Commodities

With the price of Brent crude at a four-year low, all eyes are on how OPEC will react at its crucial meeting tomorrow. In the meantime, Premier's Chris White highlights the stocks to benefit from lower prices.

Simon Redmond, director at Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, and Stuart Elliott, director at Platts, tell Investment Week how the future of global oil supply will be impacted as geopolitical risk threatens oil producers, and the bounty of US shale oil...

The price of gold has reached a four-year low today after heavy selling in Asia and the impact of a strong US dollar.

Smith & Williamson's Tineke Frikkee is backing oil producers and miners, as global uncertainty creates value opportunities in the sector.

The sharp slides in oil prices seen since the summer could continue unabated until the commodity's chief trade body OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) is finally forced to take action, investors have said.

Natural resources

Gold miners to shine again?

Mining giant Rio Tinto has rebuffed a takeover bid from rival Glencore in August which would have created the world's largest listed mining group.

Fracking hit the headlines recently when the UK government gave the go-ahead to a major expansion plan which will see firms bid for onshore oil and gas licences, but will it have the same success as it did in the US?

J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Neil Gregson is backing a pair of oil producers in Iraqi Kurdistan as a contrarian buying opportunity.