Morning Summary: It was nice to take a few days off. My plan was to start this new week with a Welcome Back Kotter theme, but weekend happenings and headlines [...]

A Reminder: I will be out of the office following Tuesday’s Afternoon Commentary. See This Week’s Schedule in Quick Takes for more information on when I’ll get things caught up [...]

A Reminder: I will be out of the office following Tuesday’s Afternoon Commentary. See This Week’s Schedule in Quick Takes for more information on when I’ll get things caught up [...]

Morning Summary: Looking back at Thursday’s session, I wanted to wait until I had a chance to do some reading on what was happening at the US Environmental Protection Agency [...]

Morning Summary: Where the 3 Court Jesters (Natural Gas, Orange Juice, and Feeder Cattle) took center stage Wednesday, overnight through early Thursday morning saw return of the 3 Kings of [...]

Morning Summary: After a quick look at the latest 6-to-10-day weather forecast, I decided I better go chop down a tree for firewood next week. On the temperature side, most [...]

Morning Summary: Given how volatile Monday’s markets were, it isn’t overly surprising to see a number of sectors reversing course overnight through early Tuesday morning, turning around if you will, [...]

Morning Summary: Early Monday morning belongs to headlines generated by the US administration over the weekend, though the jury is still out on if there is any real meat on [...]

Morning Summary: There are a number of Friday mornings when I sit and stare at this blank piece of electronic typing paper, wondering how I’ll get it filled with Commentary. [...]

Morning Summary: The last time we spoke, I had put together Wednesday’s Afternoon Commentary while US Fed Chairman Powell’s post-FOMC meeting press conference was ongoing. I summarized some of the [...]

Morning Summary: It seems fitting this Wednesday morning, pre-dawn Fed announcement day, finds the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map glowing green. Almost as if it was acknowledging the fact inflation [...]

Morning Summary: Just to irk some folks in the commodity commentary industry this morning – something I don’t mind doing, as you know – I’m going to say the Energies [...]

Morning Summary: As I watched markets open Sunday evening and night, two in particular stood out to me. It was no coincidence they happened to be two of the 3 [...]

Morning Summary: Given today is Day 2 of the new month, and a number of markets have reversed course from Thursday, I thought it fitting to discuss the Turnaround Activity [...]

Morning Summary: One of the last headlines to hit the newswires in April was a minerals deal was struck between the United States and Ukraine. My Blink reaction was to [...]

Morning Summary: Well, we’ve reached the last morning. The end is here. It has been nice working with you. Wait a minute…My apologies. I misread the memo. It is only [...]

Morning Summary: There are mornings when I look at the quote screen, then at the blank piece of electronic paper on my computer and wonder how to fill the latter [...]

Morning Summary: It’s pre-dawn Monday morning, back to business after an eerily quiet weekend on the news front. Is it the calm before the storm? Possibly, as a look at [...]

Morning Summary: As I ran the traps of the various market sectors early this morning the word that kept coming to mind was “exhaustion”. However, I have to remember that [...]

Morning Summary: There is occasional market volatility, times when markets tend to get more active and make big moves. In some sectors of the commodity complex (Grains, Softs, sometimes Energies [...]

Morning Summary: We know gold is heavy. A look at a periodic table shows the gold element (Au) with an atomic mass of 196.97, outdistancing both silver (Ag) at 107.87 [...]

Morning Summary: You likely remember the quote from the movie “Forrest Gump” I’ve used for the title this morning (Stupid Is as Stupid Does). We can apply this to a [...]

Morning Summary: I hope everyone had a nice holiday. As we attended family event this past weekend, the one comment made to me in hushed tones was, “I wouldn’t want [...]

Morning Summary: One of the first things I noticed when checking markets early Thursday morning was a rally in Asian equities. I didn’t have to check the headlines, but did [...]

Morning Summary: As per my usual morning routine, I made myself a cup of coffee, fired up the quote screen, and did an initial running of the traps of the [...]