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Meta stock fell about 3% on Monday, trading at $767.10 at press time. The stock had been climbing last week, but Monday saw some investors pull back after a string of gains.
Note that near-month futures for coffee are roughly the same in July as in January. This suggests that to a first approximation, tariffs are explaining the jump in coffee prices.
Back in 1974, in the aftermath of the OPEC oil embargo, the National Maximum Speed Law was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
From early April through early August, Nvidia stomped its way relentlessly higher, more than doubling in price and curb-stomping anyone who dare got in its way.
On Monday, we are seeing somewhat volatile price action in the gold and silver markets, even if the prices have ended up in roughly the same area in which they started.
In this video, Ira Epstein discusses the recent developments in the financial markets as of August 18, 2025, focusing on geopolitical tensions involving Ukraine and the potential peace talks facilitated by President Trump.
Stocks finished the day flat, in a fairly uneventful day. It was the lightest volume day on the S&P 500 futures since July 3, a half-day. Just 821,000 contracts traded today.
Deluxe Corp has paid variable dividends quarterly since September 5, 1989. The current forward-looking annual dividend of $1.20 yields 6.22% per Friday’s $19.29 share price.
Gold price traded sideways on Monday as traders await the meeting between Trump, Zelenskiy, and European leaders in Washington following last week's summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
US Treasuries traded heavy on Monday, on a day of complexities and different cross winds that makes interpretation tough. Bunds remain a good safe asset to hide for any US-driven turmoil, which can help keep yields close to swaps.
The options market just dropped a bomb. While Bitcoin sits in its comfort zone around $61k, someone just bought 40,000 put contracts in a single trade. That's $2.4 million betting Bitcoin breaks down.
Volatility remains depressed at the 15 level which is very typical during a mature bull market. Until proven otherwise, forays above 20 are buying opportunities for stocks.
If tariffs were the culprit, we could reverse the inflation by simply ditching them. It would be a problem with an easy solution. Unfortunately, that’s not what’s happening here.
The Dow finished marginally lower, but managed to pare steeper losses. The S&P 500 joined the blue-chip index in the red --albeit also marginally -- while the Nasdaq eked out a win.
Japan is one of three countries trading at fresh all time highs. While notable on its own, Japan's rally is even more impressive when put in the context of the past several decades.
The USD/JPY outlook points to a stronger dollar as traders await the outcome of a meeting between Trump and Zelensky. At the same time, market participants were gearing up for the Jackson Hole symposium.
Applied Materials dropped sharply during the week ending August 15th triggered by a combination of disappointing guidance, analyst downgrades, and broader industry concerns.
With earnings season on its last leg, it is worth investing in companies with earnings beat potential. We have identified four stocks that are poised to trump earnings estimates this season.
Perplexity AI made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid in all cash for Alphabet Inc.’s Google Chrome on Tuesday. Google did not respond to media outreach on the story, but the news comes after a long road to a potential split with the Internet browser
With the outsized jump in the PPI, the natural question to ask is whether this implies a jump in the CPI. The evidence is mixed in terms of the aggregate PPI and the aggregate CPI, as noted in this post.
Both housing spending and motor vehicle purchases have declined in recent months. The longer trend in real spending on motor vehicles has been flat since the turn of the year.
The Bolivian central bank has been buying gold from local miners, having it refined abroad (in Turkey), and then liquidating the bullion for dollars to service its debt.
The Canadian Dollar (CAD) surrenders all of its intraday gains against the US Dollar (USD) on Monday, as the Greenback stages a modest recovery ahead of high-profile Trump–Zelenskyy talks later in the day.
The oil market is edging higher as traders have recorded the first ever short position in West Texas Intermediate, with the overall net long position down 4,000 in Brent crude to around 207,000.
The U.S. dollar is mostly consolidating today in quiet turnover. Among the G10 currencies, the dollar-bloc, which underperformed before the weekend, are firmer today, while the other G10 currencies are softer.
Fed funds futures are still pricing in a 1/4-point cut next month, and so the economy-is-slowing narrative seems to have the upper hand for the moment.
Markets have amped up rate-cut expectations for both this year and next, with some even ludicrously calling for a 50-basis-point reduction in next month’s FOMC meeting.
The healthcare sector, particularly managed‑care insurers, has been under pressure recently, driven by rising medical costs, regulatory scrutiny, earnings disappointments, and reputational challenges.
The Shanghai Composite Index climbed 0.85 percent to 3,728.03, reaching a ten-year high. The Nikkei rose 0.77 percent to 43,714.31, hitting a record high.
The U.S. Dollar versus the Euro is sitting right at a key level. A topside break of 1.17 Euro-USD would mean there's medium term upside potential to 1.24.
The inflation headlines drove stock prices mainly because of their effect on the expectations for how much and when the Federal Reserve will be setting interest rates through the end of 2025.
