Two things we know. September is the worst month of the year from a seasonal perspective. And September to mid-October is seasonally weak in election years.

Globally, gold-backed ETFs added 28.5 tons of gold to their holdings in August.

First Dollar General crashes, then Dollar Tree, now the price of diamonds. The labor market is seizing up, job openings are down, layoff have surged, and the unemployment rate is ticking higher.

Other than a small 0.1 percent improvement in the unemployment rate, this was a very poor jobs report with private payrolls only +74,000.

Starbucks’ (SBUX​​​​​​​) investors have been rewarded with an annual rate of return in the upper teens if shares were acquired at the end of August 1995 and never sold. It is a very different story if shares were acquired at the end of August.

The August U.S. jobs report revealed mixed signals, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by 142,000, below expectations.

The price gap on the SPY (and SPX​​​​​​​, obviously) offered little in the way of support. We’ve sliced right through it. This opens up the opportunity for September to be not just good for the bears, but great.

The GBP/USD seesawed during the North American session as softer US jobs data increased. This kept investors uncertain of a 50—or 25-basis-point rate cut by the Fed at the September 17-18 meeting. The pair trades at 1.3172, virtually unchanged.

We're looking at the silver ETF (SLV) that began trading back in 2006. Similar to the gold ETF (GLD), SLV allowed investors to gain exposure to silver in traditional brokerage accounts.

In this article, we will recap the methodology, review the indices’ performance, and dive into their core characteristics.

There was a bizarre reaction in risk assets this morning after the jobs report: after first surging, everything started selling off just after the cash open, led by a huge hammer in bitcoin as usual just around the 10am slam...

USD/JPY is rebounding from key support near the August 5 lows. It is forming a bullish candlestick although it is not possible to be certain until the current 4-hour period ends. The trend remains bearish although a correction higher looks likely.

Michael Smith, a musician from North Carolina, was indicted for a fraud scheme that generated more than $10 million in royalties by using AI-generated songs and bots.

Watch out on a bullish continuation at the end of 2024 that can send the price back to new all-time highs for wave 5.

The US added fewer jobs than expected in August, but there was enough in the report to keep markets guessing on whether the Fed will cut by 25bp or 50bp on 18 September.

A week ago, the BLS revised lower the number of employed persons by nearly 900,000. Given that revision and a slew of recent revisions in other economic statistics, we must ask if GDP is also overstated.

Most investors focus on large cap AI&R stocks that trade for hundreds of dollars yet there are a few less expensive, and potentially more explosive, small cap AI&R stocks that will get you wider exposure to that growth with less money invested.

Gold has maintained its strong upward momentum throughout 2024, with prices nearing another high in just over three weeks.

My focus continues to be on whether jobs gains are most consistent with a “soft landing,” i.e., no further deterioration, or whether there is further decline towards a recession. 

USD/CAD rebounds strongly to near 1.3500 as the US Dollar reverses losses after the release of the US NFP data for August. Fewer-than-expected US job growth boosts expectations of Fed interest rate cuts this month.