Commodities: Global   OPEC+ Voted to Increase Production by 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) for March, though the pact again missed their total quota due to underproduction in many countries. OPEC pumped 28 million bpd (mbpd) in January, a Reuters survey found, up 0.020 mbpd from the previous month but…

COVID-19   Omicron Following the Script we reported on last month as the current variant’s cases appeared to peak in the US on January 11th per Reuters at 704k, and quickly fell off to 304k on February 1st. US deaths may be peaking now at under 3k, which is below…

During the month of January, the top 3 performing sectors were: energies (+16.40%), grains (+5.44%), and metals (+4.68%). The bottom 3 sectors were: indices (-5.80%), interest rates (-1.76%) and currencies (-0.29%). The start of 2022 began with increased volatility across the board with stocks taking the largest hit (Nasdaq -8.67%…