Morning Summary: The end of another busy week is near as we only have to navigate one more trading session. In the Grains sector, this means more attention should be [...]

Morning Summary: I’ve studied the commodity complex early Thursday morning, and there doesn’t seem to be a consistent theme. The US dollar index has been on both sides of unchanged, [...]

Morning Summary: Maybe it’s just me, someone who enjoys a good piece of pie any time of any day[i], but when I hear all the hubbub surrounding the release of [...]

Morning Summary: For the fans of any and all government data, the April Producer Price Index (PPI) numbers will be released Tuesday morning at 8:30 (ET). If one happens to [...]

Morning Summary: Now that USDA’s May round of supply and demand nonsense is out of the way, we can go back to focusing on real market information, right? Not exactly, [...]

Morning Summary: Well, we’ve reached the annual landmark day when USDA releases its fourth first look[i]at 2024 planted area and production guesses. Of course it isn’t hyped that way by [...]

Morning Summary: After Wednesday’s Red Cs (commodity complex) flood, a look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map early Thursday shows it to be a mixed morning. At first glance [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map early Wednesday morning shows most commodity complex sectors in the red. The only one trading overnight not glowing a [...]

Morning Summary: Early Tuesday morning finds a lot of markets showing varying degrees of Turnaround activity. Does it mean anything? No, not really. As we’ve seen countless times, particularly of [...]

Morning Summary: It’s pre-dawn Monday, meaning another week stretches out in front of us like a mostly blank canvas. On the financial side, things should be quieter this week following [...]

Morning Summary: If we test our collective memory and go all the way back to Thursday’s Afternoon Commentary, I talked about how the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map was glowing [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the Grains sector shows markets heading north while attention to the weather has turned south, as in South America. I was asked in an interview [...]

Morning Summary: Welcome to the first day of May, historically known as May Day[i], though not to be confused with the emergency call “Mayday!”, though I have seen the latter [...]

Morning Summary: Tuesday is a lot of things. Not only is it first notice day for May futures, not a huge development but can add a bit of intrigue to [...]

Morning Summary: Outside of the agriculture sector, where the focus was on weekend rains across the US Plains and Midwest, the most common headline read something like this, “A Key [...]

Morning Summary: Yes, today can be called a Fonda Flip Friday as it is expiration day for May options in the Grains sector. What do I mean by a Fonda [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the National Weather Service forecast map for Thursday shows the start of the latest rain system is supposed to fall mainly on the US Plains. [...]

Morning Summary: The Grains sector was taking a quiet breather early Wednesday morning as traders brace for rain systems forecast to move across the US Plains and Midwest over the [...]

Morning Summary: Early Tuesday morning finds the commodity complex in a similar position to Monday afternoon, most notably with the Grains sector higher and Metals lower. Gold continued to tumble [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map early Monday morning shows us most commodity sectors were in the red pre-dawn, with grains sitting at a cumulative [...]

Morning Summary: The first headline I saw after firing up the computer early Friday morning read, “Oil prices jump 3% on reports of explosions in Iran”[i]. A quick check of [...]

Morning Summary: There’s something about a Thursday. The next weekend is a little larger on the horizon, but we still have to navigate a couple days’ worth of trade and [...]

Morning Summary: You have to be of a certain age to remember Captain Kangaroo’s farmer sidekick Mr. Green Jeans. I obviously had this character in mind as I looked at [...]

Morning Summary: My morning routine was the same as usual meaning I made some coffee, turned on the radio, and fired up the quote screens. The first song I heard [...]

Morning Summary: As this past weekend progressed, it seemed US Tax Day was going to be the least of the concerns to start the new week. Saturday evening/Sunday morning saw [...]