Crude oil climbs, silver tumbles, and inflation keeps futures traders focused on the Fed. On this episode, we welcome back Dan "The Man" Gramza of Gramza Capital Management to break down the biggest futures market movers—and explore why we might owe modern financial futures to the meats.

We discuss the geopolitical risk premium driving crude oil and heating oil, the sharp selloff in silver, and the struggle for direction in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Dan also shares his perspective on the stock market pullback, Treasury futures activity, and the economic reports that could shape the next move.

Plus, we explore elevated beef prices, the challenges facing CME's new lean beef trimmings futures contract, and Dan's take on how livestock futures helped pave the way for currency and stock index futures. We round things out with dairy, grain markets, the strong dollar, and a little appreciation for a good corned beef hash.

Can your hockey team win a game while its performance index falls? Tim McCourt of CME Group and Rhett Dinsdale of FutureSports Performance Indexes join The Futures Rundown to explain the mechanics behind NHL team performance futures.

Explore how these sports futures use official league statistics and performance milestones, how futures prices reflect expectations, and what separates these contracts from traditional sports betting and prediction markets. The discussion covers contract sizes, weekly and monthly expirations, cash settlement, and potential hedging applications for sponsors, venue operators and season ticket holders.

Plus, hear about potential expansion into baseball, interest in sports options, and the latest futures market activity across sugar, natural gas, cocoa, precious metals, Ether, equity indexes and Treasuries.

Coffee rallies, corn tumbles and cattle futures tell a different story from the prices consumers pay for beef. Mark Longo welcomes Kevin Green of Schwab Network to break down a volatile week across agricultural commodities, Treasury futures and energy markets.

On this episode of The Futures Rundown:

• Coffee, cattle, dairy and grain futures lead a wild week in consumable commodities.

• Kevin examines the USDA report behind the selloff in corn.

• Beef imports and demand for American-raised cattle reshape the outlook for producers.

• Heavy Treasury futures activity puts the spotlight on rising yields and bond volatility.

• Widening credit spreads raise questions about a relatively calm equity market.

• Natural gas seasonality, LNG demand and winter weather shape Kevin's outlook.

• Crude oil, heating oil and refining constraints round out the energy discussion.

Plus, Kevin shares how trading cattle futures helped inspire his growing family cattle operation.