Is Bitcoin slipping into a ‘Crypto Winter’?

Both gold – digital and real – have fared badly over the past week.

As gold crashed from $5,600 to $4,600 in a matter of hours, Bitcoin took its time. Still, the direction of its travel recently mirrors that of the precious metals: Down.

On Wednesday, Bitcoin slumped to its lowest level since lat…[Read more]

Two days ago I suggested that Unilever ULVR LN (or UNA NA), might benefit from the strength in US Consumer Staples.

see https://invesdaq.com/members/fatdaz/activity/515/.

The chart below shows the percentage change in both listings of Unilever, over two days.

And by my math they are up +4.0% that may not sound much but its more than…[Read more]

Are we seeing a growing shift into defensives?

The power of AI is hitting the corporate world.

Just this week, many previously stable large-cap data, analytics and software-related business (eg RELX, LSEG, SAP) were hammered into long-term lows. The fear is that generative-AI is expected to take future profits away from these tech firms.…[Read more]

The last few weeks have been a wild ride, driven by a changeable macro background and extreme volatility within precious metals.

However the S&P 500 Consumer Staples sector has been rallying in the background ,the whole time.

In fact, it’s up +9.39% over 1 month and by + 11.30% over 3 months

Not a bad return from stocks which are…[Read more]

Tungsten maintains record rally

While gold and silver prices are melting down, one commodity extends its record-breaking rally on Monday. That’s Tungsten.

The industrial metal is a grayish-white element, labelled under ‘W’ in the periodic table. “Wolfram” is Tungsten’s former name.

Tungsten has many useful properties, such as highest mel…[Read more]

I talked about the spike in US Nat Gas prices last week, and I explained that artic weather across the North and mid-West US was a large contributing factor to that spike.

We can that relationship in operation today.

Last week temperatures in Chicago were -14C / -15C, today the forecasts are for a balmy -5.0C.
Nat Gas has traded lower…[Read more]

On Friday (30-01-26) morning I wrote:

“It will be interesting to see if the sell off continues this afternoon, and or into next week, or whether the structural issues in the market , and end user demand, support the silver price. For now as we can see in the chart below the path of least resistance remains to the downside.”

And though we had a…[Read more]

RELX extends cyclical bear trend into multi-year lows

The power of AI is now impacting many companies’ share prices.

One such stock is the multi-billion publishing and analytics company Relx (ticker: REL), a component of the prestigious FTSE 100.

If you look at its long-term share price, you’d think that AI has completely obliterated its ent…[Read more]

For now at least it looks like the commodity trade is taking a breather with gold and silver both sharply lower this morning that shakeout comes after spot Silver traded at new all time highs of $121.60 last night.

As Trading Economics puts it:

“Silver tumbled 17% toward $95 per ounce on Friday, retreating from all-time highs as investors…[Read more]

Unless I am very much mistaken thats a gain of $26.00 in Freeport Mcmoran FCX US since the 12/01/2026.

And to be honest looking at the gap and the bold green candle on todays chart I feel they could go higher yet.

Albemarle are down by 7.50% after comments from Treasury Secretary Bessent on the US dollar speaking to CNBC he said :

“The U.S. always has a strong-dollar policy and isn’t intervening in currency markets”

This follows on from comments by President Trump yesterday, that he wasn’t concerned about the weakness in the US currency .

Bessent’s…[Read more]

US Dollar slumps against major currencies

Financial markets are always full of surprises. Many old timers will attest to this.

“Thirty years ago,” wrote Buffett in 1994,” no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union…[Read more]