Morning Summary: Friday’s session will be like a kid’s Christmas morning for members of the BRACE Industry. Recall BRACE stands for Brokers, Reporters, Analysts, Commentators, and Economists who never met [...]

Morning Summary: I suppose all we can do now is wait for US mid-term elections this coming November. After all, the US president has said fuel prices won’t come down [...]

Morning Summary: If you are a fan of War, military or trade, then Wednesday’s financial media front page is for you. The lead story continues to be the US president’s [...]

Morning Summary: By my count, the weekend just past is the last US 3-day holiday weekend of 2026 meaning this should be the last Manic Tuesday of the year. That [...]

Morning Summary: After a week like this one, and ahead of what is expected to be a volatile US 3-day holiday weekend, it’s good pre-dawn headlines can provide some comic [...]

Morning Summary: It surely is a sign of the times that the first thing I think about nearly every day is a morning bracer to prepare me for a look [...]

Morning Summary: If I was a newbie in the world of watching markets, a look at the quote screen pre-dawn Wednesday might’ve created a Blink reaction thinking things had changed [...]

Morning Summary: The turn of the calendar page from August to September brought with it a new season – meteorological autumn – but the markets remain the same. A pre-dawn [...]

Morning Summary: After Sunday afternoon’s headlines broke, those similar to Monday morning’s (slide 2) talking about, “U.S., Iran exchange strikes for first times since July as (the US president) threatens [...]

Morning Summary: I took a look at the social media site LinkedIn Thursday afternoon, and Susan Stroud had posted the perfect description of markets these days: “Start with a trade [...]

Morning Summary: My friend in the brokerage industry called late Wednesday to talk about the various markets. He was wondering what to tell his customers who wanted to trade…something, anything, [...]

Morning Summary: It was more of the same overnight through early Wednesday morning with the Energies sector under pressure while Grains continued to rally. Regarding the former, according to headlines, [...]

Morning Summary: One market I mentioned briefly in Monday’s Afternoon Commentary was coffee, as the December contract opened the week with a rally of nearly 6%. And while Dec is [...]

Morning Summary: As I watched the markets open Sunday evening and night, two in particular stood out to me: Corn and Wheat. While I’ll talk about the Grains sector in [...]

Morning Summary: We’ve made it to another Friday morning, with today’s headlines (slide 2) giving us a good idea of where we are at this time. I had to read [...]

Morning Summary: “(The US president) threatens ‘Economic D-Day’ for Iran and ‘tremendous’ consequences for its backers”, reads the lead headline early Thursday morning. So, I guess the “peace deal” is [...]

Morning Summary: Given this week has played out generally according to schedule – starting with a Manic Monday and continuing with a partial Turnaround Tuesday – I was set to [...]

Morning Summary: Given the normal Manic Monday activity seen yesterday, I kept an eye out for a round of typical Turnaround Tuesday trade in the commodity complex overnight through the [...]

Morning Summary: Pour yourself another a cup of coffee (or tea, or whatever helps you get going in the morning) as we embark on another trading week. After watching markets [...]

Morning Summary: Since my friends at Barchart brought their Summer Road Show to Omaha on Tuesday, August 4, this little part of the world has seen a veritable monsoon season [...]

Morning Summary: I have a music playlist that I run most days while writing Morning Commentary. When I hit “Play” Thursday, the first song that came up was Bob Seger’s [...]

Morning Summary: Wednesday session is brought to you by a couple of Carls. First, as I mentioned earlier this week, today’s docket is filled with government numbers, “data” that is [...]

Morning Summary: I reversed the order of my usual morning routine Tuesday, this time looking at the headlines (slide 2) before running the traps of the various sectors of the [...]

Morning Summary: Welcome to a new week with a look at the quote screen showing us the commodity complex is basically more of the same. For those addicted to government [...]

I was unable to post Morning Commentary Wednesday morning due to a power outage over parts of west Omaha. We will see if power stays on long enough to do [...]