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With silver unable to hold gains above $80 an ounce, one Canadian bank is taking another crack at the short side of the market. On Wednesday, commodity analysts at TD Securities published their latest trade, saying they were shorting silver futures and looking for sharply lower prices within the next three months as market fundamentals start to balance out.

After the aborted 2024 rally sapped its momentum, and the tariff threats of early 2025 clouded its industrial demand picture, silver ultimately delivered on its promise this year, and then some, as prices gained 170% and counting. And while big banks and institutions are growing cautions with silver on the verge of $80 per ounce, many industry experts and a solid majority of retail traders see another standout year for the gray metal in 2026. Spot silver kicked off the year trading near $29.50 per ounce, after having closed 2024 with a pair of bounces right at the $29 support...

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. Assuming the markets close out the year without major volatility, gold holders can look forward to an approximate 70 percent increase in value within a single year. This is remarkable -- not least because 2024 already ended with a 26 percent gain for the otherwise conservative asset class of precious metals. That amounts to a doubling of value in just two years -- a surge...

The price of silver is about $78.65 as of Friday—a new high—according to the New York Commodity Exchange.Silver’s price surge has outpaced gold, though the more expensive metal’s price rose just over 1.2% to hit a high of $4,562.70 on Friday.

Silver’s market value has reached about $4.04 trillion, slightly higher than Apple’s $4.02 trillion at the close of trading on Wall Street on Tuesday. Silvetr prices kept climbing in global markets, with futures rising above $71 an ounce. This has taken silver’s gains this year to almost 150%, making it world’s third most valuable asset, moving ahead of Apple Inc, the CNBC reported. The top two spots of most valued assets globally are now held by Gold and Nvidia. Silver market capitalisation reaches $4.4 trillion. Silver’s market value has reached about $4.04 trillion, slightly higher than Apple’s $4.02 trillion at...

Banks and traders are expanding their precious metals desks and logistics capabilities as they race to capitalise on gold's historic rally this year, which has suddenly made the sleepy world of bullion trading and vaulting one of the most profitable areas in finance. The blistering rally in gold and silver prices in 2025 has had another burst of energy in recent days, powered by simmering geopolitical tension between the U.S. and Venezuela, as well as bets of US interest rate cuts. Both precious metals hit record-high prices Wednesday. The price of gold hit $4,500 a troy ounce for the first...

The artificial intelligence boom may not be as real as it seems. That's according to Pat Gelsinger, former CEO at Intel (INTC), who said the biggest players in AI are now funding their own growth. "The quality of that revenue that they're committing in the future simply isn't as good, right? Because essentially I'm buying my own future revenue. Because rather than you putting your capital at risk, I'm putting my capital at risk. Deals, investments, and credits are ricocheting between Microsoft (MSFT), OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), Google (GOOGL, GOOG), Anthropic (ANTH.PVT), and Amazon (AMZN), forming what Gelsinger calls "circular financing." The...

Profitability soared alongside it, with adjusted EPS climbing 60% and margins reaching an impressive 73.4%.Key PointsNvidia’s blowout quarter confirms AI demand is still accelerating.Palantir’s AIP adoption is surging as enterprises operationalize AI.Multiple simultaneous computing shifts are fueling a long-lasting AI boom.Nvidia’s Results Don’t Support the “AI Is Over” NarrativeMost striking was Nvidia’s data-center performance. Revenue from this segment hit $51.2 billion, up 66% year over year. That growth reflects real hardware orders from cloud providers, sovereign AI buyers, and large enterprises racing to scale their training infrastructure.Supply-chain analysts note that Blackwell-generation GPUs are being pre-ordered a year in advance, and...

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President Trump gave an extensive interview to Laura Ingraham, one of the primary advocates for the Ron DeSantis alligator emoji tribe. Ingraham did her best passive aggressive routine, positioning herself to antagonize yet appeal to the base of the DeSantis voter. The resulting interview is transparent in the agenda it represents.There is currently a rather extensive political operation afoot that has been rolling out for the better part of this year. The objective of the coalition is to fracture the MAGA base in a similar fashion to how the Tea Party movement was compromised in 2012.In March 2016, the same...

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On July 2, Amazon launched “Heads of State,” an action-comedy film starring Idris Elba and John Cena as the respective leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States. But the viewership data indicated that this was no traditional two-hander. Representatives for Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who plays a senior MI6 agent and the film’s third lead, used AI tools including Grok and ChatGPT to measure and analyze viewer sentiment; they found that their client was the main driver of the success of the movie — the fourth-most-watched Amazon MGM Studios film of all time on the platform — on the...

Most people not deeply involved in the artificial intelligence frenzy may not have noticed, but perceptions of AI’s relentless march toward becoming more intelligent than humans, even becoming a threat to humanity, came to a screeching halt Aug. 7.That was the day when the most widely followed AI company, OpenAI, released GPT-5, an advanced product that the firm had long promised would put competitors to shame and launch a new revolution in this purportedly revolutionary technology.As it happened, GPT-5 was a bust. It turned out to be less user-friendly and in many ways less capable than its predecessors in OpenAI’s...

China is leading the world in industrial robots or programmable machines that are pioneering fast and cost-effective manufacturing. China currently holds over 50% of the world market share in industrial robots capable of assembly, production line handling, service tasks, machine feeding, palletizing, packaging, and more. Automation is fueling Chinese manufacturing in every sector from automotives to electronics. The advancement of AI will soon provide China with a cutting-edge ability to usher in a new era of humanoid robots that will become a portion of the future workforce. China installed around 290,000 new industrial robots in 2024, nearly twice as many...

Experts have warned hackers recently used a generative AI tool to replicate several web pages belonging to the Brazilian government in an effort to steal sensitive personal information and money. The fake websites were examined by Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers, who discovered multiple indicators of the use of AI to generate code. The websites look almost identical to the official sites, with the hackers using SEO poisoning to make the websites appear higher in search results, and therefore seem more legitimate. AI generated government websites In the campaign examined by ThreatLabz, two websites were spotted mimicking important government portals. The first...

A new report from MIT’s NADA initiative reveals a sobering reality for corporate generative AI adoption: 95% of pilot programs are failing to deliver meaningful financial impact. Titled The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, the study is based on 150 interviews with business leaders, a survey of 350 employees, and an analysis of 300 public AI deployments. It highlights a stark divide between successful AI integrations and stalled initiatives that offer little to no return on investment [1]. According to the research, only 5% of AI pilots result in rapid revenue acceleration. The majority of projects remain...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that the billions of dollars being plowed into the artificial intelligence arms race risks causing a bubble comparable to the dot-com crash of the early 2000s. “When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth,” Altman said during a dinner with a group of journalists, The Verge reported on Friday. “Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes. Is AI the most important thing to happen in a very long time? My opinion is also yes.” Altman likened the AI funding rush...

A top Wall Street economist is sounding the alarm on sky-high valuations in AI stocks — and drawing comparisons to the tech bubble of the late 1990s. "Yes, AI will do incredible things for all of us," Torsten Sløk, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, said on Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid. "But does that mean I should be buying tech companies at any valuation?" According to Sløk, the answer is increasingly no. In a research note to clients this week, he pointed to internal data showing the price-to-earnings ratios (P/E) of the 10 largest companies in the S&P 500 —...

Following in the footsteps of NFL star Tom Brady, Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, and the mayor of Flavortown, David and Victoria Beckham have reportedly purchased a Miami Beach mansion for a posh $60 million.The couple’s rumored new stateside “Beckingham Palace” features 9 bedrooms, as well as the run-of-the-mill pool, spa, gym, and cinema that come almost as standard among the area’s sprawling waterfront estates. Whether it will hold its value, even with all of those amenities, is another question altogether.Indeed, the annual UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index for 2024, which analyzes residential property prices in 25 major cities worldwide,...

Three years into Joe Biden’s presidency, reporters who cover the administration know what to expect when first lady Jill Biden appears: nothing. The president, 81, has held the fewest press conferences or formal interviews of any modern commander-in-chief — leaving Biden’s jaunts across the White House South Lawn to and from his Marine One helicopter as the best chance for the press corps to get some face time. When Biden is alone, he is far easier to bait with shouted questions, sometimes shuffling over around midnight for a give-and-take — despite the unflattering overhead TV lights forcing him to hold...