The American financial community is divided into three camps regarding interest rate adjustments: • No rate cuts in the current year. • Rates will be cut, but not now (timing uncertain). • A rate cut at the next meeting. The most probable and reasonable scenario is a single rate cut before the...

Comex futures rose 17% immediately (to $5.8955), a record since the contract was launched in 1988. As a result, on July 8, the premium relative to similar futures in London increased to an incredible 25% (over $2000). Recall: Australia is one of the largest exporters of copper. The rise in price...

Geopolitical instability — including US-China trade wars and tensions in the Middle East — increases demand for gold as a safe-haven asset. Gold prices have been rising steadily since the beginning of the year, supported by consistent demand from global central banks and inflows into safe-haven ass...

Of course, the starring role in this show of grateful viewers went to American voters. The problem is that so far, apart from beautiful statements, preliminary negotiations, and other empty noise, nothing significant has happened. In fact, there are only partial agreements with Vietnam, the UK, and...

Bitcoin received a boost of optimism from increased risk appetite after the US and Vietnam announced a trade deal. Officials from Trump's team said that a deal with India is close to being finalized, but negotiations with Japan and South Korea appear to have stalled. This information should not be t...

The positive driver was not only the interest in Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla, but also a shift in trade relations between the US and Vietnam. The US agreed to impose 20% tariffs on some Vietnamese imports, which unexpectedly boosted optimism. But only briefly. July 9 is just around the corner, and the...

More than 130 publicly traded corporations currently own more than 3.2% of BTC worth $87 billion, and that's not including mining companies. The marketing of such businesses is most often not related to cryptocurrencies, but copies the accumulation strategy that has led to a significant increase in ...

Let's start with the political events that shocked dollar. First, market reacted to an airstrike by the US Air Force on targets of Syrian armed groups supported by Iran (according to Pentagon). Officially, this action (of deaths from 17 to 27 people) was a response to repeated attacks by militants ...

The opening of the week is strongly linked to market hopes for a quick economic recovery as some countries begin lifting quarantine measures. Most isolation measures have already been lifted in Israel, today Johnson will announce a roadmap to lift quarantine measures in Britain. Let's break with t...

US Senate did not want to save the budget on pensions, security and other benefits for the 45th president: only 57 senators supported Trump's second impeachment, and 67 votes were needed to approve the decision. Summons and interrogations of additional witnesses would take more than one day, so we d...