Nasdaq, Inc. stock is up over 16.4% in the last two months, and up +2.6% this year. One attractive play is to sell short out-of-the-money puts in nearby expiry periods.

In this article, I do an update on the overall economy and focus on the components of a crucial employment indicator that will be updated as part of Friday’s jobs report.

Again, the dominant theme for the global economy today is the arms race for AI supremacy between the U.S. and China. And this race is igniting a major bull market in hard assets.

Shaking off its early morning uncertainty, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is charging higher this afternoon, tapping another record high.

Silver surged into the new year with fresh momentum, celebrating a break above the $80s and showing strong technical patterns that reflect renewed bullishness in the metal and its broader market implications.

Google remains in a powerful uptrend, with corrective lows supporting further bullish extension toward new upside targets.