Afternoon Summary: How best to describe today’s market action? Well, it was indeed a Monday, the first trading day of the new month and Groundhog Day as the cherry on [...]

Afternoon Summary: Do you remember yesterday when I talked about how volatile the Metals sector had become. That was nothing compared to what we saw Friday. I received a message [...]

Afternoon Summary: My guess is most of you were too busy to keep a close eye on what happened in the Metals sector Thursday. Let me do my best to [...]

Afternoon Summary: As I mentioned in Quick Takes, the US Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed for short, voted to keep interest rates unchanged during its January meeting, the decision [...]

Afternoon Summary: A look at the long-term monthly chart for the US dollar index Tuesday afternoon and lyrics from the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic “That Smell” came to mind. Specifically, “Ooh, [...]

Afternoon Summary: Visiting with Jesse Allen, my friend and host of the Agriculture of America talk show Monday morning, and our conversation began with Jesse asking, “With all that is [...]

Afternoon Summary: We already knew Winter Storm Fern (Fear the Fern) sparked a buying frenzy reminiscent of Covid, but this mentality went beyond the grocery store to the commodity complex [...]

Afternoon Summary: These days, there are three things we can count as near certainties: Death, taxes, and gold and silver hitting new highs. (Notice I applied the Vodka Vacuity (there [...]

Afternoon Summary: A look at markets Wednesday afternoon and considering what has been said by the US administration both domestically and at the World Economic Forum in Davos today, and [...]

Afternoon Summary: Tuesday’s session played out largely as expected. After early morning financial television led with the teaser, “Sell America”, one of the first headlines I saw following the sharply [...]

Afternoon Summary: Honestly, I have no problem with anyone who has already checked out of this week’s market commentary and headed to their local watering hole for a shot or [...]

Afternoon Summary: Markets are starting to remind me of a rousing game of pickleball[i], only without the fun name. While Wednesday was driven by Watson, Thursday’s session found commercial traders [...]

Afternoon Summary: Watson was busy as a new positioning week got under way Wednesday. I’ll talk about the Grains sector in more detail shortly, but there were other markets that [...]

Afternoon Summary: There only a few items that stood out to me as Tuesday’s session headed for home. First and foremost, the silver market made a run at $90 as [...]

Afternoon Summary: I’ve had the opportunity to visit with a number of you since USDA’s midday data dump. The common theme has been a disbelief in the estimates released, and [...]

Afternoon Summary: Friday afternoon’s Barchart Futures Market Heat map is interesting in that four sectors of the commodity complex took the path higher to close out the week while the [...]

Afternoon Summary: I was visiting with a long-time friend in the ag media business earlier today, and as part of our conversation I mentioned how if we take all these [...]

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 [...]