Morning Summary: There is an old figure of speech that says, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too”. According to Wikipedia, this is also called an idiomatic proverb, [...]

Morning Summary: As I looked at the quote screen early Tuesday morning, a couple questions came to mind: Question #1: Did Watson wake up and smell the coffee, figuratively speaking? [...]

Morning Summary: The New York Times runs a daily word game called Wordle. The object of the game is to guess the computer generated 5-letter word, that changes each day, [...]

Morning Summary: As I said in Wednesday’s Morning Commentary, this week has been like running in molasses. But here we are, finally reaching Friday morning, and the one thing I [...]

Morning Summary: Though the Grains sector has received most of the attention this week, the more exciting sector has been Livestock. At Wednesday’s close October live cattle were up nearly [...]

Morning Summary: I don’t know about you, but to me this week seems to be running in molasses. Maybe it’s because every day has been the same; Cattle markets screaming [...]

Morning Summary: A quick check of the various sectors in the commodity complex showed it to be a quiet Tuesday morning with a little Turnaround activity thrown in for good [...]

Morning Summary: A check of markets early Monday morning and a couple things stand out to me: First, the US made it through another weekend. That isn’t a given like [...]

Morning Summary: The turn of the calendar page to August means North America has moved into the Dog Days of Summer. Speaking as one with a birthday during August, parties [...]

Morning Summary: Though it is early Thursday morning, the last day of July, as a good friend likes to say, “There is a lot of month left today.” A number [...]

Morning Summary: Heading into the penultimate trading day of July, the stage will be crowded with markets fighting for the spotlight. Most of the attention will be on the financial [...]

Morning Summary: The latest US Federal Open Market Committee meeting gets under way Tuesday, and as it begins the various markets are telling an interesting story. Recall from Monday’s Afternoon [...]

Morning Summary: It’s going to be a busy week. From Sunday night through early Monday morning we saw the Grains sector trade this past weekend’s weather before turning the spotlight [...]

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 [...]