Morning Summary: I like the 1983 Eddie Murphy/Dan Akroyd/Jamie Lee Curtis movie Trading Places for a number of reasons. The movie makes a couple good points about commodity trading: The [...]

Morning Summary: Wednesday’s post-midterm election theme of “Blue Tsunami”[i] had me thinking all day about the classic Roy Orbison song, and beautifully haunting Linda Ronstadt version, “Blue Bayou”[ii]. What’s a [...]

Morning Summary: I turned in early last night, thinking the US mid-term election would take days, if not weeks, to be decided. But I had trouble sleeping, so got up [...]

Morning Summary: A topic that often comes up when visiting with my longtime friend and host of RFD-TV’s Market Day Report Tony St. James is “What Day is Today”. What [...]

Morning Summary: Well, we are here. We’ve reached mid-term election week in the United States, and according to some of the chatter, it is Y2K[i] all over again. According to [...]

Morning Summary: One of the markets I’ll be keeping a close eye on this last trading day of October, or All Hallows’ Eve Eve if you will, is the Nasdaq [...]

Morning Summary: I ran the traps of the various sectors of the commodity complex early Thursday morning; “not once, not twice, but thrice!”[i]. When all was said and done, I [...]

Morning Summary: Yes, we’ve reached Wednesday morning, meaning later this afternoon Fed Chairman Warsh will announce the Fed’s latest decision on interest rates. As I talked about in a Chart [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the quote screen early Tuesday morning and it seems markets have moved on from this past weekend’s presidential election in Brazil, turning the page to [...]

Morning Summary: For most of our lives we are told water is a necessity for life. And while that is likely true – after all, science is generally helpful, despite [...]

*I’m away from the studio Friday afternoon so there won’t be an audio version of Afternoon Commentary. Morning Summary: Yes, there is a lot of week left today, but a [...]

Morning Summary: As the old story goes, there are early birds and night owls, with every marriage tending to consist of one of each. The thing with early birds is [...]

Morning Summary: One discussion I have with myself[i] more frequently these days is if Market Rule #6 still holds true. Do fundamentals still win in the end? Tuesday afternoon I [...]

Morning Summary: During my conversation with Jesse Allen on Monday’s edition of Agriculture of America, he asked if conditions were right for another Black Monday event. I think so. Global [...]

Morning Summary: Somehow we made it through the weekend to Monday morning, meaning the US president did not hit the nuclear launch code – at least not that I’ve heard [...]

Morning Summary: Well, my friends, it was nice knowing you. All it took was a look at Friday morning’s headlines, and I immediately cranked up R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of [...]

Morning Summary: I’ll admit, after a first running of the traps of the various sectors of the commodity complex early Thursday morning, I seriously considered turning the quote screen off [...]

Morning Summary: As the overnight hours ticked by, the quiet of Tuesday night became the stillness of an autumn morning early Wednesday. When I first fired up the quote screen, [...]

Morning Summary: My initial look across the commodity complex landscape pre-dawn Tuesday resulted in a one-word response, “Typical”. As in the overnight session looked to be nothing more than a [...]

Morning Summary: Though it is hard to believe, the US president and I actually have something in common. Neither of us has been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. The first [...]

Morning Summary: Yes, it is Friday, but before we get to the only prices that matter – weekly closes – markets will have to navigate the usual changes in mood [...]

Morning Summary: When I fired up the old quote screen Thursday morning, the first thing I saw was spot-month diesel sitting 19.5 cents higher. So, I flipped to my Energies [...]

Morning Summary: The first thing that jumped out at me pre-dawn Wednesday was the US dollar index had firmed overnight, adding as much as 0.50 and was sitting near its [...]

Morning Summary: The lead headline Tuesday morning read, “(The US president) allows cheaper, dyed diesel on highways to blunt historic fuel-cost spike ahead of midterms”. Digging into the piece, and [...]

Morning Summary: Welcome to another week everyone, the first full week of October. A look at the quote screen and we see the commodity complex is – well – it’s [...]