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The global trend in cryptocurrency regulation should be seen for what it is - a continuation of governmental efforts to control and regulate every aspect of money and finance.
The answer is yes, but the context is much different. “If you’ve got a bazooka in your pocket, and people know you’ve got it, you may not have to take it out.” Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson made that statement on July 15, 2008.
Despite the intensifying conflict, the initial panic buying has subsided. Oil prices have softened, largely on hopes that a broader regional war can still be avoided.
Now even the most well-known bond investors are talking about how gold and silver are rapidly wresting the safe haven crown away from the U.S. Treasury market.
Stocks can just pull back right now or they can scream to new highs. They certainly don’t have to follow my scenarios although that would be nice and easier.
Gold has mostly drifted sideways for the last couple months, vexing traders. Bullish ones eager for its mighty cyclical bull to resume are frustrated gold isn’t surging on major bullish news.
After being in the doldrums for a long time, platinum has made a solid comeback in recent months, driven by strong industrial demand, supply constraints and clean energy adoption.
Markets that don’t move for weeks at a time are dangerous, because it doesn’t mean everything’s great; it means risk is coiling up, compressing like a spring.
Instead of digging gold out of the ground, Wheaton funds mining operations in exchange for the right to buy gold, silver, and other metals later—at a fixed, discounted price.
Cotton was a little lower, there are still reports of better weather for planting in Texas and on demand concerns caused by the tariff wars and after USDA reported moderate to poor weekly export sales.
The S&P has been down a bit more than 2% since last Thursday's close. Most of this is attributable to the escalation of the war in the Middle East. Investors seem to be rotating out of Big Tech and into value and small cap stocks.
One way to play UBER Technologies stock, to set a lower buy-in target and still get paid a 2% yield over the next month, is to sell short 5% out-of-the-money (OTM) puts.
Markets are mixed this afternoon, as eyes remain on President Trump's stalling of his decision to back Israel in its war with Iran, saying a choice will be made within two weeks.
The narrative surrounding the “dollar’s death” as the world’s reserve currency has been on the rise recently. However, this happens whenever the dollar declines relative to other currencies.
London stocks saw a reversal Friday to post a slight decline after initially benefiting from broad gains as the U.S. postponed its decision regarding potential involvement in the Middle East conflict.
Even as the Federal Reserve stood pat and held interest rates steady at between 4.25 and 4.5 percent, the Swiss central bank slashed its rates to zero and indicated that negative interest rates are a possibility.
2025 has become the year of the broligarch, a collective of tech CEOs who are capable of shaping the political, cultural, and economic landscape in their image.
The current pattern indicates orange wave 3 is in progress, forming part of the larger navy blue wave 3. This setup indicates the stock is in a major advancing phase within a broader bullish trend.
This could be a wild session as we arrive at a triple witching options expiration, which will have some very heavy volume prints at the end of the session.
Even if silver moves back up in a way later, the fact that silver moved below the support lines based on the intraday price extremes is already notable.
European equity futures climbed, while the dollar weakened after the White House announced that President Donald Trump would decide within two weeks whether the U.S. would collaborate with Israel in launching strikes against Iran.
The Fed anticipates more moderate growth in the years ahead, lowering its GDP forecasts to 1.4% for 2025 (from 1.7% previously) and 1.6% for 2026 (from 1.8%).
The market had a muted initial reaction to Powell’s press conference. The S&P 500 gave up its 0.3% gain, and Treasury yields increased slightly heading into the close.
The South Korean stock market has surged this year, not due to improvements in its economic fundamentals, but primarily because of the new policies introduced by Lee Jae-myung after his election.
Natural gas has shot through the $4 barrier during the trading session Thursday in what will have been pretty thin trading anyways due to the Juneteenth holiday.
