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Berkshire Hathaway's stock shows mixed technical indicators and solid fundamentals as it approaches its 52-week high, leading to heightened volatility ahead of upcoming earnings and leadership changes.
A decade ago, Stack Overflow was where every CS engineer went to ask questions and get answers. It’s fascinating to see how, now that ChatGPT (and the like) make such places unnecessary, it has shrunk to nothingness.
The US dollar continues to climb against the yen, with carry trade momentum and resilient US data pushing USD/JPY closer to the key 158 resistance level.
The US dollar enjoys a firmer tone today ahead of what promises to be a memorable North American session that features the US December employment report and the Supreme Court’s judgement.
Just as markets were beginning to adjust to the situation in Venezuela, new geopolitical risks have emerged, which could leave markets on edge going into the weekend.
Asian markets stayed within a tight range as investors awaited two major events on Friday: the U.S. payrolls report and a possible Supreme Court ruling on Trump's tariffs.
Blue Owl, a name we’ve gotten to know for all the wrong reasons, has been forced to come clean after getting sued by pretty much every class action securities lawyer in America.
The British pound remains resilient against the yen, supported by interest rate divergence and carry trade momentum, with 215 as a long-term upside target.
Expectations have grown that today’s US jobs report will be decent enough to keep the Fed put for longer, and that the Supreme Court will rule against Trump’s tariffs.
Gold (XAU/USD) reverses a modest intraday dip to the $4,453 area and trades near the top end of its daily range heading into the European session on Friday.
“We see a wide range of $5,050 – $3,950/oz for 2026 and an end-year price of $4,450/oz,” the HSBC analysts said in a note published Thursday, which was quoted in a Kitco report.
In this video, Ira Epstein discusses the upcoming release of the December nonfarm payrolls data, highlighting expectations for 75,000 new jobs and a jobless rate potentially falling to 4.5%, which could prompt a rate cut.
China's consumer price index inflation rose 0.8% year-on-year in December to a 34-month high, bringing the full-year CPI to 0.0%. This indicates that China avoided deflation in 2025.
In this video, Ira Epstein discusses the upcoming US nonfarm payroll report, with economists forecasting a rise of 75,000 jobs and a slight decrease in the jobless rate to 4.5%.
West Texas Intermediate US Crude Oil prices attract fresh sellers during the Asian session on Friday and erode a part of the previous day's strong move up from the vicinity of the lowest level since December 19, touched earlier this week.
New analysis using ADP and early-benchmark data suggests US private payroll growth may be weaker than consensus, with implied nonfarm employment near a peak and broader employment gains concentrated in larger firms, signaling a soft labor market.
The volatile week in the gold and silver markets has continued on Thursday, with the gold price moving around quite a bit, but roughly flat on the day, while silver is another $2 lower at the moment.
It's been quite the first full working week of 2026, starting with the remarkable narrative unfolding out of Venezuela, and was always going to culminate with the US payrolls report that has been laced with as many questions as answers.
Tech stocks led the way lower today, with the S&P 500 maintaining an anchor to stocks' recent gains. Gold bounced. Silver gave some back.VIX continues to creep up slowly.
As expected, the VIX 1-day rose to around 14, although that was somewhat lower than anticipated, given that it has typically moved into the mid-to-high teens in similar situations.
The one index to watch for the coming couple of weeks is the Semiconductor Index. The gains to new highs is narrowing the retracements zones with 5,400s coming into play more as a pullback target.
It has been a rough stretch for Tesla shareholders lately. The stock has slid in nine of the last ten sessions coming into today, which is enough to test even the strongest conviction.
In early 2020, global nominal interest rates converged around zero, with the U.S. (at the 10-year maturity point) under 1% and the EU slightly negative.
We break down the real driver behind recent price action: index rebalancing, a scheduled, rule-based flow that forced major funds to sell futures as gold and silver became oversized in commodity benchmarks like the Bloomberg Commodity Index.
November’s report did not confirm October’s. For most of 2025, in contrast to much other data in the jobs sector, the JOLTS reports had been very much consistent with a “soft landing” jobs scenario.
The USD Index has been declining in recent years, but the reality is that it’s after a very long-term breakout that materialized in early 2015 and that was then verified in the following years.
For 2026, the big question is when fiscal stimulus will start to boost economic growth. The latest data on sentiment still shows a lacklustre economy for the moment, though unemployment does remain around all-time lows
