Oil Demand Recovery Is Under Way But U.S.-Iran Escalation Clouds Outlook, IEA Says
Consumption is projected to fall by 1 million barrels a day this year, but the pace of decline is easing.
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Oil Posts Weekly Gains on Renewed Middle East Skirmishes
Oil futures ended the week higher on a renewal of military strikes by the U.S.
Gold is in the middle of a historic rally. The Goldman Sachs Physical Gold ETF (CBOE:AAAU) provides direct exposure to the metal’s price at a lower cost, while VanEck Gold Miners ETF (NYSEMKT:GDX) offers leveraged potential through equity in the companies that extract it.
Gold has long been viewed as a store of value,
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks ticked higher Friday after Wall Street showed its appetite is still big for winners of the artificial-intelligence boom.
The S&P 500 rose 0.4% to close out its fourth winning week in the last five. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 149 points,
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TQQQ surged 81% over the past year and UPRO 55%, helping push U.S. leveraged ETF assets from $120B to over $200B.
A 10% index drop triggers over $10B in mechanical selling, as leveraged ETFs now overwhelm the stabilizing gamma of covered-call products.
SK Hynix, one of the world’s largest makers of memory chips, is hitting the U.S. stock market at a time when demand for its chips is outpacing its ability to make them thanks to the frenzy over artificial intelligence.
The company is already one of the largest in South Korea, along with Samsung Electronics,
Next week, several exchange-traded fund companies plan to hit the market with the latest ETFs, offering a way to add leverage to bets on single stocks, in this case, on the South Korean chip giant SK Hynix, which began trading in the U.S.
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The Federal Reserve held its ground on interest rates this week, but the language coming out of the building was anything but neutral. New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh used his first FOMC meeting to deliver a clear message: inflation is still too high, and the central bank isn’t going to blink.
Bitcoin apparently liked what it heard.
