Several stocks continue to garner significant attention among investors. Their popularity is easy to understand given their big gains that have been fueled by impressive stories over recent years.

In this video, Ir discusses the recent developments in international trade relations, highlighting the U.S. President's interactions with the European Union, Japan, and South Korea, and the implications of potential tariffs on BRICS members.

The US Dollar Index (DXY), an index of the value of the US Dollar (USD) measured against a basket of six world currencies, edges higher to near 97.55 during the Asian trading hours on Wednesday.

Market indexes started out mixed in today’s pre-market, and there they remained throughout the trading session. Some early chop back and forth eventually gave way to flat levels into the close.

With semiconductors being critical to electronic components, Credo Technology Group and Nova Limited are two standouts in the tech sector at the moment.

The Gold price ( XAU/USD) trades in negative territory near $3,330 during the Asian trading hours on Tuesday, pressured by a firmer US Dollar (USD).

Trump on TruthSocial says, TARIFFS WILL START BEING PAID ON AUGUST 1, 2025. There has been no change to this date, and there will be no change

Today’s nasty range, combined with the trend on the 60min, tells me this Slingshot Reversal could be a huge payday tomorrow morning!

Comex copper futures surged to a record after President Trump said he planned a 50% tariff on copper imports, more than the market expected.

The Fed released an interesting study saying there was about a 9% chance of the Fed cutting interest rates to 0% again. I think the Fed’s 9% probability is way too low. ZIRP will come back. It’s just a matter of when.

In this video, Ira Epstein discusses the financial markets' response to a cabinet-level press conference held by the president, where a significant announcement was made about a 50% tariff on copper imports.

You can’t simply be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. But when markets make big moves because of extreme sentiment, it’s usually profitable to take the opposite trade.

West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the US crude oil benchmark, is trading around $67.15 during the early Asian trading hours on Wednesday.

It was another quiet day in the gold and silver markets on Tuesday, with the gold price down $6, and silver up 16 cents.

Fiscal concerns in Japan are pushing up global 30Y rates and since structural forces are not in favour of longer-dated bonds, we find it difficult to see offsetting factors. Tuesday's US 3yr auction was not great, but tolerably fine.

With traders glued to their terminals and ears cocked to the next tariff whisper, the tape showed signs of fatigue—unsurprising given the conflicting signals from Washington.

The market is taking ZIRP possibilities very seriously - and so should those at the highest levels of the Fed.

CAIE purports to be the first product that makes autocallables available in an ETF so it avoids high minimums and makes it more liquid. 

We're just five trading days into the second half of 2025, but so far this month, the average stock in the large-cap Russell 1,000 is up a solid 1.84%. 

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is forecast to hold its key interest rate at 3.25% on Wednesday.