Morning Summary: Early Wednesday afternoon, US Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will step to the microphone and announce the Fed fund rate will stay unchanged for the time being based on [...]

Morning Summary: It is indeed St. Patrick’s Day, and to paraphrase The Simpson’s Kent Brockman, “a day when everyone is a little bit Irish, except for…” (I’ll let you look [...]

Morning Summary: As I talked about in my latest Weekly Column (The Obscenity Test), given the latest domestic headlines it is not surprising the US president is increasing the war [...]

*A reminder I will be out of the office for the rest of the week following Thursday’s Morning Commentary. However, I will have my phone with me while traveling. Morning [...]

Morning Summary: A show of hands to start the day: How many actually believed the not necessarily the Truth Social media post that announced the US war in Iran was [...]

Morning Summary: In case you were wondering what happened late in Monday’s session that carried into the overnight session and Tuesday morning, it was another social media post, this one [...]

Morning Summary: It was about this time of year four years ago. While traveling around the US Midwest and Plains, particularly across what are known as Red States, when stopping [...]

Morning Summary: If you liked Thursday’s session, then you’ll also get a kick out of what the quote screen has to show you early Friday morning. A quick glance at [...]

Morning Summary: As usual, we can look at the markets to tell us what happened since we last visited. As Wednesday drew to a close there were a couple issues [...]

Morning Summary: There is nothing like the smell of bacon frying first thing in the morning. I have watched enough cooking shows to know that bacon comes from the underside [...]

Morning Summary: The commodity complex was strong, nearly across the board overnight through early Tuesday morning. With geopolitical instability ramping up – the US president warned the “war”[i] in Iran [...]

Morning Summary: Welcome to the first trading day of the spring season. This past weekend could’ve been made even more difficult if it included the annual “Spring Forward” event of [...]

Morning Summary: It is indeed Friday morning, the last trading day of the week and month, and in the Grains sector, the quarter. More than that, though, once we clear [...]

Morning Summary: As I scanned financial news headlines early Thursday morning, there was something different about the day. The name that won’t be mentioned here, the one designed to be [...]

Morning Summary: If you are keeping track, we are down to the final four mornings of meteorological winter, meaning the spring season is growing larger on the horizon. As I [...]

Morning Summary: As you know, I’ve been mentioning my late friend and mentor Gary Wilhelmi often recently, mostly in regard to one of the things he taught me, something I [...]

Morning Summary: It’s pre-dawn Monday morning. Over the weekend the Winter Olympic torch was passed from Italy to France before being extinguished for four years, and as far as I [...]

Morning Summary: It is still pre-dawn Friday in Omaha, Nebraska, near the center of the United States. However, a look at a world clock and we see it is early [...]

Morning Summary: The 1993 movie Groundhog Day was profound, in a way, as it seems each day during the month of February is more of the same. Particularly after Punxsutawney [...]

Morning Summary: Just as Tuesday afternoon’s Barchart Futures Market Heat Map was glowing red, a look at Wednesday morning’s Map shows us the commodity complex was nearly all green. While [...]

Morning Summary: Happy New Year everyone! No, this isn’t a case of déjà vu, or Groundhog Day, but rather Tuesday is the first day of China’s Lunar New Year holiday. [...]

Morning Summary: While US markets are closed for yet another pointless holiday, this one celebrating presidents of the past, global markets continue to register concern over the present president. One [...]

Morning Summary: Happy Friday the 13th everyone. You may recall, I’m one of the lucky ones born on a Friday the 13th - some would say that explains a lot [...]

Morning Summary: With another US 3-day holiday weekend fast approaching, let’s use the various markets and sectors of the commodity complex to set our movie watching schedule. The first movie [...]

Morning Summary: Some days are easier than others. This morning, whilst the coffee was brewing, I ran the traps of the markets in the various sectors of the commodity complex, [...]