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Gold Shines As The Economic Outlook Darkens

Gold Shines As The Economic Outlook Darkens

While looser monetary policy may seem bullish in the short term, the medium-term ramifications could upend the yellow metal.The ‘bad news is good news’ trade continues to dominate the financial markets, as weaker economic data is perceived as bullish for risk assets. In a nutshell: if the Fed pivots and ends QT, all of investors’ […]
Chart Of The Day: SAP – 20 New Highs Last Month

Chart Of The Day: SAP – 20 New Highs Last Month

100% technical buy signals 20 new highs and up 18.75% in the last month 46.30+ Weighted Alpha The Chart of the Day belongs to the software company SAP (SAP). I found the stock by using Barchart’s powerful screening functions to find stocks with the highest technical buy signals, highest Weighted Alpha, superior current momentum, and having a […]
Gold Mid-Tiers’ Q3’23 Fundamentals

Gold Mid-Tiers’ Q3’23 Fundamentals

Image Source: Pixabay The mid-tier and junior gold miners recently finished reporting their latest quarterly results. These smaller producers are fundamentally superior, in the sweet spot for upside potential in major gold uplegs. Indeed their Q3’23 operational and financial results proved spectacular, much better than their larger peers. The potent combination of lower mining costs and […]
Dow, SPX Heading For 5th-Straight Weekly Win

Dow, SPX Heading For 5th-Straight Weekly Win

Wall Street is mostly higher this afternoon, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) sitting at a nearly two-year peak after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell contradicted investors’ expectations that interest rate cuts are ahead. In a prepared statement, Powell said that it is “premature to conclude with confidence” that the central bank’s inflation combating policy is […]
5 Top-Performing Leveraged ETFs Of Blockbuster November

5 Top-Performing Leveraged ETFs Of Blockbuster November

Image Source: Pixabay Wall Street wrapped up its best month of 2023, with all three major indices logging in blockbuster gains. The Nasdaq Composite Index was the outperformer, rising 10.7% — the best monthly gain since July 2022. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial advanced 8.9% and 8.8%, respectively. The former registered the best […]
ISM Manufacturing Contracts For The 13th Consecutive Month, Order Backlogs Plunge

ISM Manufacturing Contracts For The 13th Consecutive Month, Order Backlogs Plunge

Image and excerpts by permission and courtesy of the Institute for Supply ManagementPlease consider the ISM Manufacturing Report for November 2023. The U.S. manufacturing sector contracted in November, as the Manufacturing PMI® registered 46.7 percent, the same figure recorded in October. “This is the 13th month of contraction. All of the five subindexes that directly factor into […]
Stock Market Outlook: Assessing Asia’s Economic Pulse

Stock Market Outlook: Assessing Asia’s Economic Pulse

Image Source: Unsplash As the global economic landscape continues to evolve, investors are keeping a keen eye on the stock market outlook, gauging the pulse of economies across the globe. In this analysis, we delve into recent developments in Asia-Pacific markets, exploring the unexpected expansion of China’s manufacturing sector and the nuanced shifts in other regional economies. Asia-Pacific […]
Why 2024 Could Be A Massive Year For US Equities

Why 2024 Could Be A Massive Year For US Equities

Image courtesy of 123rf.com The US stock market continued its 2023 momentum last month, resulting in the best November for the three major indexes since 2020. Led by the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) craze, Bank of America (BofA) expects this uptrend to extend into 2024, with one of the bank’s tools projecting an S&P 500’s surge to 5,300 by the […]
The Critical Minerals To China, EU, And U.S. National Security

The Critical Minerals To China, EU, And U.S. National Security

Governments formulate lists of critical minerals according to their industrial requirements and strategic evaluations of supply risks.Over the last decade, minerals like nickel, copper, and lithium have been on these lists and deemed essential for clean technologies like EV batteries and solar and wind power.This graphic uses IRENA and the U.S. Department of Energy data to identify which minerals […]
Can The Rally In Gold And Silver Continue?

Can The Rally In Gold And Silver Continue?

Image Source: Unsplash Both gold and silver have experienced a significant rally in price over the last month. But with gold above $2,000 again, while silver’s over $25, will the rally continue?Obviously no one knows the future (although wouldn’t it be great if we did?), but in today’s show, Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics looks […]