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 [...]

Morning Summary: A friendly reminder to all of you in the US: Today, April 15, is lovingly known as Tax Day, the day when folks have to either file their [...]

Morning Summary: According to reports, the US president caved again on tariffs, following last week’s major backstep with a Sunday afternoon announcement that electronics and smartphones will be exempt as [...]

Morning Summary: You probably have to be of a certain age to understand the title of today’s Morning Commentary (Ruh Roh Raggy)[i], but it’s the first thing I thought of [...]

Morning Summary: When I added the title for today’s Morning Commentary (The Morning After), I was thinking of the Maureen McGovern song from back in 1973. What I had forgotten [...]

Morning Summary: Maybe it’s a result of all that has happened the past week and a half, with more nonsense on the docket before we reach this Friday’s close, but [...]

Morning Summary: I have a couple television appearances Tuesday morning with some long-time friends in ag media. I’ll first be talking with Tony St. James on RFD-TV (8:15 CT), followed [...]

Morning Summary: Lo and behold, according to the US administration, an even 50 countries called over the weekend to talk reduction in tariffs, some even wanting to go to 0%. [...]

Morning Summary: Now that one of the largest sales tax hikes in US history has settled in, it’s time to turn our attention to weather. At least for those interested [...]

Morning Summary: This has been quite a week. Monday saw the release of USDA’s quarterly Grain Stocks and Prospective Plantings reports, creating the usual amount of hullabaloo from the industry’s [...]

Morning Summary: Where Tuesday was All Fools’ Day, also known as April Fools’ Day, Wednesday can be viewed as the shortened A Fool’s Day. Just about every country who trades [...]

Morning Summary: Yes, it is indeed April 1, fondly known as April Fools’ Day[i], or All Fools’ Day, when one has to think twice before believing anything that is said [...]

Morning Summary: We’ve reached the last day of March, meaning we have a busy day ahead. Not only is it a USDA data dump day, with both quarterly Grain Stocks [...]

Morning Summary: Friday morning’s Barchart Futures Market Heat Map reminds us the reality of geopolitics trumps the ongoing fun of Major League Baseball’s opening weekend. After taking a shot of [...]

Morning Summary: Please allow me a moment to get nostalgic, for today is Opening Day for Major League Baseball. It is the only day of the season when fans of [...]

Morning Summary: It was another quiet night for the commodity complex in general with the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map leaning more toward red than green pre-dawn. The outlier is [...]

Morning Summary: As I was running the traps of the various market sectors this morning, and glancing through the overnight news, the Bob Seger song “Still the Same” came on [...]

Morning Summary: A pre-dawn look at the quote screen shows markets to be as far away from the normal “Manic Monday” activity as one can be. After last week - [...]

Morning Summary: What a week it has been. Again. It seems every day brought more volatility to markets, yet the US administration was eerily quiet. For those of you who [...]

Morning Summary: As you might’ve heard, the US college basketball tournament sold as March Madness is already under way with play-in games, for both Women and Men, though the latter [...]