Calling It
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: 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 [...]
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 [...]