Morning Summary: I’ll admit, I was more interested than usual to fire up the quote screen and see what direction algorithms had taken the commodity complex overnight. After all, it [...]

Morning Summary: When I first fired up the quote screen Thursday morning and saw the Energies sector and Oilseed sub-sector both rallied overnight, my first thought was the US president [...]

Morning Summary: I wasn’t sure what to expect from markets early Wednesday morning, so I dawdled a bit over a second cup of coffee, checked the baseball box scores (Yes, [...]

Morning Summary: “Do you remember, the 21st night of September?” This was the question asked by Earth, Wind, and Fire back in 1978. A look at the quote screen early [...]

Morning Summary: As I watched the various sectors of the commodity complex open Sunday evening and night, a pattern started to develop. Both Metals and Energies were under pressure while [...]

Morning Summary: As I slowly made my way through the various sectors of the commodity complex Friday morning, things looked relatively calm. The US dollar index was showing a small [...]

Morning Summary: A couple things went through my mind while watching Fed Chairman Warsh announce a 25-basis point rate hike Wednesday afternoon. What stood out to me was the vote [...]

Morning Summary: Wednesday’s theme, at least pre-dawn, seems to be “more of the same”. Yes, it is Fed Day, meaning this month’s 2-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee [...]

Morning Summary: When I fired up the computer early Tuesday morning, the first page that came up was the last one I was watching Monday evening, the one showing me [...]

Morning Summary: I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for another 3-day holiday weekend. That way I wouldn’t have to try to make sense of markets pre-dawn Monday morning. [...]

Morning Summary: Friday’s session will be like a kid’s Christmas morning for members of the BRACE Industry. Recall BRACE stands for Brokers, Reporters, Analysts, Commentators, and Economists who never met [...]

Morning Summary: I suppose all we can do now is wait for US mid-term elections this coming November. After all, the US president has said fuel prices won’t come down [...]

Morning Summary: If you are a fan of War, military or trade, then Wednesday’s financial media front page is for you. The lead story continues to be the US president’s [...]

Morning Summary: By my count, the weekend just past is the last US 3-day holiday weekend of 2026 meaning this should be the last Manic Tuesday of the year. That [...]

Morning Summary: After a week like this one, and ahead of what is expected to be a volatile US 3-day holiday weekend, it’s good pre-dawn headlines can provide some comic [...]

Morning Summary: It surely is a sign of the times that the first thing I think about nearly every day is a morning bracer to prepare me for a look [...]

Morning Summary: If I was a newbie in the world of watching markets, a look at the quote screen pre-dawn Wednesday might’ve created a Blink reaction thinking things had changed [...]

Morning Summary: The turn of the calendar page from August to September brought with it a new season – meteorological autumn – but the markets remain the same. A pre-dawn [...]

Morning Summary: After Sunday afternoon’s headlines broke, those similar to Monday morning’s (slide 2) talking about, “U.S., Iran exchange strikes for first times since July as (the US president) threatens [...]

Morning Summary: I took a look at the social media site LinkedIn Thursday afternoon, and Susan Stroud had posted the perfect description of markets these days: “Start with a trade [...]

Morning Summary: My friend in the brokerage industry called late Wednesday to talk about the various markets. He was wondering what to tell his customers who wanted to trade…something, anything, [...]

Morning Summary: It was more of the same overnight through early Wednesday morning with the Energies sector under pressure while Grains continued to rally. Regarding the former, according to headlines, [...]

Morning Summary: One market I mentioned briefly in Monday’s Afternoon Commentary was coffee, as the December contract opened the week with a rally of nearly 6%. And while Dec is [...]

Morning Summary: As I watched the markets open Sunday evening and night, two in particular stood out to me: Corn and Wheat. While I’ll talk about the Grains sector in [...]

Morning Summary: We’ve made it to another Friday morning, with today’s headlines (slide 2) giving us a good idea of where we are at this time. I had to read [...]