Corn Futures Outlook: Weighing Brazil’s Record Production
May corn futures for 2017 moved sharply lower this week, closing down 16 ½-cents per bushel week-on-week, finishing on Friday (3/10) at $3.64 ¼....
Market Update: Federal Reserve Signals March Rate Hike
The S&P 500 Index (INDEXSP:.INX) rallied for the sixth week in a row and the Dow Industrials crossed the 21000 level for the first...
U.S. Corn Futures Weekly Market Outlook – March 5
May corn futures moved higher this week, closing up 10-cents per bushel week-on-week, finishing on Friday (March 3) at $3.80 ¾.
On Tuesday, May corn...
U.S. Corn Futures Weekly Review: 2017 USDA Ag Outlook
March corn futures moved lower last week, closing down 4 ¼-cents per bushel week-on-week, finishing on Friday (2/24) at $3.64. March corn futures are...
Foreign Trade Is THE Canary In The Coal Mine
How Donald Trump’s protectionist trade policies (whether tariffs/border adjustment taxes) impact the US economy is really not well understood. And therefore they are hard...
Market Update: Adjusting To The New Economic Climate
Each money manager and/or investor has a process that helps them determine when, how and how much to invest.
The process that I use starts...
“Fed Up” Book Review: Taking A Look Behind The Curtain
Danielle DiMartino Booth, a former Dallas Federal Reserve official, released a new book this week entitled Fed Up. The book, a first-person account of...
U.S. Corn Futures Weekly Outlook: Is The Rally On?
March corn futures moved higher this week, closing up 9 ¼-cents per bushel week-on-week, finishing Friday (2/10) at $3.75 ½. March corn futures (CH7) closed...
3 COT Report Charts For Commodities Traders (Feb 3)
The following is a recap of the February 3 Commitment of Traders Report (COT) released by the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) looking at...
Markets In Flux: Investors Facing More Chaos In 2017
Confusion, Chaos and Conflict
In my last weekly commentary I referenced a book that referred to Donald Trump as the ‘Chaos Candidate’. What we have...
