Morning Summary: Take a moment to make yourself a cup of coffee, or tea, or whatever you use to get your day started. There’s no hurry. The commodity complex isn’t [...]

Morning Summary: The commodity complex didn’t change much from Sunday evening through Monday morning. A look at the quote screen pre-dawn shows the Energies sector is still solidly in the [...]

Morning Summary: It is widely accepted that a fitting definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Speaking of which, a look [...]

Morning Summary: An initial check of the commodity complex, and subsequent reading of headlines, showed me there wasn’t much change regrading two of the three major talking points of the [...]

Morning Summary: Was the commodity complex what I expected to see pre-dawn Wednesday morning? Not necessarily, but that’s what keeps this job interesting. Given the headlines Tuesday afternoon of the [...]

Morning Summary: When I turned in last night, the commodity complex was quiet. My thought at the time was that markets could stay that way given the US president was [...]

Morning Summary: I remember when a weather radar map like what we see early this morning, the second Monday of meteorological summer, complete with rain falling over Chicago, would have [...]

Morning Summary: There wasn’t a lot of green in the commodity complex early Friday morning with the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map (slide 2) showing only 2 sectors not donning [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map early Thursday morning shows us what happens these days when headlines don’t happen. The commodity complex is about as [...]

Morning Summary: In case you’ve grown numb to the ebb and flow of the Energies sector due to predictable changes in not necessarily the Truth Social media posts and subsequent [...]

Morning Summary: The irony of today’s Commentary title (The Rain in Spain) is that Tuesday’s weather shows clear skies across Spain. Why, then, did I choose today’s title? Because of [...]

Morning Summary: We have indeed turned the calendar page to June – saying a fond farewell to the not so merry, merry month of May in the process – meaning [...]

Morning Summary: It’s pre-dawn Friday morning as I write this Commentary. The month of May is finally, mercifully, set to come to an end and frankly, from a personal point [...]

Morning Summary: The lead headline on CNBC.com Thursday morning reads, “Oil jumps 2.5% after Iran says it targeted U.S. airbase following fresh American strikes”. Does anyone remember when the US [...]

Morning Summary: My initial check of the various sectors of the commodity complex showed me something interesting early Wednesday morning. Most markets were relatively quiet. We haven’t seen this for [...]

Morning Summary: As the US comes out of its latest 3-day holiday weekend, any one of us with two brain cells rubbing together could’ve written Tuesday morning’s headlines. Particularly after [...]

Morning Summary: It’s early Wednesday morning, with dawn’s first light still an hour or more away as I fired up the computer and started to fill in this blank piece [...]

Morning Summary: Truth be told – and truth is so hard to come by these days – we didn’t have to wait until Tuesday for our Chicken TACOs to create [...]

*I’m away from the studio morning so there won’t be an audio version of Morning Commentary. Morning Summary: As I mentioned in the Sunday Night Markets Quick Take, Watson was [...]

Morning Summary: One look at markets early Friday morning and my thoughts for what all this – Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, the unlikely passage of year-round E15 sales in the US [...]

Morning Summary: At one point during the overnight hours, I decided to check markets to see how the first day of meetings between the US president, along with his Band [...]

Morning Summary: We’ve seen a bit of everything so far this week, and it is only pre-dawn Wednesday morning. A look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map and we [...]

Morning Summary: If Monday was a day for commodity complex bulls, Tuesday is scheduled to bring a holiday-like atmosphere for those in the BRACE[i] Industry who’ve never met a government [...]

Morning Summary: As I mentioned in the Sunday Night Markets post, there were few surprises to start the new trading week. The ‘news’ headline cycle continued over the weekend, most [...]

Morning Summary: The fact it is pre-dawn Friday means another weekend awaits us at the end of today’s trading session. However, before we get there we have to, as Red [...]