President Donald Trump praised Micron on Truth Social Thursday afternoon. He called it one of the “hottest” companies in the world. Micron Technology (MU) stock fell anyway.The post cheered a $10 bill

Elon Musk says SpaceX could reach about $3.5 trillion in annual revenue by 2033. Morgan Stanley’s model does not get there until 2040.His estimate beats the bank by seven years and lands slightly high

Peter Schiff renewed his “death spiral” warning on Strategy (MSTR), even as the stock jumped to $137.40 during a broader Bitcoin (BTC) rally. Michael Saylor answered with an AI-generated video of hims

Nvidia’s Q2 earnings topped expectations on August 26, with revenue of $96.2 billion beating the $92.2 billion Wall Street estimate. The chipmaker guided the current quarter to $108 billion. Nvidia (N

President Donald Trump praised Space Force on Truth Social on Tuesday. SpaceX (SPCX) stock rose 2.79% the same morning. The two facts look connected, but are they?SpaceX depends on Space Force contrac

The silver price trades near $69.38 after two failed attempts to break $70. Friday’s weekly close will decide the next direction.July inflation data arrives Wednesday, while Kevin Warsh delivers his f

Copper futures settled at $6.71 per pound on Comex on Tuesday, the highest closing price in the metal’s history. The debasement trade is lifting metals and crypto together.The trade describes investor

Gold price trades at $4,643.95 on Monday, a three-month high, after rallying roughly 17% off its July low. December COMEX futures topped $4,700 for the first time in more than three months.The move cl

Ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz jumped almost 400% in two weeks. The report landed on Saturday, with oil markets shut. Monday is the first chance traders get to price it.On the surface, that

Brent crude broke above $90 a barrel and rose 2.7% on Monday after President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Oman if the country interferes with talks over the Strait of Hormuz.The remarks landed as a

Bernstein has set Bitcoin (BTC) targets of $150,000 by mid-2027 and $300,000 by 2029. The case rests on US government debt, not the halving. The biggest Bitcoin catalyst, the broker argues, now sits i

XRP is leading a broader pullback in the crypto market on August 26, sliding roughly 6.6% over 24 hours to trade near $1.37, the worst performance among the top 10 cryptocurrencies.The decline follows

Bitcoin (BTC) has flipped into a new bull market regime, according to CryptoQuant, after its Bull Score surged from 30 to 80 in a single week. The firm calls it the fastest reversal in a year.One hurd

With Bitcoin up more than 20% since last week, traders are rotating into altcoins for larger gains. Three particular tokens, Kaspa, Solana, and Hyperliquid, are drawing renewed attention from market o

Katie Stockton, founder of Fairlead Strategies, said Bitcoin (BTC) has more room to run than gold right now. She pointed to how differently the two assets bottomed out.Stockton joined CNBC’s “The Exch

Ahead of the Fed’s September meeting, Stephen Miran, a former Federal Reserve governor, said a rate hike right now would be a mistake. He argued that recent inflation data are distorted, not genuinely

Elon Musk offered a blunt reaction to the AI safety debate early Sunday. He wrote that he hopes AI is nice to us, echoing a stark warning from investor Naval Ravikant.The post landed just a minute aft

Bank of America (BofA) economist Aditya Bhave is holding firm on his forecast for three Federal Reserve rate hikes this year, even after July’s inflation report matched Wall Street’s expectations.The

One number lands Wednesday morning, and Wall Street cannot agree on what comes next. The July CPI (consumer price index) will hit markets with September Federal Reserve (Fed) rate odds split down the

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO), Blackstone (NYSE: BX), Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) and KKR (NYSE: KKR) are lining up with Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) for a giant new round of AI spending that could eventually reach $500 billion. According to the Financial Times, the collaboration is expected to...

Japan’s 10-year government bond yield (JP10Y) touched 2.945%, its highest level since September 1996. The yen has since slipped back toward 159 per dollar, undoing almost half of this month’s rescue r

Japan is losing three financial battles at once as its currency, bond, and debt defenses fail together. The yen has erased most of a rare US-backed rescue, and Bitcoin (BTC) traders are bracing for th

Eurizon SLJ Capital says the dollar has peaked against the yen after the joint US-Japan yen intervention. The firm sees the yen reaching 125 per dollar, a gain of more than 20% from today.The market i

For years, one number told traders where the Japanese yen (JPY) was heading. That number was the gap between US and Japanese interest rates. Apollo Global Management says it no longer works.Chief Econ

Japan slashed its growth forecast for the current fiscal year to 0.9% on Thursday, blaming surging crude oil prices and a weaker yen for squeezing the import-dependent economy.The downgrade exposes ho

The S&P 500 edged lower despite favorable results from NVIDIA, which comfortably beat the market’s expectations, while core PCE inflation held steady in July.The cash session had closed nearly flat ho

The boldest S&P 500 forecast on Wall Street sees 9,000 by year-end, roughly 17% above where the index trades now. The fuel is the AI boom and a wall of idle cash.The warning is that the same AI trade

The S&P 500 closed down 0.52% on Monday while Bitcoin surged past $64,000, a sharp divergence just two days before the Federal Reserve releases its July meeting minutes.Markets are now in a holding pa

Three straight years of double-digit gains have not raised the odds of a Dow Jones Industrial Average pullback. That is the conclusion of MarketWatch contributor Mark Hulbert. The Dow’s historical bas

The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Thursday, lifted by a flat July producer price report. The reading further eased worries about a Federal Reserve rate hike next month.The benchmark index rose 0.

Rising bond yields pressured global stocks this week, while oil and gold extended their rallies. Catch up on the key market moves, what drove investor sentiment and the major risks traders should watch in the week ahead.

US CPI helped lift global markets this week, but sharp moves in oil and semiconductor stocks kept volatility elevated. Get the latest weekly market wrap, key drivers, major risks and what traders should watch next across stocks, commodities and currencies.