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 [...]

Morning Summary: My guess is most of you have had fun at a Thirsty Thursday event sometime in your life, and some of you may have been in New Orleans [...]

Morning Summary: It has been a busy month so far. Things got rolling, literally, with the Goldman Roll from Friday, March 7 through Thursday, March 13. This was immediately followed [...]

Morning Summary: “Top of the morning to ye on this gray, drizzly afternoon. Kent O’Brockman live on Main Street, where today everyone is a little bit Irish, except of course, [...]

Morning Summary: The markets are what they are, driven by the same old same old seemingly every morning. The US administration is what it is, says what it says, and [...]

Morning Summary: It was a case of “déjà vu all over again”[i] early Thursday morning. After an initial look at markets, and seeing the Grains sector was higher, I assumed [...]

Morning Summary: After an initial look at markets Wednesday morning, the first thing that crossed my mind was the question, “What did the US president say now?”. This was immediately [...]

Morning Summary: I’m going to ruffle some feathers in the industry, intentionally I might add, with the first sentence of this Commentary: The US dollar index is showing signs of [...]

Morning Summary: I kept an eye on headlines over the weekend, for what that’s worth, and a couple things stood out to me. First, Justin Trudeau stepped down as Canada’s [...]

Morning Summary: As has become standard the last 6 weeks, I started this morning with a Google search of the word “Tariffs”. This time around the clock there was no [...]

Morning Summary: I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of talking about certain things and certain people. After all, that’s the goal of some individuals[i], as sad as that [...]

Morning Summary: There really is only one word for the global trade game that continues to go on, and it isn’t the one folks continue to tell me – Negotiations. [...]

Morning Summary: This morning’s headlines say it all. From the Wall Street Journal: 25% Levies on Canada, Mexico Take Effect. Reuters: China hits US agriculture, says won’t be bullied by [...]

Morning Summary: Welcome to the first full trading day of Spring. As you recall, I follow the meteorological calendar so once it struck midnight Saturday morning, the new season had [...]

Morning Summary: While it’s still pre-dawn across most of North America as I write this, there is a green glow far on the horizon. Is it the Northern Lights? It [...]

Morning Summary: As we approach the end of another month, the commodity complex was solidly mixed overnight. What stood out to me is a sector that has been strong – [...]

Morning Summary: Back in the days when I would put together “lesson plans” for the Marketing University at Ag Summit, I would sometimes throw in the weekly listing of days [...]

Morning Summary: What’s the first thing I notice about the commodity complex pre-dawn Tuesday? Many of the markets moved in in the opposite direction overnight of how they closed Monday. [...]

Morning Summary: As the curtain rises on this last week of February, the last week of meteorological winter, the commodity complex is generally seeing follow-through pressure from last Friday. The [...]

Morning Summary: Yes, today is another “Fed” Day. No, it’s not the one we usually talk about meaning the conclusion of the latest meeting of the US Federal Reserve, but [...]

Morning Summary: A look at Thursday morning’s temperature map and we see the extent of the latest polar vortex, if that’s what it’s being called these days. Freezing temperatures are [...]

Morning Summary: If you enjoyed Tuesday’s early morning markets, then you’ll like Wednesday’s as well given they are generally the same. Gold is green again, this time around the clock [...]