Afternoon Summary: I apologize to those of you who celebrate the time honored[i] Earth Day each April 22, as I forgot to mention it in today’s Morning Commentary. So, here’s [...]

Afternoon Summary: I’m sure you are familiar with the old saying, “If you don’t like the weather in (insert name of state here), wait five minutes and it will change”. [...]

Afternoon Summary: Judging by the title of today’s Afternoon Commentary (General Galimatias), you may be thinking I’m set to spin another of my yarns loosely related to markets, this one [...]

Afternoon Summary: Here in the US Midwest, it is difficult to have much empathy for the folks who live and work in New York, including what used to be the [...]

Afternoon Summary: As I mentioned in today’s Morning Commentary, and my latest piece for Barchart, the doors seem to have been opened to increased “trader” activity via predictive market websites[i]. [...]

Afternoon Summary: Welp, there you go. The S&P 500 hit a new all-time high of 7,015 (as of this writing) Wednesday as long-term investors again take advice from Alfred E. [...]

Afternoon Summary: If I haven’t been clear in the past, let me say it again: This is all just a game being played at the highest levels. Not that it’s [...]

*I’ll be away from the office studio the rest of this week so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Afternoon Summary: The common theme during Friday’s [...]

*I’ll be away from the office studio the rest of this week so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Afternoon Summary: I’ve said many times of [...]

*I’ll be away from the office studio the rest of this week so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Afternoon Summary: As difficult as it might [...]

Afternoon Summary: It wasn’t until after I had posted today’s Morning Commentary that I found out April 7 was National Beer Day here in the US. (I have a hunch [...]

Afternoon Summary: Uncertainty. If I had to boil Monday’s markets down to one word, it would be uncertainty. Most markets traded either side of unchanged to open the week, with [...]

Afternoon Summary: What could happen the next three days? Anything. And what I mean by that is absolutely anything. There is no telling what will be said or done while [...]

Afternoon Summary: The best thing about this week is it is only four days, with Friday being another market holiday in the US. Given this, rather than Wednesday being just [...]

Afternoon Summary: It’s possible Tuesday’s session can be explained as simply as it was the end of the month and end of the fiscal quarter. This would partially explain the [...]

Afternoon Summary: Monday’s session is in the books, and in the Grains sector this means Watson is making its way to the gates for tomorrow’s flight. You could tell it [...]

Afternoon Summary: I know I said Thursday I wasn’t going to talk about Opening Day for Major League Baseball, but this is Friday, and to heck with it. Things are [...]

Afternoon Summary: Somewhere around midday a headline came out proclaiming, “(The US president) will announce actions to help U.S. farmers on Friday”. Uh-huh. Raise your hand if you’ve heard this [...]

Afternoon Summary: Recall from Wednesday morning when I talked about how the early market moving headline, the one that sent the Energies complex tumbling, had to do with the US [...]

Afternoon Summary: I saw a teaser/headline Tuesday I had never seen before, nor one I would’ve ever imagined outside of Mad Magazine[i]. “Quadruple amputee cornhole player fatally shoots man, authorities [...]

Afternoon Summary: Shortly after posting the Breaking News Quick Take Monday morning, the one talking about the US president saying a 5-day cease fire was in place, Ben sent me [...]

Afternoon Summary: A look at the quote screen Friday afternoon and a couple things jump out at me. First is what I call the Goldilocks Principle that says, “Daily charts [...]

Afternoon Summary: I sat staring at the blank piece of electronic typing paper for a couple hours, wondering how I was going to say the same thing in a different [...]

Afternoon Summary: As I was visiting with my friend Myra Saefong of MarketWatch about fertilizer, food, and fuel prices Wednesday she told me of breaking news regarding the Jones Act [...]

Afternoon Summary: What was the headline that drove markets Tuesday? It depends on what side of the US political aisle one sits on. According to the administration, the Strait of [...]