Morning Summary: Just when I think I may have figured out how the game is played these days, it changes, forcing me to think again. The pattern has been, during [...]

Morning Summary: At Sunday night’s open, it looked like US markets were in for just another Manic Monday. As expected, weekend headlines were filled with talk of escalating fighting over [...]

Morning Summary: Bears seemed to be on the prowl in the commodity complex Thursday night through early Friday morning, though one has to wonder if they will retreat to their [...]

Morning Summary: For those old enough to remember network television – the days when all we had was ABC, CBS, and NBC – by the time summer rolled around all [...]

Morning Summary: As usual, I did a quick run through of the various sectors of the commodity complex early Wednesday morning. The US dollar index had strengthened overnight, while Financials [...]

Morning Summary: I, for one, am looking forward to a breakfast of Belgian waffles and Brussels sprouts Tuesday morning. However, my concern is the joy of the morning will be [...]

Morning Summary: It didn’t take long Sunday night to understand this was going to be another one of those weeks. A friend in the brokerage industry sent me a message [...]

Morning Summary: I’ve used Barchart’s stock photo titled “The White House at Sunset” a number of times, usually to depict fury coming from the inhabitant at the domestic or global [...]

Morning Summary: It’s time to see if the “corn’s as high as an elephant’s eye by the fourth of July”. Or maybe that’s just if one is in Oklahoma. It’s [...]

Morning Summary: Is it just me, or did June fly by? As we begin the last trading day of the month, financial interests are approaching the last day of the [...]

Morning Summary: The commodity complex was interesting coming out of the weekend with some sectors showing surprises, some not. Regarding the latter, given the headlines of the US president ramping [...]

Morning Summary: Back in 1968 the band Blood, Sweat, and Tears had the hit song “Spinning Wheel” that opened with the line, “What goes up must come down…”. I thought [...]

Morning Summary: Early Thursday morning shows us no real surprises in the commodity complex. Overnight trade saw the Indices (US stock index futures) post a strong rally, led by the [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the calendar shows that we passed the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and the official start of summer, last Sunday. However, maybe [...]

Morning Summary: After running through the various sectors of the commodity complex pre-dawn Tuesday, I turned to the piece of blank electronic typing paper to write today’s Morning Commentary. And [...]

Morning Summary: Grab yourself another cup of coffee and settle in for today’s markets. Not that the cup of coffee will help make sense of things. The latest headline contradicts [...]

Morning Summary: For those of you who might’ve forgotten markets are closed in the US Friday due to another holiday – Juneteenth. Given this, today – Thursday – could be [...]

Morning Summary: Welcome to another Fed Wednesday or given the situation as it is now we can safely say, “It’s Howdy Doody time!” New US Fed Chairman Warsh, aka the [...]

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 [...]