Category: Markets and Macro

Inflation is drifting higher again in the Federal Reserve’s preferred yardstick, complicating hopes that price pressures were gliding smoothly back to target. The personal consumption expenditures index showed prices rising at 2.8% in November, a reminder that the last mile in the inflation fight is proving stubborn even as growth and jobs remain resilient. That…

Rare earth miners have roared back into focus after a string of surprisingly strong operational updates, turning a once-speculative corner of the market into one of the week’s most closely watched trades. The latest leg higher has been driven less by hype and more by concrete production and project milestones, igniting a new wave of…

Global markets are grappling with a rare alignment of risks, from swelling public debts to shifting geopolitical alliances, that some economists now describe as a self reinforcing “doom loop” for the world economy. At the center of that feedback cycle sits the U.S. dollar, still the dominant reserve currency but no longer looking invulnerable. The…

President Donald Trump is again testing the outer limits of American statecraft, floating the idea of paying every resident of Greenland $1 million to bring the vast Arctic territory into the United States. The proposal, framed as a once-in-a-lifetime windfall for roughly 56,000 people, would turn a long-running geopolitical tug-of-war into a direct cash offer…

With artificial intelligence, cloud software, and next‑generation chips driving markets, a handful of focused exchange‑traded funds are positioned to grow far faster than the broad S&P 500 over the next five years. Instead of trying to pick individual winners, investors can use these concentrated vehicles to ride entire themes like semiconductors, large‑cap growth, and small‑cap…

President Donald Trump is dangling a once unthinkable offer over the Arctic: a proposal that could see every person in Greenland handed around 1,000,000 dollars in exchange for backing a transfer of the vast island into the United States. The idea, framed by Trump as an “ultimate deal,” fuses hard cash, strategic minerals and military…

Gold is no longer trading to the old script. A powerful new class of buyers has stepped in, prices are grinding toward levels that once sounded fanciful, and the traditional playbook that tied bullion neatly to interest rates and the dollar is starting to look outdated. I see a market being repriced in real time…

Mitt Romney is trying to rewrite the Republican script on taxes at the very moment America’s red ink is reaching historic levels. As the national debt surges and interest costs balloon, he is arguing that the richest Americans, including people like himself, will have to shoulder more of the burden if the country wants to…

Gasoline has quietly become one of the brightest spots in Americans’ household budgets, with pump prices slipping below $2 a gallon in parts of the country and easing the sting of everything from rent to groceries. President Donald Trump is seizing on that shift, arguing that the slide in fuel costs is “bigger than a…

President Donald Trump is trying to turn the world’s largest proven crude reserves into a geopolitical and financial windfall, promising that “a lot of money is going to be made” as United States companies move into Venezuela’s battered oil patch. For investors, the question is how to position before the first big contracts are signed…