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 [...]

Afternoon Summary: I could rewrite the lyrics to the classic Eagles song “Take It to the Limit” to fit Monday’s session, but there is no point. Markets are just one [...]

*A reminder I will be out of the office for the rest of the week following Thursday’s Morning Commentary. However, I will have my phone with me while traveling. Afternoon [...]

Afternoon Summary: If I had to choose the word most used to describe markets Tuesday it would be “Confusion”. A couple examples: “Crude oil falls on confusion over (US President’s) [...]

Afternoon Summary: As we go through Monday’s Afternoon Commentary we need to keep a couple key points in mind, points that could be viewed as conflicting. First, there is what [...]

Afternoon Summary: If you are of a certain age, you might remember the Soul Asylum song from 1992, “Runaway Train”. This somewhat depressing piece included, as part of its refrain, [...]

Afternoon Summary: Around midday, my friend in the brokerage industry called with a simple question, “What is happening?” A couple things: First, I appreciate he applied Rule #5, It’s the [...]

Afternoon Summary: Where the first two days of this week were relatively one-sided across the commodity complex, Wednesday’s session had something for everyone. A number of markets trade both sides [...]

Afternoon Summary: There are so many markets I could talk about Tuesday, with many of them easily worthy of filling the entire 800 words or so I use to populate [...]

Afternoon Summary: In a piece I posted for Barchart this morning, I asked if there were any market surprises coming out of the weekend. As a general rule there was [...]

Afternoon Summary: It was an interesting last trading day of meteorological winter for the commodity complex. Before I took a closer look, I had the feeling most sectors would be [...]

Afternoon Summary: The AI stories continued throughout the day, with enough of them still worded bearishly enough to trigger algorithm selling, ironically enough. With more than an hour remaining in [...]

Afternoon Summary: There was a lot of green on the screen across the commodity complex this afternoon. If it was nothing more than first day of the new positioning week [...]

Afternoon Summary: If you lost interest in Tuesday’s session somewhere around midday, you weren’t alone. However, I checked out shortly after the open, challenging myself to adhere to the Wilhelmi [...]

Afternoon Summary: I was reminded of the classic Chicago song, “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” as I watched markets play out Monday. My interpretation of the song [...]

Afternoon Summary: As I said in Friday’s Morning Commentary, we needed to watch markets closely heading into the weekend to see what country the self-proclaimed President of Venezuela might use [...]

Afternoon Summary: Similar to Thursday morning, it seems we are living in the sitcom Three’s Company from the late 1970s and early 1980s. (You weren’t expecting that reference, were you?) [...]

Afternoon Summary: If we go back to last Friday, so far the past calendar week has brought us a classic Friday the 13th, Presidents’ Day in the US, the Lunar [...]

Afternoon Summary: A look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map this first afternoon of the Lunar New Year holiday is telling. Only one true commodity sector is in the [...]

Afternoon Summary: My friend in the brokerage industry called me Friday morning. He had been reading my puzzlement over the recent surge in trade volume nearly across the board in [...]

Soybeans: I’m going to change the batting order completely this afternoon, moving the soybean market to lead off instead of the usual Opening Summary. Why? Because of a headline I [...]

Afternoon Summary: The commodity complex had a number of interesting sectors Wednesday – no, not Grains – with both Metals and Energies staying in the spotlight. In Metals, while March [...]

Afternoon Summary: At noon (ET), the US ag industry throng awaiting manna from heaven was instead given a big ol’ nothingburger from USDA. I’ll go over the numbers in the [...]

Afternoon Summary: A look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map Monday afternoon tells us a familiar story: The Commodity complex was mostly in the green, led by Metals with [...]