, in particular a 31 percent drop in coal volumes, had hurt its first-quarter profit and still expected coal to weigh on earnings throughout 2016.

A woman alleging gender bias at a prestigious Silicon Valley venture capital firm testified that she couldn't turn back the advances of a male co-worker with whom she'd later have an affair because of her injuries from an accident on a trip to Germany.

Jurors in a sex discrimination trial against one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firms will hear a second day of testimony from the woman behind the high-profile gender bias lawsuit.

The Federal Reserve is slated to release minutes of last month's meeting today, clarifying the central bank's decision to stand pat on interest rates.

With fears about the U.S. economy looming, “The New Case for Gold” Author James Rickards weighed in on Donald Trump’s comments about a potential recession.

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Gold rose on Thursday as a drop in equities boosted its appeal as an alternative asset, heading for its biggest quarterly gain in nearly 30 years as expectations that the Federal Reserve would press ahead with interest rate hikes receded.

The dollar was on its best run in almost a year on Thursday, pressuring commodities and shares after yet another Federal Reserve official talked up the chance of more than one hike in U.S interest rates this year.

Global oil prices fell as much as 4 percent on Monday on concerns a six-week market recovery has gone beyond fundamentals, as U.S. crude stockpiles continue to mount and Iran maintains little interest in a global production freeze.

The Fed-induced energy bubble is bursting, a bubble that helped mask weaknesses in the economic recovery.

Despite there being a bigger surplus in 2012 to 2013, the price of oil back then did not plunge as much or as fast as it has since the summer. What gives?

The argument for owning physical gold in my mind is very simple.  All you have to do is look at what is going on in the world. 

Asian stock markets climbed Tuesday after Fed officials tried to soothe fears over the world economy and investors hoped for stabilization in weak China factory data.