THIRD WAVE OF THE US DOLLAR CYCLE
Interesting comment by Crescat Capital: ‘We think the gold panic on Friday on the announcement of Kevin Warsh as the new Fed Chair caused a healthy pullback from short-term overbought conditions in the precious metals markets. While Warsh may appear the least dovish among President Trump’s candidates, we believe he is indeed in favor of lowering interest rates in 2026, as the President has also affirmed. Investors in Crescat’s portfolio of undervalued precious and critical metals miners should not be too concerned. Our activist mining portfolio outperformed gold, silver, and the gold equity benchmarks, both on Friday and cumulatively for the month of January. Still, the gold correction was no small matter. We think it presents a buying opportunity. In fact, now, as much as ever, is the time for gold investors not to panic but to step back and look at the big picture’. Source: Crescat Capital
S&P 500 Drawdowns Under New Fed Chairs
Source: Bloomberg, Sam Ro, alexandraandnyc
The new merger between xAi and SpaceX means the following are all under one company
The new merger between xAi and SpaceX means the following are all under one company: - SpaceX rockets, with 90% market share of launching mass into orbit. - Starlink, the only global telecommunications system. - Starshield, another version of Starlink for the US military which enables the US military to communicate around the planet without using the telecomm systems of any other country. - xAi, Grok - X (formerly Twitter) Source: Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt WallStreetMav (@Wall Street Mav)
Waymo just confirmed it has raised $16 Billion at a $126 Billion valuation
Source: Evan on X
Corporate Insiders are dumping shares at the fastest pace in 5 years
Source: Bloomberg
The average drawdown in the first 6 months of a new Fed Chair is 15%.
The market likes to test them... Source: NDR, RBC
Markets in Asia are getting shredded on Monday.
Indonesia and Korea down over 5% each; commodities tossed out the window Source: David Ingles
Gold vs S&P total return.
A rock has outperformed the collective genius of the US capital markets by more than 100% Source: zerohedge
