Commodity Futures Forecasts: May 6, 2016 - May 13, 2016

 | May 08, 2016 07:45PM ET

This article aims to provide price forecasts for commodity futures for May 13, 2016. The table below shows the weekly commodity futures prices in US dollars over the period from April 08, 2016 to May 06, 2016 (commodity exchanges data) and forecasted period - May 13, 2016 (author’s calculations).

The commodities are classified and placed in alphabetical order. The commodity metrics and names of exchanges are provided.

Forecasted values: increase in green; decrease in red. Forecasts are projected with an Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model based on weekly historical data. It is advised to use forecasted values for identifying the short-term price trends over the period firstly.

The significant positive changes are expected for Lean Hogs (3.66%), Rough Rice (3.51%), WTI Crude Oil (3.09%), Soybean Meal (-5.79%), Silver (-3.31%), Soybeans (-3.06) will likely close in “red” on May 13, 2016.

On the group level, only Meats (2.11%) and Energy (0.31%) commodities are expected to grow by the end of the next week.