Morning Summary: Today can be a number of things, depending on 1) how it plays out and 2) how one chooses to view it. What we know for sure is [...]

Morning Summary: Those of us who were still young back in the late 1970s remember just how big the original Star Wars movie was. (Even though, as time went on, [...]

Morning Summary: While not quite husky weather, it is a bit on the cool side as the merry, merry, month of May gets under way. My Fargo friends are seeing [...]

Morning Summary: One of the lead headlines early Thursday morning read, “Brent oil hits wartime high as U.S. military to reportedly brief (the US president) on action against Iran”. The [...]

Morning Summary: It’s another day ending in “y”, meaning more of the same was seen in the commodity complex overnight, generally speaking. The Energies sector was mostly higher again, with [...]

Morning Summary: While there are a number of market sectors within the commodity complex, there are only a few we need to look at pre-dawn each day to tell us [...]

Morning Summary: After Sunday’s headlines were traded at the open yesterday evening and last night, not much changed through Monday’s early morning hours. The only significant move I see pre-dawn [...]

Morning Summary: I hope you put your bets in place Thursday afternoon on your predictive market website of choice. As I mentioned in yesterday’s Afternoon Commentary, with the major US [...]

Morning Summary: If you are keeping score at home, you’ve likely noticed we don’t need predictive market sites to guess which way markets are going to go nearly every day. [...]

Morning Summary: If we are honest with ourselves, we can admit the situation has gone beyond silly at this point. When I fired up the quote screen early Wednesday morning [...]

Morning Summary: It’s a Tuesday morning, meaning we are all familiar with the routine. What was down to start the week is generally higher early this morning and vice versa. [...]

Morning Summary: How many of you are familiar with a “news” site called The Onion? If you aren’t, The Onion is where one goes to find ridiculous headlines and “news” [...]

Morning Summary: If you think the title (More of the Same) and picture used as an illustration for today’s Morning Commentary, you have a good eye and/or memory. They are [...]

Morning Summary: It was unusually quiet overnight through early Thursday morning. A look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map shows the Energies sector leading the way with an overall [...]

Morning Summary: As I’ve said numerous times, my job is easy these days. It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see what will happen from day to day. As discussed [...]

Morning Summary: As I mentioned in Quick Takes earlier, today looks like it could be a 4-T morning. In other words, a Typical Turnaround Taco Tuesday could be ahead of [...]

*I’ll be away from the office studio the rest of this week so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Morning Summary: The commodity complex was showing [...]

*I’ll be away from the office studio the rest of this week so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Morning Summary: A look across the commodity [...]

*I’ll be away from the office studio the rest of this week so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Morning Summary: Any rational person who has [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the quote screen pre-dawn and markets remain uncertain over how Tuesday might play out. Will it be a typical TACO trade, with the US president [...]

Morning Summary: It’s interesting, coming out of the most recent holiday weekend in particular, that markets seem confused as to how to react to the latest threat from the US [...]

Morning Summary: To quote Doris Troy, “Just one look, that’s all it took…” One look at the quote screen early Thursday morning was all it took to understand the US [...]

Morning Summary: As I ran the traps of the commodity complex pre-dawn Wednesday, my Blink reaction was it was more of the same. Yesterday meant nothing. We have no idea [...]

Morning Summary: Before we get to the Grains sector, where industry talking heads will be obsessed with USDA’s Prospective Plantings report set for release at noon (ET), let’s take a [...]

Morning Summary: There was a lot going on in the overnight session, not surprising given the ever-changing global events. The bottom line was at is has been the past five [...]