Session Summary: Late Thursday afternoon the US dollar index found itself more than 0.60 lower after falling as much as 0.66 from Wednesday’s close and 1.18 from its early high. [...]

Session Summary: When I look at Wednesday’s close, particularly in the Grains sector, I can only smile and laugh. As I’ve said before, I spend little to no time on [...]

Session Summary: As it turned out, Tuesday’s big news story was – as a good friend in the cattle industry put it – a steaming pile. Feel free to add [...]

A Reminder: I will be out of the office following Tuesday’s Afternoon Commentary. See This Week’s Schedule in Quick Takes for more information on when I’ll get things caught up [...]

A Reminder: I will be out of the office following Tuesday’s Afternoon Commentary. See This Week’s Schedule in Quick Takes for more information on when I’ll get things caught up [...]

Session Summary: Though there are some market sectors that haven’t closed as of this writing, I’m calling it a week. Given everything that has happened, I know Weekly Analysis will [...]

Session Summary: Imagine being a contestant on the television show Jeopardy, back in the day when the late, great Alex Trebek was the host, and one of the categories was [...]

Session Summary: I often talk about the 3 Kings of Commodities – Gold, Crude Oil, and Corn – but the 3 Court Jesters took over Wednesday’s session. When I talk [...]

Session Summary: Tuesday is a lot of things. In the United States, it is a day for Tacos. I’m not sure if the neighbor and sovereign country to the north [...]

Session Summary: Were markets in nearly every sector volatile Monday? Yes. But in the grand scheme of things it was a simple case of S.S.D.D. – Same “Stuff” Different Day. [...]

Session Summary: As the clock winds down toward the end of another week, markets remain mixed on what they are trying to tell us[i]. Starting with the US dollar index, [...]

Session Summary: One of the topics my friend Michelle Rook and I talked about at length on her Markets Now program Thursday morning was the irresistible force known at the [...]

Session Summary: The US Federal Open Market Committee left the Fed fund rate unchanged at the conclusion of its 2-day meeting Wednesday afternoon. I haven’t seen or read a recap [...]

Session Summary: Carly Simon was spot-on with the opening lyrics to her song “Anticipation”, “We can never know about the days to come. But we think about them anyway.”[i] A [...]

Session Summary: As I mentioned in Monthly Analysis, the orange juice futures market completed a bullish reversal on its long-term monthly chart during April. Early May has seen this Softs [...]

Session Summary: Did you know the cotton market was frozen? As it looks Friday afternoon, that seemed to have been the issue with the market for the last number of [...]

Session Summary: If Thursday is any indication, May is going to be a fun month. I guess I should say, another fun month. As I made my way through Monthly [...]

Session Summary: We are counting down toward the last half-hour of the final trading session in April, and as I said in Morning Commentary all eyes should be on the [...]

Session Summary: Tuesday was strange. I spent the middle part of the day writing my latest Weekly Column, not paying much attention to markets. After my piece had been posted, [...]

Session Summary: There was a lot going on to start the week, but almost flying under the radar was the continued rally in live cattle. A friend in the industry [...]

Session Summary: Similar to what I said in Morning Commentary, markets in general seemed to take a breather to close out the week. It’s understandable given all that happened this [...]

Session Summary: Shortly after the close of Thursday’s session, I joined Michelle Rook for today’s edition of Markets Now. As you know, I always enjoy visiting with Michelle. She knows [...]

Session Summary: As I was visiting with my friend and host on RFD-TV Tony St. James Wednesday morning, it struck me that three commodity markets tied closely to the US/China [...]

Session Summary: I’m not going to call today’s market activity typical Turnaround Tuesday. But if we are being honest, that’s exactly what happened. What stood out to me this afternoon [...]

Session Summary: As of this writing the US dollar index was down 0.88 after falling as much as 1.31 early in Monday’s session. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was [...]