Economic Chart Spotlight: Global Monetary Policy Converges
The big focus this week is on whether the Fed will either hike rates, announce Quantitative Tighening (QT) aka balance sheet normalization, do both, or do...
U.S. Corn Futures Weekly Outlook: Stocks, Yields In Focus
December corn futures closed UP 1 ½-cents per bushel week-on-week, finishing at $3.56 ¾ on Friday.
Corn bulls continue to defend the $3.50 price support...
Macro Market Commentary: Faith Trumps Fear
With every market-moving tweet, promise, provocation and policy proposal, President Trump has changed the investing and trading landscape. Finance Twitter is but a petri dish...
U.S. Financial Markets Update: Uncertainty Creeps Back In
Optimists hope that government will eventually move on to tax reform, while pessimists worry that the Obamacare repeal-failure means tax reform is even less...
Market Insights: The Canadian Dollar, Crude Oil, and Rising Yields
This article was written with Craig Basinger.
This week we wrestled with what to focus on given the many big moves we have seen in...
Corn Futures Market Outlook: Bull vs Bear Tug-Of-War
July corn futures moved slightly lower this week, closing down 3 ¾-cents per bushel week-on-week, finishing on Friday (6/16) at $3.84.
Corn futures although...
Global Markets Update: Investors Follow The Drum Beat
The month of May continued to see stock market growth, with a backdrop of increasing political turmoil in the U.S. And the drum beat...
China’s May Manufacturing PMI Fails To Impress
China released it's May official PMI data, and overall the results are fairly benign. On the surface there wasn't much to change the current...
Global Markets Update: Investors Eye Chinese Economic Concerns
The past month has been chalk full of corporate earnings announcements in the U.S., and more political drama. Earnings were largely positive, but with the...
U.S. Corn Futures Weekly Outlook: Weather Watch!
July corn futures moved higher this week, closing up 4 ¼-cents per bushel week-on-week, finishing on Friday (5/5) at $3.70 ¾.
Corn futures higher weekly...
