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16 Jan 2026

The Greenland Bet

Another insider trader? This account just dropped $66K on a Greenland acquisition and also mysteriously won on U.S. strike bets Iran, Venezuela, others! Source: Jacob King Polymarket

16 Jan 2026

The Shanghai premium is screaming stress.

The Shanghai premium is screaming stress. Silver is now trading 9.4% higher in the East than in the West (see chart). Late 2025, you could dismiss this as temporary. That narrative is dead. In the East, silver is already triple digits and the West will soon follow. Source: Bloomberg, Karel Mercx

15 Jan 2026

Q4 earnings season officially kicks off yesterday.

Source: Brew markets

15 Jan 2026

Stocks keep making new highs, but commodities are telling a very different story.

The relative performance of commodities versus the S&P 500 is sitting near levels that have only shown up a few times in history. Those gaps didn’t last forever Source: SentimenTrader

15 Jan 2026

The average price of electricity per Kilowatt-hour in the United States.

Source: Koyfin @KoyfinCharts

15 Jan 2026

The Federal Reserve's 420 Billion Dollars Wall Street Bailout

The Fed has quietly delivered nearly HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS of no-strings-attached bank bailouts in the last few months, according to documents & data reviewed by @LeverNews . In all, the new bailouts are already 60% of the amount of the financial crisis TARP bailout. Source: David Sirota @davidsirota

15 Jan 2026

BREAKING: U.S. stock market has wiped out $650 billion in market value this week.

Nasdaq -1.40% Dow -1.21% S&P 500 -1% While Bitcoin is up 7%. BTC has added $130 billion, and the total crypto market has added $190 billion this week. Remember the stocks are at all time high, while Bitcoin is still down -23% from its ATH of $126k. Source: Bull Theory

15 Jan 2026

According to technical models, hashtag#silver $SLV should’ve stopped about 47 trendlines ago...

Source: Trend Spider

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