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.

Each week we run a DCF (Discounted Cash Flow) model on a company from our watchlist. This week’s pick: Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (DPZ).

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.

We discuss why markets may be entering a period of reckoning, as debt, geopolitics, and hard math collide.

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.

The largest gains in silver historically come late in the cycle, and the setup now suggests that phase has begun.

EUR/USD extends losses as robust U.S. jobs data fuels Dollar demand ahead of Nonfarm Payrolls.

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.

Time to calculate targets based on a measured move for gold and silver.

But it is very difficult to argue that AI is a bubble when the Big Tech hyper-scalers are trading at lower forward P/E ratios than Walmart or Costco.

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.

Companies with little or no revenue will lead the market, while profitable businesses with no clear AI leverage will continue to be ignored.

Tomorrow morning, we get the release of the December employment report on their normal schedule. Economists are predicting tepid data.