Friday, 30 October 2026
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Gold sitting almost unchanged near $4,400 reflects a market unwilling to commit ahead of two closely watched inflation prints, rather than any strong directional conviction. The more interesting signal is the gap betwee…
Precious metals are entering the final stretch of 2026 at a crossroads. After a year defined by record-breaking rallies and punishing reversals, both gold and silver now sit near technical levels that could determine wh…
PERSONAL JOURNAL: OIL 3 YEARS AHEAD - THE BIG BOO?For the love of God, divide by half and do your own analysis. This is a personal journal War begins, oil infrastructure kaboom, social infrastructure gone sadly, GCC com…
Royal Bank of Canada(NYSE:RY) reported significant adjusted EPS growth and robust net income, bolstered by exceptional results in Capital Markets and Wealth Management. Strategic allocation of capital supported both div…
US military says it struck the five Iranian tankers after IRGC targeted a US warship twice in two days.
Global oil markets crossed a threshold that had loomed over trading desks for weeks. Brent crude futures pushed past $100 a barrel in Asian trading on Wednesday, the first time the international benchmark has traded abo…
SMC + Fibonacci Trading Framework BUY SETUP Liquidity: Sell-side liquidity sweep. Structure: Bullish MSS/BOS confirmed. Fibonacci: Swing Low → Swing High. Entry Zone: 0.618–0.786 retracement. Confluence: Bullish OB + FV…
Trump just claimed rights to more oil than exists beneath all 50 states combined, but the Gulf Coast refiners responsible for turning that crude into gasoline have a very different reaction than the White House expected.
For over a year now the rupee has seen high volatility. Even so, on March 30, the rupee slipped below 95 against the US dollar for the first time; the fall comes to 5.8% from January 1. While there has been some recover…
Since hostilities began in the Middle East three weeks ago, I’ve urged investors to stay calm and resist the temptation to panic-sell.
It's an outlier thought. Maybe it's crazy. While we can't all agree on much, can we at least agree that maybe now is the exact right time for crazy, outlier thoughts?
Gold prices were little changed on Wednesday as markets waited for the upcoming meeting between the US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Yesterday, December Crude futures posted an outside day that favored the bear case as macroeconomic catalysts and major currency flows drove price action across risk assets.
Gold is popular among investors and often serves as a "safe haven," a financial asset that helps preserve capital during economic instability. Forecasting the price of this instrument requires a comprehensive analysis o…
SadaNews - The American financial and investment services company Jefferies predicts a continued upward trend for gold, based on a structural shift in the precious metal market driven by central bank purchases and diver…
Silver prices surged above $90/oz in early 2026 due to a confluence of four structural forces: a physical run on paper silver, China's export controls, increased central bank accumulation, and rising demand from nuclear…
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading lower after a mixed start to trading on Monday, following the holiday-shortened week due to the Juneteenth Federal holiday. We may start to see some end-of-the-quarter reall…
Oil markets woke Sunday to the most significant single-night military exchange in the three-month US-Iran conflict: 140 American strikes on Iranian military targets, followed by Iranian missile and drone attacks on US a…
U.S. interest-rate futures moved to price the odds of a rate increase at the Federal Open Market Committee's September 15-16 meeting at below 50%, compared with expectations earlier in the week that a hike was more like…
The European Union should act now to head off growing impacts from the Iran conflict on gas prices and availability
S&P 500 Today LIVE: S&P 500 faces downward pressure following the retracement by Wall Street from its highs and the major index closed at 7,706.22, falling 38.84 points, representing -0.50%. The decline was attributed t…
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps formally declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all commercial traffic "until further notice" early Sunday, hours after striking the Cyprus-flagged container ship GFS Galaxy in …
NVIDIA is reportedly nearing a deal to acquire Hugging Face, the leading hub for open source AI models and datasets, for $12.9 billion. Futurum examines why NVIDIA would make this move, why the open model distribution l…
Good morning, lovely people, and happy hump day. Today’s issue is packed with energy news — from retail fuel price hike to macroeconomic headwinds as another ratings agency trims India’s GDP forecast. To soften the fisc…