A question that has come up more frequently of late is whether or not I think the commodity sector is in a supercycle. Some of the interest has to do [...]

It’s the last day of February, meaning the last day of meteorological winter. In honor of the day, Major League Baseball has scheduled its first games of Spring Training for [...]

A look at the calendar shows North America has one more week of winter before meteorological spring begins on March 1. A year ago at this time, the world was [...]

I spent this past weekend putting together a market presentation I’ll be giving, in person, in Hutchinson, Minnesota later this week. As I was working, it dawned on me to [...]

“There’s a train a-coming…” One of the hot topics this past week was news that the CME Group had announced its plans to increase “both spot-month and all-months combined speculative [...]

January has come and gone, and what a month it was. History books will forever talk about the attempted overthrow of democracy early in the month, while a mere two [...]

“Now that I have your attention, soybeans could also fall back to less than $10.” Some of you may remember, but that was the opening line to my first weekly [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about Ernest Hemingway lately. Every time I look in the mirror I’m reminded of The Old Man and the Sea. When I watch the news [...]

There are points in time that for the rest of our lives we remember where we were and what we were doing. For me it is watching Richard Nixon’s resignation [...]

There will be a lot of negative pieces posted talking about how terrible 2020 was. The problems are well known, with the deaths tied to Covid-19 staggering. But there were [...]

I’m bullish soybeans. I wanted to get that out of the way right off the bat, because I’ve had a history of not being bullish soybeans, though the evolution of [...]

“How confident are you?” The question was asked as part of a conversation with a friend regarding my Friday morning Chart of the Day, “December 2021 Corn: Change Could Be [...]

I started this past week off with Monday’s Morning Commentary titled, “It Should Be an Interesting Week”, and as we watched the days unfold through Friday’s close that's exactly how [...]

The 2020 US Presidential Election looks to have been decided, though not conceded, with Joe Biden the next President of the United States. Looking at totals from the Associated Press, [...]

King Corn has been on my mind a lot lately and judging by the questions I’ve received from many of you (a big ‘Thank You’ to all) the market is [...]

Based on the meteorological calendar that has fall running from September 1 through November 30, a span of 91 days, we officially reached the Halftime of Autumn at roughly noon [...]

As many of you will recall, Newsom’s Rule #5 states: It’s the what, not the why; meaning when we are faced with trying to figure out a market, the most [...]

It was a year ago to the day (October 4) that I got into a spirited debate with other analysts on the merits of using futures spreads to better understand [...]

As you’ve likely heard or read me say before, we usually have CNBC on the television here in the basement office of Darin Newsom Analysis, Inc. And yes, as is [...]

Since the week of August 24, 2020, the three major US stock market indexes have seen these results: The Nasdaq has dropped 902.35 points, or 7.7% The S&P 500 has [...]