Gold, silver, and mining stocks fell sharply, suggesting a short-term peak. Bearish chart patterns point to declines toward support before a possible long-term recovery.

Dow Inc. ​​​cut its dividend due to the impact of a prolonged chemical industry downturn, poor financial results, leverage, tariffs, and trade uncertainty. The firm’s dividend has been constant since Q2 2019, and it was eventually cut this year.

For the 58 S&P 500 members that have reported Q3 results, total earnings are up +15.4% from the same period last year on +8.0% higher revenue, with 86.2% beating EPS estimates and 79.3% beating revenue estimates.

Oracle stock tumbled 6.5% on Friday, wiping billions from the market value of the enterprise software giant as investors parsed the company’s long-term AI and cloud ambitions against the short-term costs of scaling.

Zions Bancorporation nosedived this week after reporting a $50 million write-off tied to fraudulent loans. The sell-off wiped over $1 billion off its market cap in recent sessions.

Although Netflix has continued to grow into what was a much loftier valuation, its Q3 report will need to reconfirm the company's enticing outlook.

Given the stunning ascent of the gold and silver prices over the last few weeks, at some point there was going to have to be a day when they didn’t soar higher yet again. And at least as of midday Friday, so far that day is today.

Gold’s mighty cyclical bull just grew into its biggest ever. Midweek gold’s massive bull over these past couple years eclipsed its famous popular speculative mania into January 1980.

Beneath its predictable, dividend-paying surface, Coca-Cola has been quietly shifting gears. 

This week’s trading underscored how quickly sentiment can shift amid conflicting headlines.

Emerging markets have outperformed all major U.S. indexes.