Category: Featured Content
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Make or break for silver?
Silver (XAGUSD) remains consolidated after making a one leg down move with the price breaking below $24.50 and then retesting this breakdown zone. This move lower was not a surprise to our readers given my analysis on gold. Silver tends to follow gold rather than copper even though most consider silver a more industrial metal…
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Screw you, Standard Uranium (STND.V) is on the way back
Standard Uranium (STND.V) was on the ropes, I’m not gonna lie. They went all in on a prospect in the Athabasca Basin and gathered a strong crew and fought the cold and did the work and rolled the dice, but what happened on the end of all that is what often happens in the mining…
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Gold below $1900? Gold breaks critical technical support on hawkish Fed
Gold and other precious metals were rocked last week and have broken below critical technical levels as the likelihood of a Fed soft landing diminish and the likelihood of a recession increases. In the month of June, the Fed ‘paused’ raising interest rates, but Powell did mention the Fed is looking to raise rates two…
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Canada’s largest uranium producer Cameco breaks out as uranium price rips!
Cameco is on a run due to uranium’s good fortune. In previous uranium articles, I spoke about how the technical charts were hinting at some downside. This did occur and charts we use to assess the uranium price hit our support levels, or price floor. Uranium itself was at a key psychological level testing the…
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Stock markets approach key resistance. Is a new downtrend about to begin?
What a month it has been for US stock markets. US markets have been in hard rally mode since June 1st 2023, with the Nasdaq seeing its rally begin on May 24th 2023. A few other markets in the world are joining in on the party. Japan’s Nikkei continues to break decades long records largely…
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SEC Lawsuits Against Binance and Coinbase: A Damning Indictment of the Cryptocurrency Concept?
In an unprecedented move signaling increased scrutiny of the cryptocurrency industry, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed lawsuits against leading crypto exchanges, Binance and Coinbase. Allegedly, both exchanges knowingly violated securities laws, prompting the debate: is the entire concept of cryptocurrency fundamentally flawed, or even a sham? The SEC contends that Binance,…
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Short sellers still strong at TD Bank – are we missing something?
Short sellers still have a concerning percentage of the share float at TD Bank (TD.T), totalling 22% as of May 31, 2023 according to the Short Sale Trading Summary Report published by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada or IIROC. TD Bank already made headlines when the Canadian-based financial institution was reported as the…
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Japan’s Nikkei near 20 month highs, closes above 30,000
While US stock markets, European stock markets, and many other Asian stock markets continue to chop around and range, one market in Asia is on a tear. Japan is drawing in investor money and it really all began with the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett. I recently gave my thoughts and technical levels on Japan…
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Home Depot posts worst revenue miss in 20 years, signs of recession?
Home Depot (HD) reported fiscal first quarter 2023 earnings which mostly missed estimates and has raised concerns that the consumer is being tapped out. Put it another way in our consumer based economy, are signs of an economic slowdown or recession increasing? This has been on the mind of investors ever since the Fed has…
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Palantir (PLTR) stock rips over 20% on earnings and unprecedented AI demand
This year, one of the largest sector momentum trades was/is AI. The US markets saw AI stocks pop to kick off 2023. Take for example C3.ai under the ticker AI: BigBear.ai under the ticker BBAI: We saw the same pop move in Canadian AI names such as FOBI AI: Big pops at the beginning of…