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Bitcoin saw upward movement after the Bank of Japan raised interest rates. The rate hike marked a shift in Japan’s monetary policy, yet financial markets responded with optimism. Bitcoin’s gains came alongside a broader rebound in U.S. stock futures.
The U.S. banking industry is closing 2025 on a powerful note, with third-quarter profitability having reached its highest level in over a decade. This robust performance must renew investor focus on the industry. Thus, here are ETFs to consider.
OpenAI and the U.S. Department of Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding to deepen the collaboration on AI. Additionally, OpenAI has sought to raise as much as $100 billion in an effort to pay for its ambitious growth plans.
Nike recently reported stellar earnings. The company beat by an incredible 43%. The stock crashed anyway. I want to show you what you can learn from this, and how you can be ready for the next big trade.
Technical momentum has been building at United Rentals Inc. Shares of the company have outperformed the market over the past five years, gaining 245% while the S&P 500 Index has risen 80%. So, how should one approach the stock?
Fortunately, there’s an asset class that has absolutely crushed inflation every decade for nearly a century. And I bet you’ll be surprised when you find out what it is. The big inflation beater is small-cap stocks.
The Bitcoin space is in a transition phase as operators are focusing on digital infrastructure and AI hosting to diversify revenues. TeraWulf and Riot Platforms operate large-scale facilities powered by low-cost energy. Which one has more upside?
Mexico’s antitrust commission delivered a ruling that changes how Google can do business with mobile device manufacturers in the country. The decision targets contractual practices that limited competition in the mobile operating system market.
The Bank of Japan opted for a widely-expected 25 bp hike and kept the door to future hikes open, though Governor Kazuo Ueda's comments were rather neutral on forward guidance. The November CPI matched market expectations.
This week, President Trump signed an executive order concerning marijuana. The action reclassifies marijuana from a Schedule I drug to Schedule III. The news sent cannabis stocks soaring. Let’s consider a few implications.
The buildout of Centrus Energy’s uranium enrichment facility is finally underway as the company announced on Friday it has begun constructing new centrifuges to support commercial production of low-enriched uranium. The stock surged on the news.
You better not be betting against the consumer going into 2026. The CPI data from earlier in the week came in way cooler than expected. Crude oil prices are breaking down. Important consumer bellwether and retail stocks are hitting multi-year highs.
Next week brings just three and a half trading sessions with a $71 expected move. But once you look past the holidays, volatility pricing picks up quickly.
Silver has just rocketed up into a spectacular near-parabola. Such amazing performance has naturally captivated traders, who are aggressively buying as herd greed soars.
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 Dec. 15-19, 2025.
The year has been a tough one for oil prices. North American benchmark crude began 2025 in the low $70s. Now with just a couple weeks to go in the year, it’s been struggling along in the high $50s. But Chevron Corp. still looks appealing here.
Here is a short look at the 10 largest companies by market capitalization as of Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. Additionally, I have included the percentages of their gains on a year-to-date basis. Let's dive into the numbers.
Many manufacturing companies are assessing their sourcing strategies with a stronger focus on domestic manufacturing, technological advancement, and building more resilient supply-chain networks. Here is a look at stocks that may benefit in 2026.
Year-end trading dynamics tend to muddle the analysis. With upward pressure on Japanese and global yields, it will be curious to gauge the Treasury market mood come January.
We discuss the state of the economy, the boom-bust cycle, and why anybody—left, right, and center—who cares about the wellbeing of the working class needs to oppose the existence of the Federal Reserve.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc. fell more than 6% last week after announcing advanced talks with Yara International, a Norway-based fertilizer producer and global ammonia distributor, on two major projects in the US and Saudi Arabia.
Canada has appointed the Canadian Climate Institute to lead a voluntary sustainable investment taxonomy defining green and transition investments, enabling credible labels for bonds and funds, with initial sector guidelines targeted for release.
Across the conversation, Maharrey and Earle tackle seven persistent myths people repeat about fiat money and the gold standard—myths that sound plausible until you follow them to their real-world conclusions.
Italian consumer and service-sector confidence has risen, while industry has slipped. Overall, the picture remains consistent with a very gradual exit from stagnation and still points to modest quarterly GDP growth in the fourth quarter
Despite mortgage rates declining a full percentage point from 7.26 percent in mid-January to 6.29 percent in mid-December, existing home sales have gone virtually nowhere.
The agreements bring the total number of drugmakers aligned with Trump’s pricing initiative to 14 of the 17 companies the administration targeted this year.
Silver is in a historic breakout and leading gold and miners but is short-term extended. A brief holiday pullback is possible before the next leg higher toward much larger upside targets as the long-term bull trend remains firmly intact.
Republican consumer sentiment remains notably more optimistic than overall or Democratic sentiment in the latest University of Michigan survey, a pattern that has persisted with only slight erosion and stands apart from broader expectations data.
A three-week options update shows how time decay can work for or against you: a GILD diagonal spread thrives on positive decay while VLO and XOM struggle. The key lesson is how trade structure often matters more than direction.
If the United States wants to stay competitive, we need to treat mineral processing as a national priority. Because the Genesis Mission won’t matter if we can’t secure access to these critical materials.
AI leadership won’t be decided by the flashiest model, but by who can deploy it at scale with the lowest real-world cost. In other words: kilowatts, not code—and China has spent years building the infrastructure and energy base to capitalize.
Merging a volatile, meme-driven stock like DJT – down over 60% in the prior year even after yesterday's gains – with frontier tech amps up its volatility.
Today's extended climb moved both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq back into the black for the week, while the Dow finished with a weekly loss despite managing to close back above the 48,000 level.
We break down why the market structure has shifted, how physical demand is overwhelming paper suppression, and why $100 silver is no longer a fringe target — it’s a bullseye.
The world economy has been in the midst of a second age of globalization for the last few decades–although, at present, it is not altogether clear whether the globalization trendline is up, flat, or down.
ConocoPhillips Inc. stock has a 3.63% annual yield and could be up to 18% undervalued. Another play here is to sell short out-of-the-money OTM) puts as an income play.
Coinbase, the leading crypto exchange, made a big move this week to expand into stock trading and prediction markets, to become a one-stop shop for all things investments.
