Morning Summary: The first thing I thought of when I looked at the quote screen pre-dawn Friday was something my friend likes to say, “There is a lot of week [...]

Morning Summary: In the grand scheme of things, early Thursday morning finds the commodity complex in a similar position to where it was yesterday at this time. Though this time [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the Barchart Futures Heat Map early Wednesday morning shows it to be a quiet Wednesday morning. All sectors in the commodity complex are within the [...]

Morning Summary: As I ran the traps of the commodity complex early Tuesday morning, the pattern I found was most markets in most sectors were showing red to start the [...]

Morning Summary: As this past weekend progressed, I kept checking national radar maps and what I saw was rains over much of the US Midwest. In days gone by, weather [...]

Morning Summary: Immediately after firing up the quote screen Friday morning and seeing the rally in the Grains sector, my Blink reaction was, “Who died?”. But a quick search of [...]

Morning Summary: As I was making my first round of coffee this morning, a check of the weather told me it was 17°(C)/63°(F) in Omaha with a mild north breeze [...]

Morning Summary: A look at today’s weather forecast, not to mention Wednesday’s early morning radar, and one would be forgiven if they expect the Grains sector to be under pressure [...]

Morning Summary: A look at today’s weather forecast and most of the US Plains and Midwest are expected to see rain Tuesday, with the day turning stormy for parts of [...]

Morning Summary: Here we are, another Monday morning[i], this one marking midsummer, and no it’s not a night’s dream. If the last thing you saw before shutting things down Sunday [...]

Morning Summary: Well, we’ve reached the end of another week. Where last week felt like one of the longest holiday-shortened weeks I could remember, this one seems to have flown [...]

Morning Summary: Early Thursday morning finds another rain system moving across Nebraska into Iowa. Later this morning the next weekly US Drought Monitor map will be released and based on [...]

Morning Summary: George[i], my young friend from Greece, sent me a message early this morning (early afternoon Athens time) pointing out how Grains and Cotton could see a “Turnaround Wednesday” [...]

Morning Summary: It’s a simple statement, one that has been around the Grains sector as long as I can remember, and one I thought of again this morning as I [...]

Morning Summary: Early Monday morning again shows us the Grains sector is made up of markets that are weather derivatives at heart. As I talked about in my latest Weekly [...]

Morning Summary: Here we are, pre-dawn July 3, and depending on how one looks at US history it's either the morning of the eve of Independence Day or the morning [...]

Morning Summary: After all that has happened the first two days of this week, I sat for a long time staring at this blank piece of electronic typing paper early [...]

Morning Summary: After putting together my Monthly Investment Newsletter early Tuesday morning, the conclusion I came to was most markets didn’t change during the month of June. The cash indexes [...]

Morning Summary: Today truly is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last. Being a Monday, it is the first day of the week, albeit from a market [...]

Morning Summary: Does any of this sound familiar to you? “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” (They aren’t, but they do ignite the flames of inflation.) “The Phase [...]

Morning Summary: As discussed in today’s Chart of the Day, the US dollar index continued to stink – I mean sink - overnight through early Thursday morning. The greenback hit [...]

Morning Summary: During one of our recent travels, I tuned into an oldies station and Kenny Rogers’ classic “Lucille” happened to come on. This is one of those songs when [...]

Morning Summary: The overnight through early Tuesday morning markets had a sponsor: Orange Julius. What a surprise. In other news, the US president announced a cease fire between Iran and [...]

Morning Summary: Today’s Morning Commentary is brought to you by some friends of mine. Not that they are sponsoring this segment, but rather their questions and comments set the conversational [...]

Morning Summary: As I look at this weekend’s forecast, filled with heat advisories across the US Plains and Midwest, I’m reminded of two things: One, it’s summer, it’s supposed to [...]