Morning Summary: It’s a Tuesday morning, meaning we are all familiar with the routine. What was down to start the week is generally higher early this morning and vice versa. [...]

Morning Summary: How many of you are familiar with a “news” site called The Onion? If you aren’t, The Onion is where one goes to find ridiculous headlines and “news” [...]

Morning Summary: If you think the title (More of the Same) and picture used as an illustration for today’s Morning Commentary, you have a good eye and/or memory. They are [...]

Morning Summary: It was unusually quiet overnight through early Thursday morning. A look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map shows the Energies sector leading the way with an overall [...]

Morning Summary: As I’ve said numerous times, my job is easy these days. It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see what will happen from day to day. As discussed [...]

Morning Summary: As I mentioned in Quick Takes earlier, today looks like it could be a 4-T morning. In other words, a Typical Turnaround Taco Tuesday could be ahead of [...]

*I’ll be away from the office studio the rest of this week so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Morning Summary: The commodity complex was showing [...]

*I’ll be away from the office studio the rest of this week so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Morning Summary: A look across the commodity [...]

*I’ll be away from the office studio the rest of this week so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Morning Summary: Any rational person who has [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the quote screen pre-dawn and markets remain uncertain over how Tuesday might play out. Will it be a typical TACO trade, with the US president [...]

Morning Summary: It’s interesting, coming out of the most recent holiday weekend in particular, that markets seem confused as to how to react to the latest threat from the US [...]

Morning Summary: To quote Doris Troy, “Just one look, that’s all it took…” One look at the quote screen early Thursday morning was all it took to understand the US [...]

Morning Summary: As I ran the traps of the commodity complex pre-dawn Wednesday, my Blink reaction was it was more of the same. Yesterday meant nothing. We have no idea [...]

Morning Summary: Before we get to the Grains sector, where industry talking heads will be obsessed with USDA’s Prospective Plantings report set for release at noon (ET), let’s take a [...]

Morning Summary: There was a lot going on in the overnight session, not surprising given the ever-changing global events. The bottom line was at is has been the past five [...]

Morning Summary: While market moving headlines are changing faster than diapers at a daycare where the kids were accidentally served prune whip, eventually Friday the spotlight will turn toward the [...]

Morning Summary: Given today is the official Opening Day to the 2026 US Major League Baseball season, I thought about going with my annual “Take Me Out to the Ball [...]

Morning Summary: What is it like trading markets in the Energies sector these days? Let me put it this way: The calmest market by daily percent change is natural gas, [...]

Morning Summary: One of the leftover headlines from Monday, one I didn’t include in Tuesday’s Headlines Quick Take, came from the CNBC website, “Is this the (US president) ‘TACO’ trade [...]

Morning Summary: One of the best market headlines I saw over the weekend came from John Kemp, former energy reporter for Reuters and now head of the JKempEnergy newsletter, “Brent [...]

Morning Summary: The commodity complex was interesting overnight. A look at Friday morning’s Barchart Futures Market Heat map (slide 2) shows the complex was nearly evenly split between sectors in [...]

Morning Summary: As we take to the roads this spring and summer, or head out to the field, we need to be sure to give credit where credit is due [...]

Morning Summary: Early Wednesday afternoon, US Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will step to the microphone and announce the Fed fund rate will stay unchanged for the time being based on [...]

Morning Summary: It is indeed St. Patrick’s Day, and to paraphrase The Simpson’s Kent Brockman, “a day when everyone is a little bit Irish, except for…” (I’ll let you look [...]

Morning Summary: As I talked about in my latest Weekly Column (The Obscenity Test), given the latest domestic headlines it is not surprising the US president is increasing the war [...]