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Gold Surges As Central Banks Brace For Global Debt Storm
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (588+ words) Submitted By Thomas Kolbe The gold price is racing from one all-time high to the next. That's good news for friends of the precious metal and bad news for anyone still hoping for a stabilization of global debt dynamics." A…...
Strong 7Y Treasury Sale Sends Yields To Session Low In Final 2025 Auction
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (461+ words) Strong 7Y Treasury Sale Sends Yields To Session Low In Final 2025 Auction After two poor, disappointing coupon auctions earlier this week, when global yields were surging thanks to the circus that is Japan, we have come to the final note auction…...
Futures Flat With Early Close On Deck
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (463+ words) In premarket trading, Mag 7 stocks trade mixed after four straight days of gains (Alphabet +0.5%, Tesla +0.2%, Amazon +0.1%, Microsoft little changed, Apple -0.2%, Meta -0.3%, Nvidia -0.4%) In other corporate news, Sanofi agreed to buy Dynavax Technologies for about $2.2 billion, as the French drugmaker tries…...
Chicago's Guaranteed Income Guarantees Less Opportunity
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (770+ words) Authored by Josh Bandoch via RealClearPolitics, There have been more than 150 guaranteed income pilot programs implemented across the country, but only one has made its program permanent " Cook County, Illinois. The county, which includes Chicago, became the first place in…...
Q3 GDP Unexpectedly Surges To 2 Year High On Soaring Health Insurance Spending
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (228+ words) The number was higher than all but one economist forecasts, and was a 3-sigma beat to the median consensus of 3.3% According to the BEA, the increase in real GDP in the third quarter reflected increases in consumer spending, exports, and'government…...
US Industrial Production Rises At Strongest Annual Rate Since Apr 2022
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (71+ words) ...as capacity utilization slides. Is this the productivity boost everyone's been waiting for? US Manufacturing output was unchanged in November, but better than the 0.4% MoM decline in October, as Motor Vehicles & Parts fell 5.1% MoM while Utilities jumped 2.6% MoM. Make sure…...
23 US States Are At High Risk Of (Or In) Recession Currently
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (268+ words) U.S. GDP is made up of many smaller, distinct state economies fueling national growth. In 2025, states responsible for about a third of U.S. GDP are in recession, or face high recession risk. Another third are expanding, including Florida and Utah, based on…...
Insane Financial Imbalances And Social Revolution
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (693+ words) Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Patient users of AI programs can force AI to admit its output was a hallucination, at which point AI tends to abjectly apologize. But human pride--especially strong among those with high…...
Yields Hit Session Highs After Poor, Tailing 2Y Auction Sees Lowest Foreign Demand Since 2023
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (204+ words) It's the last treasury auction week of the year, and due to upcoming holidays, we are running on an accelerated scheduled which means the 2Y auction which usually takes placed on Tuesday, is Monday's business instead. It was a subpar auction…...
A Christmas Carol For The Markets, 2025 Edition
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (642+ words) By'Elwin de Groot,'Head of Macro Strategy at Rabobank As the year draws to a close, Ebenezer "Macro" Scrooge looks back on an eventful 2025. Sitting alone in his glass-walled office on Christmas Eve, the city below twinkling like a Bloomberg…...