Pork Weekly Export Sales and Shipments
The latest weekly export sales and shipment update showed 2026 calendar-year export shipments of U.S. pork at 1,357.3 1,000 MT (blue column) through Thursday, October 08, a point in the [...]
December Gold Weekly
With the US president seemingly poised to push the nuclear button this weekend (see Friday's Morning Commentary), it is a good time to take a look at the weekly chart [...]
Going Green
Afternoon Summary: Did Thursday’s session eventually make sense, as compared to what we saw overnight? Maybe, at least a little. (Or maybe it was the lingering effects of this morning’s [...]
December Live Cattle Daily – Revised
9:30 I took another look at December live cattle, this time using the short-term daily chart (slide 1) rather than the daily close only (slide 3). Also, I tightened the [...]
Export Sales Announcement
USDA announced export sales Thursday morning: 330,000 mt of 2026-27 soybeans to China 283,450 mt of 2026-27 soybeans to unknown destinations I still see this as what provided support to [...]
Producer Price Index: September 2026
The September Producer Price Index (PPI) numbers were released Thursday morning, along with weekly jobless claims for the week of October 10. Producer Price Index at 1.3%, more than twice [...]
US Drought Monitor
The latest weekly US Drought Monitor update, for the week ending Tuesday, October 13 (slide 1) was little changed from the previous week, despite the remnants of Hurricane Isaias tracking [...]
December HRW Wheat Daily
As mentioned in Wednesday's Afternoon Commentary and again in today's Morning Commentary, yesterday's close saw the December HRW contract complete a bullish spike reversal on its daily chart. What does [...]
Making Sense of the Morning
Morning Summary: I’ll admit, after a first running of the traps of the various sectors of the commodity complex early Thursday morning, I seriously considered turning the quote screen off [...]
Seeing Red
Afternoon Summary: During my conversation with Ben this afternoon, he mentioned how red was the color of the day. I pulled up the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map, and he [...]
July Soybeans Reownership
A friend in the brokerage industry asked if I was looking at a re-ownership strategy in July soybeans. Without him saying, I knew why the question had come up. There [...]
Export Sales Announcement
USDA announced sales of 470,000 mt of 2026-27 soybeans to China. This is part of the unknown support in the soybean market that has been rallying contracts off session lows, [...]
Consumer Price Index: September 2026
As if we need to be told inflation is a problem, the September Consumer Price Index numbers were released Wednesday morning. Consumer Price Index at 0.6% as compared to the [...]
The Stillness of an Autumn Morning
Morning Summary: As the overnight hours ticked by, the quiet of Tuesday night became the stillness of an autumn morning early Wednesday. When I first fired up the quote screen, [...]
Diesel Fuel Daily
Today's Chart of the Day is a follow-up to what I said in Afternoon Commentary. Despite all the attempts at manipulation and manufactured selloffs by the US president, the diesel [...]
That’s What Friends are For
Afternoon Summary: While there wasn’t much in the way of market moving news early this morning, a check of the headlines Tuesday afternoon – well – let me start with [...]
