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6 Jan 2026

Gold has overtaken the U.S. Dollar as the largest Global Reserve Asset 🚨🚨🚨

(of course performance helped) Source: Barchart, Bloomberg

6 Jan 2026

Bonds - not oil - were the play... Venezuela debt has doubled in the last 6 months.

Source: The Long View @HayekAndKeynes

6 Jan 2026

Bitcoin's longer term trend looks to be holding.

We haven't traded this much above the 50 day since all time highs... Source: The Market Ear, LSEG Workspace

6 Jan 2026

Speculators Are Moving Towards Commodities

Gold, gasoline, silver and copper have the largest net longs, along with emerging currencies related to resources, BRL and MXN. Chart below is in raw percentage terms, that is the net long position as a percentage of open interest. Source: zerohedge, Bloomberg, Macrobond

6 Jan 2026

The Queen has been dethroned

Inverse Cramer officially beats out Pelosi for the top portfolio on Autopilot Source: Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker

5 Jan 2026

LME Copper surges to $13,000 for the first time to new record high

Source: www.investing.com

5 Jan 2026

A new type of insider... the geopolitical insiders...

One of them bet $33k through Polymarkets on Venezuela-related developments and turned into $400k. It has been described as a "clear case" of insider trading. Source: Bloomberg

5 Jan 2026

Brussels we have a problem...

EU hit RECORD LNG imports in 2025 almost ALL from America! Russian gas? CRUSHED to zero US LNG (blue bars) exploded while Europe ditched Putin pipelines. Source: Jack Prandelli, S&P Global

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