Commodity Price Movement Recap Content Archive
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- May 15 Settlement Recap — Oil Surges as Iran Ceasefire Collapses
- May 18 Settlement Recap — Oil Rallies on Iran Discount, Soybeans Surge on China Pledge, Gold Consolidates Near $4,553
- May 19 Settlement Recap — Iran Strike Delay, Bond Rout Hit Oil and Gold; Grains Give Back a Slice
- May 20 settlement recap — Peace dividend tanks crude below $100; copper posts 5th highest close in history
- May 21 settlement recap — Iran deal snags on uranium, crude extends slide; corn exports surge 71% but grains fall anyway
- May 22 settlement recap — Warsh sworn in, Waller shocks hawks; oil recovers on Iran uranium deadlock; gold logs second weekly loss
- May 23 settlement recap — Iran MoU landed after the close; Trafigura pulls 51,000 tons of copper from LME
- US strikes Iran during Memorial Day weekend — Brent breaks $100 on return, WTI deepens losses to $93.89
- Iran deal optimism obliterates the Hormuz premium — WTI crashes 5.6% to $88.68, gold breaks below $4,500
- PCE stagflation data snaps gold's 5-day skid; WTI barely holds above $88 as Iran MOU awaits Trump sign-off
- Gold defies Warsh; WTI posts worst month since 2020 as Iran deal hangs on Trump
- Oil surges 5% as Iran deal collapses; gold falls on ISM shock; copper gains 2.6%
- Copper hits all-time record; Hammack fires first rate-hike warning under Warsh; grains slide for third session
- Iran strikes Kuwait airport; WTI tops $96 on third day of rally; Logan calls for rate hike; gold and copper retreat
- Ceasefire optimism wipes out oil's 3-day rally; grains hit contract lows; gold rebounds on jobless claims miss
- NFP 172K topples gold 200-day MA; all markets down
- Iran calls it off — for now; Aramco OSP cut exposes the real story
- Oil fell $3 while US strikes hit Iran — the Trump "deal in 2-3 days" trade
- CPI flipped the script: gold's worst day since June 5, oil fully reverses on Trump's "pay the price" escalation
- Gold enters a bear market: final settlements and the evening that changed the Iran calculus
- June 11, 2026 commodity settlement recap
- June 11, 2026 final settlements: Trump's Iran deal flips oil $8, gold bounces $187
- June 12, 2026 final settlements: gold +3% and oil −4% tell the same Iran story from opposite ends
- Oil hits a 3-month low as gold rallies — the Iran deal's split verdict
- Oil breaks $77, gold holds — Warsh opens Day 1
- Warsh snap: gold loses $77 as dot plot shifts hawkish
- June 18 settlements: oil bounces on Versailles, gold sinks on Warsh
- June 19 settlements: Gold cracks $4,200 EMA, oil rebounds on Vance's cancelled Iran trip, CBOT dark for Juneteenth
- June 22 settlements: Iran framework deal sends WTI below $74, gold snaps four-day slide at $4,209
- June 23 settlements: Gold breaks $4,200, copper crashes 3.8% as DXY hits 13-month high
- June 24 settlements: Gold crashes through $4,000 as Hormuz reopens, oil hits post-war low
- June 25 settlements: Gold reclaims $4,000 on PCE relief, crude bounces as Iran hits cargo ship near Oman
- June 26 settlements: Crude breaks below $70
- Weekly settlements: Oil loses the war premium