Mark Zuckerberg has been aggressively repositioning Meta Platforms' focus and spending toward AI, particularly to achieve "personal superintelligence" that enhances existing apps like Facebook and Instagram and, of course, boosts revenue.

Stocks are a mixed bag as 2025 winds down, with the tech sector particularly choppy.

With silver and gold both surging significantly higher over the past couple of weeks, a correction was inevitable.

Silver shot up 7% this morning, and I watched everyone scramble to explain why. China wants delivery. Overnight futures pressure. Global demand. Inflation hedge.

Oil prices are experiencing a notable upswing, driven by surging global demand and renewed optimism surrounding potential diplomatic breakthroughs.

In 2025, energy markets were driven less by policy narratives and more by hard constraints - supply, infrastructure, economics, and reliability reasserted control over prices, investment, and the pace of transition.