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 [...]

Session Summary: As Thursday came to a close both cattle markets indicated a great deal of excitement over Lent coming to an end this weekend. By the looks of the [...]

Session Summary: A look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map Wednesday afternoon shows gold to be the second strongest commodity market of the day with a gain of 3.5%. [...]

Session Summary: With apologies to Buffalo Springfield, I’ve changed the words to their most famous song “For What It’s Worth”. Markets, particularly those in the Grains and Livestock sectors, were [...]

Session Summary: Monday was an interesting day. Not like last week’s market mayhem interesting, but rather the lack of chaos. A lot of markets stand out to me this afternoon, [...]

Session Summary: Given all that has happened this week, from the April round of the Goldman Roll to the tariff decisions coming from the Waffle House – I mean White [...]

Session Summary: This is fun, right? I’m talking about the US equities sector where, as of this writing, the three major indexes are – I don’t know what the correct [...]

Session Summary: “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.” My first edition of today’s Afternoon Commentary was finished by about [...]

Session Summary: As I mentioned this morning, I had the opportunity to do a number of interviews with some good friends in ag media. After finishing my conversations with Tony [...]

Session Summary: Around midday, I was asked WHAT I thought of Monday’s session. I had nothing and still have nothing. It’s days like today that cast a shadow over my [...]

Session Summary: (Softly, in the background, you hear the music of the “Love Theme from The Godfather”.) I thought of the acclaimed movies The Godfather (the original and Part II) [...]

Session Summary: Every business day, Barchart emails a newsletter (Barchart Brief) that discusses a variety of markets. Today’s edition was titled “We are all Gary today”, and for a brief [...]

Session Summary: During my appearance on RFD-TV Wednesday morning, my friend and host Tony St. James steered the conversation to two markets that have a lot in common, and nearly [...]

Session Summary: I almost wish everything I heard about today’s markets was followed by the obligatory, “April fools!” As some of what was being said was being relayed to me [...]

Session Summary: It’s time to turn the page from March to April, mostly, though there could still be some drama in the US stock indexes as Q1 of the 2025 [...]

Session Summary: Friday’s session offered up a wide variety of market happenings, hence the title, “A Smorgasbord”. If you are a fan of meltdowns, you likely appreciated what continues to [...]

Session Summary: I’ll say it again, today is MLB Opening Day, with games getting under way as we speak. I’m going to revise what I said this morning about how [...]

Session Summary: As I was thumbing through the various market sectors Wednesday afternoon, the same thought kept popping into my mind. Almost every page of my quote screen showed something [...]

Session Summary: Yes, this is March 25, and for lack of anything better to talk about this afternoon I’ll remind you there are only 275 days remaining until Christmas. Or [...]

Session Summary: I don’t know where I heard it first, but many decades ago when I was a young broker I was given the industry piece of advice, “Bulls become [...]

Session Summary: These are the kind of weeks that make retirement look a lot more attractive. As I said earlier this week, I’ve found myself saying, “I don’t know”, when [...]

Session Summary: Each year, the Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffet offers a challenge to the employees of Berkshire Hathaway. If one of them could put together a perfect bracket for [...]