USAR shares are now trading at roughly 5x their price in late March.

Although we may be lacking government-produced statistics, numerous other data reports have been released this week, and they're not looking great.

The S&P 500 generated at return of 7.8% in the quarter, fueled by strong corporate earnings despite tariff pressures and lower interest rates.

Silver is up more than 60% in 2025 and is now closing in on its 45-year resistance at $50 an ounce.

S&P 500’s CAPE ratio (P/E based on trailing 10-year earnings) is now 40x, officially back dot-com era levels (which peaked at 44x).

Gold punched higher, setting a new closing high.

Equity traders barely flinched at the U.S. government shutdown, shrugging off Washington’s theatre even as it blinded the usual BLS navigational stars.

When mega-cap tech starts pulling back harder, it's going to suck down every other sector with it. Those rotation attempts will fail. The market cap concentration is too extreme.

​​​​​​​Gold’s massive record-shattering bull run over these past couple years has been epic. Remarkably it has also been a single monster upleg suffering no correction-grade selloffs.

This article conveys the performance of 6 sub-portfolios, totaling 26 constituents, in our model AI Semiconductor Stocks Portfolio, the constituents in each, their price change catalyst(s), and a YTD chart of the sum total of their performances.

In some ways, the current silver run-up is somewhat eerily reminiscent of the spike to $49 back in 2011 following Ben Bernanke’s QE2 programs.

Solana reached $236 and XRP touched $3.10 amid an overall crypto bounce.

S&P 500 advanced by 0.44 points (0.01%) to 6,715.79.

Brushing off the government shutdown, the Dow finished the day up 238 points for a record close, though off its session highs above psychologically-significant 47,000.

The Dow Jones hit a fresh all-time high on Friday, clipping 47,000.

Markets remain chaotic. On the surface, they may look bullish. But beneath that, sentiment is split, and every day seems to bring a new headline that can push prices sharply higher or lower.

With its AI investments, strong European expansion, and global leadership in e-commerce, Shopify remains a stock to watch.

Here's a glance at major developments on Friday.

Cotton was lower as the U.S. government has continued to be shut down. There are no more USDA reports coming due to the closure.

Fundamentally, what makes MSTR stock particularly intriguing at this juncture is the options market.