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Besides Bay Area real estate, the other market whose ascent I can applaud is precious metals. I’m delighted to see gold blast above $2600 for the first time, nothing yet another lifetime high.

The Fed funds futures market is signalling between 100 and 125 basis points of cuts by the year’s end, with a hefty 250 basis points—10 quarter-point cuts—baked in by the close of 2025.

In this week's video, we'll review the latest charts to help us answer the question, how stable is the stock market?

Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), Prologis, Inc. (PLD), and Medtronic plc (MDT), as well as a micro-cap stock Crimson Wine Group, Ltd. (CWGL).

Stocks continued their upward drift today, as complacency in the largesse of the Fed to Wall Street continues to build. Gold and silver continued their breakout, moving higher.

An event-full week (US CPI, US PPI, Presidential debate, ECB rate decision, and WSJ Fed whispers) left stocks, bonds, gold, crypto, and crude all higher in price, while the dollar was clubbed like a baby seal.

When Chinese gold futures break through the current resistance level, we could see another rapid run-up in the price of gold, once again supercharging the gold bull run.

In Friday's session, the EUR/GBP pair fell slightly by 0.15% to 0.8435, showcasing a negative technical outlook.

Boeing (BA) is bleeding cash, yet offered a reasonable deal including a commitment to build the next plane in Seattle. The union walked out.

This week, the market was informed about the latest development in US inflation. Although the somewhat higher core rate did not really meet the market's wishes, it continues to dream of massive interest rate cuts by the Fed.

Cardinal Health Inc. is one of the leading wholesale distributors of pharmaceuticals, medical/surgical supplies and related products to a broad range of health care customers.

Of course, the fact that it’s Friday the thirteenth has no impact on neither gold, nor the USD Index, but this day might be important for both markets due to other reasons.

The August jobs report highlighted a critical reality: the labor market is cooling off. While the headline figures seemed decent, the underlying data reveals clear warning signs that worker demand is slowing.

The prevailing narrative around oil is that a global supply glut and weakening demand from China will continue to keep oil prices down. Oil prices have dropped 22.55% since their April peak. Will they reverse course soon?

Many gold stock traders will hold for the wrong reasons, sell for the wrong reasons, and not buy back for the right reasons

It looks like we’re back in a risk-on environment. Of course, that can change, but the most important thing is that we keep playing the hand the market deals us.

The blended revenue growth estimate for the 199 companies in this index is 3.6% for Q2 2024. Of those companies that have reported their quarterly results so far, 49% announced revenue that exceeded analysts’ expectations.

This is an important statistic about the well-being of, well, the median American household, so one of my pet peeves is that it is only released annually, and with a 9-month delay at that.

The US yield curve is considered to be a good leading indicator of US recession, with an inversion of the curve invariably occurring prior to the start of a recession.