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 [...]

Morning Summary: There are likely a number of you who, like me, stayed up most of the night pondering the fate of the world[i]. As expected, the war between Israel [...]

Morning Summary: One of the issues with being out of the office most of Monday is that the usual series of days starts to blend together. After pouring my cup [...]

Morning Summary: Well, the world is still turning, as far as I know early Monday morning. That means we not only made it through last Friday (the 13th), but the [...]

Morning Summary: There’s an old saying in markets about defining a “Dead Cat Bounce”: Even a dead cat will bounce if you drop it from far enough. Yes, it’s a [...]

Morning Summary: After I posted today’s Chart of the Day, a mid-month look at the long-term monthly chart for the US dollar index, I did a headline search to see [...]

Morning Summary: Sometimes Morning Commentary writes itself given what markets did overnight and headlines flowing across the news wire. Other times, like this morning, it takes me 30 minutes to [...]

Morning Summary: It’s difficult to stay focused on markets these days, given all that is happening across the country. There is much I want to say, but this isn’t the [...]

Morning Summary: Given all that was happening on both US coasts over the weekend, it was somewhat surprising to see markets were generally quiet overnight through early Monday morning. Both [...]

Morning Summary: June 6, 1944: The Longest Day, the Day of Days, D-Day. The day when the Allies launched Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy being the beachhead to the [...]

Morning Summary: Thursday morning’s Barchart Futures Market Heat Map (slide 2) shows a lot of green. In fact, the only sectors of the commodity complex not showing cumulative gains was [...]

Morning Summary: After running the traps of the various market sectors early Wednesday morning, I largely came up empty. What I mean by this is there wasn’t much happening with [...]

Morning Summary: That thing that doesn’t happen happened again overnight as a number of markets reversed course from Monday through early Tuesday morning. Turned around, if you will. The most [...]