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The Energy Report: Not Over
Oil prices rebounded yesterday from signs that the geopolitical tension may not have eased as much as previously believed. After the close we saw the American Petroleum Institute (API) report that petroleum supplies came in tighter than the market was expecting. The API reported the crude oil inventories fell by 3.23 million barrels where the […]
Softs Report – Wednesday, April 24
CottonGeneral Comments: Cotton was mostly lower yesterday although May closed a little higher on short covering before the deliveries start. Demand remains a problem. The export sales report showed poor sales once again. USDA made no changes to the domestic supply or demand sides of the balance sheets, but did cut world ending stocks slightly. […]
Pyth Network boosts Morph DeFi ecosystem with real-time price feeds
Blockchain infrastructure provider Pyth Network announced the implementation of its price feed into Morph testnet. The collaboration introduces over 500 real-time price feeds from Pyth, spanning various asset classes, into Morph’s layer-2 platform. “The partnership between Pyth Network and Morph opens doors for developers to create cutting-edge DeFi applications that leverage reliable data and scalable […]
Will Gold Prices Keep Rising In 2024?
Image Source: Pixabay Yesterday the gold price had a bad day, falling by more than 2%. Is this indicative of things to come? We don’t think so. Whilst we may well see some additional pullback, we don’t expect this to be the end of the gold price rally. Currently, gold is stuck between a rock and a […]
Why Follow Junk Bonds?
Bonds issued by companies with a credit rating of BB or lower by S&P or Fitch, or Ba or lower by Moody’s, are considered junk bonds.Junk bonds, or high-yield bonds because the interest payments are higher than for the average corporate bond, pay high interest rates to entice investors to take on the greater risk of […]
I’ve Had It With Utilities
My obsession with the Dow Utilities is starting to wane swiftly. As anyone reading Slope for more than a few days knows, I was mesmerized by the huge diamond pattern in $UTIL. The pattern is still there, and nothing has ruined it, but by GOD this has been an exasperating trade. Perhaps someone as impatient […]
Bounce In Money Growth Is Good News And Bad News
Photo by Fabian Blank on Unsplash The monthly money supply numbers are out. I have bad news and good news.The bad news is that the contraction in the money supply appears to be over. That’s not bad news per se (see below), but it’s bad in that the anti-inflationary work that was happening is coming to an end before it’s […]
NFT lending volume surpass $2 billion in Q1 as holders search for liquidity
The lending market based on non-fungible tokens (NFT) as collateral surpassed $2 billion in volume during the first quarter, sustaining growth of 44% compared to Q4 2023, according to a CoinGecko report. “Crypto markets are all about market rotation […] There’s clearly a trend where OG NFT holders are leveraging these [lending] platforms to get […]
How Nvidia Uses Gold
Image Source: Pixabay What is Nvidia (NVDA)? If you’re a committed gamer the question may sound like nonsense. Nvidia, which was founded in 1993, is a tech company that makes GPUs and other products. It originally specialized in making products for the video game industry, that assisted in 3D rendering. If you were a committed gamer, you probably owned their products. If you weren’t, you might not have […]
