Commodities desk · Evening edition · Monday, November 2, 2026
Crude's slide on US-Iran diplomacy reports took Brent down about 8%, though Ryanair's chief still expects fuel costs to push European fares up as much as 20% next year.
Gold fell 3.29% on October 30, 3.7 times its typical daily move. Over the window, Palladium -22.12% trailed.
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Gold fell 3.29% on October 30, 3.7 times its typical daily move. Over the window, Palladium -22.12% trailed.
The picture on the morning edition's share card, drawn from the numbers stored with that edition, written Nov 2, 2026, 9:35 AM EST. The evening edition above replaced it as this day's latest edition.
Energy still sets the tone, and the direction has turned harder since this morning. Crude fell further into the close, with Brent down about 8% and WTI under $97, after CNBC Top News reported that Washington and Tehran were both pursuing diplomacy. Gasoline and diesel slid with it. Metals edged higher and grains were mostly flat to softer. Nothing supplied says the diplomacy reports amount to a settlement, so the conflict premium that came out could return.
Fuel is where the slide landed hardest, with gasoline down nearly 8% and diesel down more than 5%. Energy shares followed, and Exxon fell about 4% with its sector. Metals told a quieter story. On the Rhine, the water at Kaub read 22 cm, and the Mississippi at St. Louis stood at 3.1 ft. In grains, soybeans and sugar slipped while coffee rose.
The human side today is Ryanair's CEO Michael O'Leary telling CNBC that European airfares could rise up to 20% next year as fuel costs climb, with the airline's fuel bill set to jump by $2.2 billion. Cheaper crude today does not reach ticket prices yet. For anyone holding real assets, the day suggests that energy and metals answered different news, and that a tech sell-off did not drag commodities along with it.
- WTI fell 7.60% to 96.21 and Brent 8.02% to 104.33 after reports the US and Iran were both pursuing diplomacy
- Gasoline fell 7.99% to 2.90 and diesel 5.43% to 4.42, following crude lower, with gasoline demand down 3.8% over four weeks
- Natural gas slipped 0.97% to 2.87, with US storage 0.4% above its seasonal normal at 3,724 bcf
- Silver rose 2.70% to 50.60, back above 50 but still down 15.93% over the month
- Gold rose 1.45% to 3,955.60 after Friday's losses, with no supplied headline for the bounce
- Copper gained 0.86% to 6.54 while platinum rose 0.46% and palladium fell 1.80%
- Corn finished flat at 447.75, with 56% rated good to excellent against a 60% five-year average
- Wheat edged up 0.41% to 606.00 and is down 11.27% on the month, with winter wheat planting 1 point behind normal
- Soybeans fell 1.48% to 1,216.00 and sugar 1.86% to 19.00, while coffee rose 2.42% to 294.15
- Brent at 104.33 sits about 8.1 above WTI at 96.21, narrower than Friday's gap of about 13.5
- Diesel at 4.42 stays far above gasoline at 2.90, and gasoline fell more than diesel today
- Gold gained 1.45% against silver's 2.70%, which narrows the gold-silver ratio after last week's widening
- Oil's conflict premium came out on diplomacy talk and can return, so energy exposure carries two-way risk
- Metals bounced but remain well below month-ago levels, so downside-aware sizing still fits
- Crude, metals and grains answered different news, so real-asset exposure is several separate bets and not one hedge
Brent erased its late-October climb in one session as US-Iran diplomacy reports spread, ending near early-month levels.
Gasoline fell below every close in this window, taking back Friday's jump and more as crude dropped.
WTI dropped below 100 and then below 97, losing most of October's gains within a single session.
The numbers behind it
Top to bottom: Upstream driver, Commodity, Where it goes
- Upstream driver
- Physical flow
- Divergence
Every move here is measured between two stored daily closes, so the reading belongs to a session rather than to a time of day. This block is cut at the 2026-11-02 session. Anything named as a driver comes from a stored series and never from a headline.
- Broad Commodities (DBC)32.46USD-3.42%
- Diesel and Heating Oil (ULSD)4.422USD/gal-7.70%
- Gasoline (RBOB)2.900USD/gal-12.44%
- WTI Crude Oil and Diesel and Heating Oil (ULSD)DivergenceCrude against diesel: -7.36% against -7.70% today, and the spread between them sits 2.9 standard deviations from its own average over the last 60 stored sessions.
- US gasoline product supplied+5.4%US gasoline product supplied is 8,808 MBBL/D for the week ending 2026-10-30, +5.4% against 8,358 in the prior published week.2026-10-30
- US distillate inventories-3.5%US distillate inventories is 99,259 MBBL for the week ending 2026-10-30, -3.5% against 102,824 in the prior published week.2026-10-30
- Trucking fuel costfrom Diesel and Heating Oil (ULSD)The trucking and rail paths from diesel are the price of the FUEL and not the price of moving the load. A freight rate is a different number, and where one is drawn on this page it is labelled as a rate.
- Rail fuel costfrom Diesel and Heating Oil (ULSD)The trucking and rail paths from diesel are the price of the FUEL and not the price of moving the load. A freight rate is a different number, and where one is drawn on this page it is labelled as a rate.
- Gold3,969.60USD/oz+1.81%
- Silver50.720USD/oz+3.31%
- Copper6.543USD/lb+1.32%
- Gold and SilverDivergenceGold against silver: +1.81% against +3.31% today, and the spread between them sits 2.5 standard deviations from its own average over the last 60 stored sessions.
Across the complex
- Silver fell 5.93% against gold at 3.29%, and the spread is 3.0 standard deviations from its 60 session average. Silver is half industrial, so haven and factory demand separated.
- Crude is up 19.82% over a month while gasoline is flat at -0.08%. Gasoline's 3.99% gain today moved its margin against crude, and it sits beside the 6.9% weekly fall in gasoline product supplied.
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