The biggest news of the day is the fact that May crude oil futures traded to negative prices, posting a daily low of negative $40.34 (-$40.32) before settling slightly higher. U.S. crude oil storage capacity is basically nonexistent right now, helping create the price weakness and today’s collapse. May futures posted a $56/barrel drop today while June futures fell a mere $4.60 and closed at $20.43/barrel.
Some news outlets are reporting that a U.S. exchange traded fund (ETF), USO, is also partly responsible for the crash. According to Forbes, the USO fund owned 25 percent of the outstanding volume of May WTI crude oil futures as of last week. Because funds, especially ETFs, do not typically want to take delivery of futures co...
The corn and soy complex closed higher, with the wheat market mixed, as winter wheat closed up but spring wheat and livestock ended lower. Part of the strength for corn and soybeans may have been a weather premium, as crop planting has started out fast but warm weather has been slow to develop...
Real GDP grew at a 2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2026, slightly below the consensus expectation of 2.3 percent but above the 0.5 percent growth in Q4 2025. The GDP number matches the average annualized pace of growth since the peak back in late 2007, right before the Financial P...
Reflect for a moment on what you eat. There is a lot of advice out there in the ether about what you should eat, but really, what do you currently eat and how much? The good people at the USDA have some data for you, to help you answer that question. USDA says that we eat quite a bit of meat. L...
