The British pound declined sharply on Friday, with 1.32 acting as resistance and bearish technical signals—including a potential death cross—reinforcing downside pressure.

The S&P 500 saw very little change week over week.

The Euro extends losses and tests levels below 1.1600 amid cautious markets.

Bitcoin is up 2% year to date, but the share price of the world’s largest holder of Bitcoin, Strategy, is down about 30% year to date.

Indian share markets are trading higher today, with the Sensex trading 223 points higher, and the Nifty is trading 63 points higher.

The Euro has eased slightly after peaking ahead of 1.1700, as reports suggest the EU may downgrade its 2026 growth outlook.

GBP/USD remains under pressure near 1.3200 as traders await UK inflation data, with technicals and policy uncertainty favoring a potential drop to 1.3015.

In a week when we should finally start to see US data releases coming through, it is important to note that the outcome of the next Fed rate decision in December looks better priced at a 50% chance of a cut.

The Nasdaq index lost momentum as another sell-off in the AI world came into focus.

How we trade needs to be a function of the type of market we're seeing.  Updating our perspectives each day--and sometimes within the day--allows us to trade flexibly and knowledgably.

I'm not sure the current 'tide' is finished going out, as they say, as we looked for in the mega-caps. However that's not to say the 'tide' doesn't move in 'waves', which means you can get rebounds even if low tide is in the future for those stocks.

The most important market that is yet to show evidence of declining liquidity is the one that is being supported to the greatest extent by passive money flows: the US stock market as represented by the SPX.

GLD gold price is set for its first weekly gain after three weeks of losses.

He said the shortage of qualified manual laborers isn't confined to Ford, but is something businesses across the nation are struggling with. 

For years MLPs have followed a pattern of strong performance early in the year. But it remains the case that purchases made late in the year are generally done at better prices than those done in the new year.

This article highlights the tight financial loop among Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, CoreWeave, and JPMorgan—where investments, cloud spending, chip supply, and underwriting feed into one another, creating a self-reinforcing AI ecosystem

There is still no indication that any plan exists to move off the fiat US dollar and return to any kind of actual gold standard. 

Markets don’t sleep over the holidays, but they do slow down. Historical trading patterns show consistent liquidity shifts from late November through early January.

Dividend growth stocks have historically generated superior returns with less volatility relative to stocks with flat dividends, stocks that reduce their dividend, and stocks that don’t pay dividends.

Solana price continued its strong downward trend, moving from the September high of $253 in September to the current $142.