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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 …
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…
In 2026, gold has been a tough trade to time right, falling from a 10-year high over $5,300 an ounce that it reached early in the year by as much as 18%, according to Goldprice.org. But last week was …
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 bench…
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…
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. Confluen…
US military says it struck the five Iranian tankers after IRGC targeted a US warship twice in two days.
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 W…
Gold prices steadied on Monday, finding a precarious balance after an initial sell-off, as a weaker U.S. dollar and persistent geopolitical tensions partially offset the market's fading expectations f…
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 ha…
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.
Since hostilities began in the Middle East three weeks ago, I’ve urged investors to stay calm and resist the temptation to panic-sell.
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 (XAU/USD) remains under some selling pressure for the second straight day on Monday, though it shows some resilience below the $4,400 mark during the Asian session. Moreover, the commodity holds …
Apple (AAPL) is trading at $305.49, forming a symmetrical triangle pattern. The stock faces potential upside toward $340.30 if it breaks the $317.30 resistance level, while a close below $272.90 inval…
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 compr…
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 …
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 …
XRP, a major crypto token, traded near $1.38 with a market cap of about $86.4 billion and 24‑hour volume of $1.78 billion but was down roughly 6.8% over seven days as the U.S. 10‑year Treasury yield c…
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 dr…
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-o…
The European Union should act now to head off growing impacts from the Iran conflict on gas prices and availability
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…
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 …