Its been a difficult couple of days for equity investors, particularly if you are exposed to technology stocks and given the weighting of the Mag 7, on a global basis, that’s pretty much everybody.

In times like this I find it useful to look at things from a top down perspective, tables like those shown below are helpful in this…[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]

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]

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]

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]

The talk around the markets this morning is about the US$ and specifically its weakness.

The Dollar index has fallen by -3.0% in just a few sessions part of a near -12.0% fall seen over the last year.

Dutch bank ING believe the US currency can weaken further and that in their words “it makes no sense to stand in the way ”

Of course…[Read more]

You may recall that back on January 14th I picked South Korea to be the market/index that would outperform the S&P 500 over the course of 2026.

Using EWW, the South Korea iShares MSCI ETF, as a yard stick we are off to a good start, in fact I believe the ETF is up by more than +30.0% since I wrote this piece

See…[Read more]

Just under a fortnight ago I wrote on silver. At that point the precious metal was testing above $90.0 per troy ounce, last nigh it spiked to a new high of $117.0 per ounce.

See here https://invesdaq.com/members/fatdaz/activity/430/

At the same time I mentioned Fresnillo FRES LN, as ideal way for UK retail clients to play the silver rally.…[Read more]