Morning Summary: Back in the days when I would put together “lesson plans” for the Marketing University at Ag Summit, I would sometimes throw in the weekly listing of days [...]

Morning Summary: What’s the first thing I notice about the commodity complex pre-dawn Tuesday? Many of the markets moved in in the opposite direction overnight of how they closed Monday. [...]

Morning Summary: As the curtain rises on this last week of February, the last week of meteorological winter, the commodity complex is generally seeing follow-through pressure from last Friday. The [...]

Morning Summary: Yes, today is another “Fed” Day. No, it’s not the one we usually talk about meaning the conclusion of the latest meeting of the US Federal Reserve, but [...]

Morning Summary: A look at Thursday morning’s temperature map and we see the extent of the latest polar vortex, if that’s what it’s being called these days. Freezing temperatures are [...]

Morning Summary: If you enjoyed Tuesday’s early morning markets, then you’ll like Wednesday’s as well given they are generally the same. Gold is green again, this time around the clock [...]

Morning Summary: “I read the news today, oh boy…And though the news was rather sad. Well, I just had to laugh…”. Those lines are from the Beatles song, “A Day [...]

Morning Summary: When you think of Valentine’s Day, what’s the first word that comes to mind? (And yes, for all of you out there who might’ve forgotten that Friday is [...]

Morning Summary: If August is the annual Dog Days of Summer, then it only makes sense that February, being six months down the road, should be considered the Dog Days [...]

Morning Summary: A quick check of markets early Wednesday morning shows there isn’t much to talk about. Given the chaotic situation the world is in at this time, that isn’t [...]

Morning Summary: It took a while Monday, but the US president eventually got around to putting the much-ballyhooed 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to the United States. [...]

Morning Summary: Now that the National Football League's Super Bowl has been played – with congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles – the United States can start to focus its attention [...]

Morning Summary: To quote the classic Chicago song, “Does anybody really know what time it is?” Even as a kid, the lyrics of this song made me think, with my [...]

Morning Summary: What will the US administration say today? That is the question. As we’ve watched play out over the past few weeks, markets continue to come unhinged at whatever [...]

Morning Summary: We’ve reached another Wednesday, the first day of the new positioning week for Watson. What does this mean? As I’m getting accustomed to saying again, similar to between [...]

Morning Summary: It was interesting, but not surprising, to see the commentary following Monday’s volatile session across most market sectors. On the US side of the border, the theme was [...]

Morning Summary: To no one’s surprise, the US president announced 25% tariffs against Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10% tariffs on China Saturday afternoon. The top two reasons I [...]

Morning Summary: Let me start today with an admission: I too have to relearn the lessons from the past, most notably not to believe what I see in ag media. [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the commodity complex early Thursday morning and the Word of the Day[i]remains somewhat of a puzzle. Is it Tariffs? Or Freeze (the loan and grant [...]

Morning Summary: What should we expect with markets today? First and foremost, we have to keep in mind it is Fed Day, meaning the January meeting of the US Federal [...]

Morning Summary: As the news cycle goes, headlines are rolling into the January US Federal Open Market Committee meeting that begins today. There is a great deal of noise surrounding [...]

Morning Summary: As I watched the commodity complex open and trade Sunday, most markets in most sectors bathed in red, my Blink reaction was, “Somebody said something”. (Granted, it could’ve [...]

Morning Summary: There is one word to summarize week one of the latest US administration, and it’s the word I told you was headed for the United States like a [...]

Morning Summary: I ran the traps of the commodity complex a couple times Thursday morning and came to the same conclusion both times: The Softs sector continues to find the [...]

Morning Summary: I was going to start today’s Morning Commentary by mentioning markets were quiet overnight, but that wasn’t necessarily the case with many still showing solid trade volume through [...]