Platinum is the third most traded precious metal in the world after gold and silver, and investment demand is growing. It is also an industrial metal that is widely used in a variety of sectors. The four main uses of platinum are in catalytic converters for the automotive industry; as…
Moderated by Thom Calandra of the Calandra Report, the precious metals panel at this year’s New Orleans Investment Conference featured several well-known gold analysts and market watchers. Omar Ayales, Rich Checkan, Jeff Deist, Avi Gilburt and Dana Samuelson took the stage for a 35-minute discussion that began with a discussion…
As shoppers look for value, dollar stores might seem to be logical destinations. But that penny-pinching mentality hasn’t been enough to lift sales for Dollar Tree and Dollar General. Shares of the deep discounters have plunged so far in 2024. The retailers have each cut their full-year forecasts because of weaker-than-expected sales. And…
Washington, D.C.’s attorney general sued Amazon on Wednesday, accusing the company of covertly depriving residents in certain ZIP codes in the nation’s capital from access to Prime’s high-speed delivery. The lawsuit from AG Brian Schwalb alleges that, since 2022, Amazon has “secretly excluded” two “historically underserved” D.C. ZIP codes from its expedited…
In this video from StockCharts TV, Julius takes a deep dive into US sector rotation, breaking it down into offensive, defensive and cyclical sectors. He first looks at the relative rotations that are shaping up inside the group, assessing each sector’s price chart in combination with the rotation on the…
When going through your morning trading routine, you’re likely to tune into the news for unfolding events, run technical scans, check sentiment and breadth indicators, and utilize any other tool that can provide a snapshot of what’s going on “now” before or during the market’s opening hours. After all, each…
A Democratic lawmaker is moving to force a vote on releasing the results of the House Ethics Committee’s report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., introduced legislation on Tuesday afternoon aimed at mandating a House-wide vote on whether to make the Gaetz report public. He introduced…
Critics of ‘deep state’ foe Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, call the veteran official a ‘danger’ to the U.S. who will politicize the bureau – but a review of the agency’s recent history shows the upper echelon of the FBI has long had a politicization problem,…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says President-elect Donald Trump is in the ‘right place’ when it comes to his warning of there being ‘hell to pay’ if Hamas doesn’t release their remaining hostages. ‘President Trump put the emphasis in the right place, on Hamas, and not on the Israeli government,…
A Democratic U.S. congressman on Monday said it appears that certain people are ‘above the law’ after President Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, despite repeatedly saying he would not give his son a pass. Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., responded to Biden’s decision to pardon Hunter on social media, blasting…