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Bessent: 'I am confident' China will honor agreements on rare earths

What ??? We in the Antipodes have to do that regularly now that we're on daylight saving time and you lot in the northern hemisphere are off it. Sux big time, totally stuffs up everything to 2 hours later than normal. Think I'll go shack up with ...

Bessent: 'I am confident' China will honor agreements on rare earths

I think the Asian session is more run by the US trading desk juniors holding the fort, and/or the bots doing likewise. I don't put much store in what Asia does, but when Frankfurt and then the London crew get on board, that is certainly worth ...

Bessent: 'I am confident' China will honor agreements on rare earths

It's curious indeed that Bessent felt a need to "reassure". Always a reason to think the opposite is on the horizon. They can have all the metrics they like but China still holds the trump card, or should it be nuts? (oh dear that was an awful pun ...

Bessent: 'I am confident' China will honor agreements on rare earths

It's only a little gap, more a weekend liquidity issue methinks. NVDA earnings Wednesday. FOMC Wednesday too, then NFP data on Thursday. Going to be a rather roller-coaster week imo. Sometimes the side game is more profitable and safer than the ...

Bessent: 'I am confident' China will honor agreements on rare earths

Some nice juicy gaps on NQ (and S&P)

Why markets are suddenly on edge

Woohoo. Xmas bonuses coming up. One little catch, they gotta book profit.

Why markets are suddenly on edge

"Plain vanilla automation and not AI"? Seriously? How about tariffs forcing companies to lay off staff to maintain profitability PLUS AI (which surprise, surprise IS automation, duh).

Fed's Musalem: It's critical to return to having readily available official data that has...

Just be careful if you are long gold or silver. Use stops to lock in profit. Gold and silver are not considered "assets" as they yield no dividend, and have no capacity for meeting basic human needs, like food, energy, medicines etc. The precious ...

Why Gold Is Rising on US Government Reopening

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House to vote on bill to end shutdown around 7 p.m. ET Wednesday, Rep. Scalise says

"A team of economists at Morgan Stanley noted that, despite the rollbacks, Beijing has not unwound the export-control framework it introduced in April – to maintain a “calibrated choke-point in place.” This is the only relevant and genuine fact. ...

Tariffs thaw, rivalry simmers: U.S.–China trade truce enters uneasy phase

We can expect to hear a lot of sycophant talk from members of the Fed Board, including permanent appointees and the temporary 12 month lot. Exit stage left Powell come May, that leaves one permanent Chair position open and another permanent position ...

Miran says half-point cut ‘appropriate’ for December, but Fed should at least reduce by a...

If ever there was a reason to think this man never sat his own exams at school, never wrote his own essays, never even attended any kind of school in person but had someone else do it all for him, this is it. The dumb factor just keeps compounding ...

Trump: All money left over from the $2000 payments, will be used to substantially pay down...

It's more a case of low liquidity, making the PA fluctuate in either direction. Even when London opens, the PA (and TA) is not all that reliable. It's when US equities open that the real money calls the shots, often undoing whatever London has done, ...

US Senate Majority Leader Thune states that an agreement is nearly ready

Bessent already walking back on the latest great pronouncement Oh dear, you just KNOW it's all unraveling at the seams internally when something like this happens. His inner circle out of the loop, and they then ...

Trump: A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid...

Oh look! There's some men in white coats coming up the WH driveway. I wonder what they could possibly want ????

Trump: A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid...

Guess what? That's exactly what happened in Aussie. The political party that won, put the GST to the people at an election. It took 2 elections to educate people on the advantages but they did just that. Our GST replaced the wholesale sales tax, ...

Trump: It would be devastating if the Supreme Court rules against tariffs

How would anyone know? No NFP data for 2 months and none again Friday. So which is it, mild cooling in the labor market, but labor market is stable? Another round of double speak.

Fed's Goolsbee: indicators show a lot of labor market stability; I still think there is mild...

There's a vid game my daughter loves to play, called Horizon Zero Dawn. Aloy is the female heroine, battling the machines that see humans as the enemy and items to be obliterated. The machines replicate themselves. It's all too realistic a scenario ...

US October Challenger Report: 153,074 Job Cuts on Cost-Cutting & AI

It's a special kind of lunacy is it not? Companies cut jobs to increase profits. Then they load up on AI to cut hundreds of thousands more jobs. Just who is going to be buying your products when a large proportion of the population is out of work ...

US October Challenger Report: 153,074 Job Cuts on Cost-Cutting & AI