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USA Rare Earth stock has nearly doubled in the past month after gaining significantly today. The company’s CEO confirmed that the company is in close discussions with the Trump administration about potential government support.
Applied Materials, one of the world’s largest suppliers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, is bracing for a significant financial setback as new US export restrictions tighten the flow of chipmaking tools to China.
Private employment in firms with 1-499 employees constitutes about 80% of employment. Seen either way, employment growth has essentially disappeared for “small” firms.
This is quite the pickle: on the one hand, gold and silver have blasted to nosebleed levels, which makes me very uneasy about buying palladium. On the other hand, viewed utterly by itself, PALL looks like an amazingly good bullish setup.
Equity traders barely flinched at the U.S. government shutdown, shrugging off Washington’s theatre even as it blinded the usual BLS navigational stars.
When mega-cap tech starts pulling back harder, it's going to suck down every other sector with it. Those rotation attempts will fail. The market cap concentration is too extreme.
Gold’s massive record-shattering bull run over these past couple years has been epic. Remarkably it has also been a single monster upleg suffering no correction-grade selloffs.
This article conveys the performance of 6 sub-portfolios, totaling 26 constituents, in our model AI Semiconductor Stocks Portfolio, the constituents in each, their price change catalyst(s), and a YTD chart of the sum total of their performances.
Brushing off the government shutdown, the Dow finished the day up 238 points for a record close, though off its session highs above psychologically-significant 47,000.
Markets remain chaotic. On the surface, they may look bullish. But beneath that, sentiment is split, and every day seems to bring a new headline that can push prices sharply higher or lower.
With the exception of late July and August, jobless claims have been consistently forecasting an increase of 5% in the unemployment rate. Since last autumn the unemployment rate was 4.1% or 4.2%.
With silver rallying strongly and rising more than 50% since the start of the year, a growing number of investors are starting to worry that a crash may be coming.
While small caps still offer upside and they will rally onbalance into 2026, risk has increased. It is no longer a lay up purchase to close your eyes and enjoy.
Star Group, L.P., together with its subsidiaries, provides home heating oil and propane products and services to residential and commercial customers in the United States.
Wall Street is unfazed by the ongoing government shutdown, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 335 points this afternoon after earlier scoring an all-time high.
The Philippine central bank is expected to keep rates unchanged. Data highlights include Taiwan’s inflation and trade, and Chinese reports on holiday travel and consumption.
Looking at the trajectory of gold in past government shutdowns can give us some clues about how gold might behave during this latest round of political theater.
The EUR/USD pair held its ground around 1.1726 on Friday. While volatility in the currency market has picked up significantly, the immediate economic impact of the US government shutdown remains limited.
The US dollar is trading softer but mostly inside yesterday's ranges. An unexpected jump in Japanese unemployment has weighed on the yen, which is the only G10 currency that is not gaining on the dollar today.
The weakening job market is disinflationary AND provides the incentive for the Fed to cut rates. That actually creates the kind of conditions that we normally see with economic recoveries.
Bitcoin surged to the $120,000 mark in early October, hitting a seven-week high, as political uncertainty and expectations of further US interest rate cuts supported demand.
The Dallas Federal Reserve’s latest Energy Survey, which tracks activity across Texas, northern Louisiana, and southern New Mexico, shows a clear cooling in the U.S. oil sector.
The global stock market rally has continued for a sixth consecutive day, fuelled by enthusiasm around AI technology, with futures suggesting further increases are on the horizon.
Gold prices are consolidating just under the $3,860 per ounce mark after setting a fresh record earlier this week, extending what could become a seven-week winning streak.
