The Silver Miners ETF $SIL closed at a decade high on Friday, reaching a critical breakout level. 👇
Source: Oliver Groß @minenergybiz
Currency debasement is not a bug — it’s a feature of the fiat system.
Since Bretton Woods collapsed in 1971, not one of 152 countries has kept average inflation below 2%. Even Switzerland averaged 2.2%. Source: Global Markets Investors
The Goldman Sachs AI Leaders Basket
Consisting of the 9 leading AI stocks (semiconductors: Nvidia, TSMC), software/data center (Palantir, Oracle, Microsoft, Vertiv), and power/infrastructure (GE Vernova, Constellation, Vistra) has made 756% since ChatGPT launch in 2022, an avg of 122% per year! Source: Bloomberg, HolderZ
Some very important charts...
Goldman Sachs find that US import prices on tariffed goods have declined somewhat, suggesting that foreign exporters have absorbed some tariff costs by lowering their export prices to the US, unlike during the 2018-2019 trade war. Source: Goldman Sachs thru Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA
Harvard owns more Bitcoin than Alphabet/Google shares
Source: Documenting Bitcoin
The best performing stocks in the SP500 this year...
Source: Charlie Bilello
Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay 15% of China chip sales revenue to US government
According to this FT article, Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15 per cent of the revenues from chip sales in China, as part of an unusual arrangement with the Trump administration to obtain export licenses for the semiconductors. ▶️ The two chipmakers agreed to the financial arrangement as a condition for obtaining export licences for the Chinese market that were granted last week, according to people familiar with the situation, including a US official. The Financial Times reported on Friday that the commerce department started issuing H20 export licences on Friday, two days after Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang met President Donald Trump. The US official said the administration had also started issuing licenses for AMD’s China chip. ‼️ The quid pro quo arrangement is unprecedented. According to export control experts, no US company has ever agreed to pay a portion of their revenues to obtain export licences. But the deal fits a pattern in the Trump administration where the president urges companies to take measures, such as domestic investments, for example, to prevent the imposition of tariffs in an effort to bring in jobs and revenue to America. Link to article: https://lnkd.in/eZXmhSBP Source: FT
Record close for VanEck Gold Miners ETF $GDX on weekly basis, taking out the 2011 high.
Source: NDR, Rob Anderson on X
