Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
Gold is staging a violent rebound after a bruising selloff, with prices on track for their biggest one day percentage jump since the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. The move caps a whiplash stretch in which panic selling gave way almost overnight to a rush back into the metal as investors reassessed interest rates,…
President Donald Trump has moved to sharply reduce tariffs on Indian goods, tying the cut to his claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has privately promised to halt purchases of Russian oil. The decision folds a long-running trade dispute into the geopolitics of the war in Ukraine, with Trump arguing that cheaper imports and a…
Gold and silver investors woke up to a brutal reminder of how quickly political theater can become market reality. After months of record-breaking gains, a single remark from President Donald Trump about his choice to lead the Federal Reserve triggered a violent selloff that vaporized billions of dollars in precious metals wealth in hours. The…
Artificial intelligence is no longer just guessing where inflation might go next, it is increasingly embedded in the models that central banks, asset managers and corporations use to set prices, wages and investment plans. Those machine-driven forecasts are already shaping how much you pay for groceries, gadgets and rent, and how far your paycheck will…
The Biden administration’s 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles is supposed to shield Detroit and its union jobs from a wave of low cost imports. Yet the most telling verdict on that strategy may have come not from a politician, but from a Wall Street Journal columnist who spent two weeks with a Xiaomi sedan…
The Federal Reserve is edging toward a path that could leave it easing policy while many of its peers are either on hold or turning more restrictive. That divergence is at the heart of Nomura’s latest calls, which argue that the United States is heading for further rate cuts in 2026 even as Asia and…
Donald Trump has not just embraced crypto as a policy priority, he has personally tied his fortune and his presidency to it. His family’s digital asset empire, centered on World Liberty Financial and a web of foreign deals, now sits on top of a regulatory regime his own appointees control. If this latest conflict of…
The revelation that a powerful United Arab Emirates royal poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto venture has detonated a fresh political storm around President Donald Trump. At the center is World Liberty Financial, a digital asset company tied directly to the Trump Family, and a secretive stake that critics say…
Bitcoin traders are increasingly convinced that official inflation gauges are lagging reality, and that the real-time data they watch is already flashing disinflation. In their view, the gap between government statistics and alternative indicators is not a rounding error but a regime shift that could reshape Federal Reserve policy and fuel the next leg of…
Chinese electric vehicles are no longer a distant competitive threat, they are already reshaping the global auto market with prices and technology that U.S. manufacturers struggle to match. If Washington does not move beyond piecemeal tariffs and fragmented rules, the result will not just be cheaper cars for American drivers, but a hollowed out industrial…