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The Light Sweet Crude Oil market fell rather hard during the course of the week, as the Iranians and Israelis signed a cease-fire. This of course, has taken some of the “risk premium” out of the market for crude oil...
The risk premium on crude oil faded considerably this week, with prices set for their steepest weekly fall since March 2023 on Friday. However, further declines in oil prices were arrested due to a tight US market, according to experts.
China recently experienced a housing crash that is comparable in size to what the US experienced during 2006-10. Before considering the impact of that housing crash, let’s review what happened in the US.
The market’s now front-running not just the Fed, but the next Fed. Futures are starting to price a post-Powell pivot party, with traders betting on at least five cuts by end-2026—up from four just a month ago.
There was a write-up about how well equity momentum funds are doing this year. At one point during the April carnage, momentum funds were reportedly doing poorly, but have they turned it around? JP Morgan has a momentum ETF with the symbol JMOM.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both set all-time highs this week. This feat seems remarkable given the barrage of negative headlines, geopolitical risks, and a Federal Reserve intent on not cutting rates.
For six consecutive decades from the 1940s to the 1990s, average GDP growth was always 3.1% or higher. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, but that was the average.
The AI hardware-related (semiconductor/computer chip/wafer) segment consists of hundreds of companies, big and small, in 7 distinct sub-segments, each with its own unique dynamics and growth trajectories and this article highlights each of them.
On the surface, trading volume is down and the summer doldrums are here. But a big move is setting up. You can see it in the squeezing of the Bollinger Bands around the NYSE Advance Decline Line, the S&P 500 Index, and the 10-year Treasury yield.
Here is a quick overview of my current short positions. I’m still quite light – only a 62% commitment level – in light of the nearly daily occurrence of lifetime highs on major indexes.
Catch up on the top artificial intelligence news and commentary by Wall Street analysts on publicly traded companies in the technology space with this short recap. The Trump administration is aiming to boost energy to power the U.S. expansion of AI.
The price of gold tumbled by over 1.50% amid an improvement in risk appetite. The de-escalation of the Israel-Iran conflict, the trade agreement with China, and ongoing negotiations between the United States and its peers were welcomed by investors.
The quantum computing industry has seen a surge of attention in 2025, driven by a wave of technical breakthroughs and a rapid expansion in real-world applications. Here is a brief look at stocks in the space that may break out in the near-term.
McCormick & Company, Inc. stock ended the week at $76.31 on Friday, June 27, down approximately 1.26%, after the company reported mixed but resilient second-quarter results and reaffirmed its full-year outlook.
The Canadian dollar backslid on Friday, as it fell back on a combination of weakening Canadian Gross Domestic Product growth metrics and fresh trade tensions with US President Donald Trump.
It was only a week ago that people were yammering on about World War III, and yet here we are: with lifetime highs on most equity indexes. It’s rather stunning.
We’re not interested in picking any one AI model that may (or may not) come out on top. Instead, we prefer to find businesses that are contributing to the entire ecosystem. And it’s worth talking about a few.
At the forefront of the AI frenzy has been NVIDIA, which has seen unprecedented growth over recent years. But a lingering question remains following the stock’s immense run over the last several years – is the stock too expensive to buy now?
It’s happening in real-time, yet most investors remain completely oblivious. The “it” is the Artificial Intelligence revolution, the greatest productivity accelerant since electricity. Here's what it means for Microsoft Corp.
What has Wall Street been buzzing about this week? Here is a quick look at the top 5 buy calls and the top 5 sell calls made by Wall Street's best analysts during the trading week of June 23-27, 2025.
The second half of 2025 begins not with optimism, but with fatigue. The global economy is not collapsing, but it is clearly bending under strain—economic, geopolitical, and institutional.
A review of the Ticketz Indicator on the QQQ Hourly time frame, the performance of some recent swing positions, and a buy stop idea from my Weekly Squeeze Scan.
Inexperienced traders fall for pump-and-dumps because these schemes exploit cognitive biases that evolved over millions of years. Your brain isn’t designed for modern markets. It’s designed for surviving on the savanna.
After a bumpy few months, markets are looking to the US Federal Reserve to cut rates later this year, maybe by half a percentage point. But something might be changing.
In this week's video, we'll review the latest charts and data to help us understand, why recent signals say stocks could push significantly higher over the next year?
Silver is positioned to rise into the triple digits. The sooner Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill gets passed, the more assurance you can havethat the Fed will start printing money soon.
Nearly three months ago, amid panic and 2008 comparisons, I predicted 80% odds of new highs by late 2025 or Q1 2026. Few agreed. I didn’t expect it in Q2—yet here we are at all-time highs.
The dollar has weakened, at certain points when the ten-year yield has risen (suggesting an erosion of its safe haven status), and most recently has fallen with falling Treasury yields. The broad dollar has depreciated about 7.6% since January 20th.
It was a tough end of the week for both the gold and silver prices on Friday, as both were down substantially amidst news of a trade deal between the United States and China.
Next week’s US jobs numbers are expected to hold up reasonably well, but lead indicators point to softer activity ahead, which could fuel expectations of an earlier rate cut.
Meta and clean energy developer Invenergy announced that they have signed a series of agreements, providing Meta with nearly 800 MW of renewable energy from new wind and solar projects in the U.S. to support its operations and data center growth.
