Afternoon Summary: A frequently asked question during my media appearances Wednesday was what the convergence of choice and select beef is trying to tell us. While the spread tends to [...]

Afternoon Summary: It was quite a day for the silver market as the March futures contract hit a high of $81.485, up $4.83 cents (6.3%) and within sight of session [...]

Afternoon Summary: I was going to go with a different graphic for today’s Afternoon Commentary, but one look at the latest Barchart Futures Market Heat Map changed my mind. It [...]

Afternoon Summary: Though I can’t find evidence of it actually being a thing, I would’ve sworn there was an old saying in baseball, “The first pitch gives you good idea [...]

Afternoon Summary: As I talked about in my latest Weekly Column, the historic moves made by a number of markets during 2025 will be long remembered. And now, as we [...]

Afternoon Summary: The Metals sector didn’t give those with a case of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) much of a chance. I’m familiar with the conversations that likely went on [...]

Afternoon Summary: It was a bearish day in Metals with a look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map showing the sector down an average of 6.4%. With only uranium [...]

Afternoon Summary: As I wrote for the opening of my Weekly Column on December 23, 2024: Anyone who has seen the classic holiday cartoon “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is familiar [...]

*I’m away from the studio this week so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Afternoon Summary: As the adage goes, “A picture paints a thousand words”. [...]

*I’m away from the studio this week so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Afternoon Summary: About once a week these days, we talk about how [...]

Afternoon Summary: It’s possible your Friday afternoon cocktail is nothing more elaborate than a nice Gin and Juice, equal parts gin (a good London dry with plenty of juniper) and [...]

Afternoon Summary: A look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map Thursday afternoon shows more sectors in the commodity complex decked in green than wearing red. Leading the way was [...]

Afternoon Summary: The holiday playlist switched from the Burl Ives classic “Silver and Gold” to the even more traditional “Silver Bells”. At least according to the Barchart Futures Market Heat [...]

Afternoon Summary: My thought was to stick with the theme of Ruby Tuesday, a great Rolling Stones song by the way, hence the title of today’s Afternoon Commentary, “Another Red [...]

Afternoon Summary: It was a tough day to be a bean Monday. I’ll talk more about the soybean market in a moment but let me start by focusing on some [...]

Afternoon Summary: A look at Friday afternoon’s Barchart Futures Market Heat Map and my Blink reaction was, “Holly Berries”. No, I don’t mean the Academy Award winning actress of a [...]

Afternoon Summary: Somewhere, the holiday classic is playing over a speaker system, “Silver and gold. Silver and gold. Everyone wishes for silver and gold. How do you measure it’s worth? [...]

Morning Summary: I actually found some of the post-rate cut announcement interesting on CNBC. Hosts of program covering the widely expected event talked about how it was like offering a [...]

Afternoon Summary: There’s an old saying of, “Elephant’s memory”, meaning someone has an “excellent, long-term memory and rarely forgets details…”. On the other end of the spectrum, according to myth[i], [...]

Afternoon Summary: With the December meeting of the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting set to get under way Tuesday and conclude Wednesday with the expected announcement of a 25-basis [...]

Afternoon Summary: It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact the first week of December is already over. And what a week it was. It started with the US [...]

Afternoon Summary: The commodity complex was showing a lot of green Thursday afternoon, an interesting development given the US dollar index also firmed. The greenback added as much as 0.18 [...]

Afternoon Summary: The US dollar index didn’t wait for next week’s expected Federal Open Market Committee interest rate cut as it dropped as much as 0.54 Wednesday and was sitting [...]

Afternoon Summary: My friend in the cattle industry sent me his daily update on cash feeder cattle indexes before my appearance on RFD-TV Tuesday morning. Index prices jumped post-Thanksgiving holiday [...]

Afternoon Summary: As green as the commodity complex was Friday afternoon, recall every sector showed a cumulative gain, it was nearly as red to open the new week, month, and [...]