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Viking Therapeutics Inc reported new clinical data for its oral obesity drug – sending shares sharply lower as investors balked at tolerability concerns and dropout rates.
In this video, Ira Epstein discusses the mixed performance of major stock indices on August 20, 2025, noting that while the Dow closed higher, most other indices were down, with some recovery in big tech stocks like NVIDIA and Netflix.
Stock market's gotten a little wobbly this week. I don't really think that's surprising given some of the things we've been talking about here more recently.
West Texas Intermediate, the US crude oil benchmark, is trading around $62.80 during the early Asian trading hours on Thursday. The WTI edges higher as US crude oil inventories fall more than expected.
The company began paying a quarterly dividend in 2019. The payout has risen every year by an impressive compound annual growth rate of 27%, though the increases have become considerably smaller in recent years.
In this video, I break down the PLTR chart and highlight the major support levels underneath and where one might buy this stock at during its current decline.
We finally saw the gold and silver pricing reverse course today. As after a multi-day sell-off, the prices rebounded higher, once again leaving gold near the $3,400 mark, and silver just under the $38 level.
Because markets have been posting small gains higher, it means they are vulnerable to any single day of heavy selling. The good news is that we haven't really seen that with any of the lead indices.
It’s not the kind of mix you’d call constructive - a Fed leaning hawkish on inflation while the market worries about job growth is a toxic recipe for risk.
Intuit (INTU) sits at a crossroads: weak technicals but strong analyst optimism ahead of its Aug 21 earnings. With a Trade Engine Score of 56.2, recurring revenue growth and guidance will be pivotal in shaping the next move
The minutes from the Fed meeting on 30 July do not indicate a rate cut is coming. We expect Fed Chair to be balanced-to-hawkish at his speech on Friday at the Jackson Hole Symposium.
A key question for market participants has been whether companies with high or low ESG scores outperform or underperform relative to their peers and the broader market benchmarks.
Last week, Ford revealed it has developed a new “universal EV platform”. This modular system could be just as revolutionary as the assembly line was over a century ago.
Tomorrow marks the start of the annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. For three days, they will discuss the big issues in monetary policy.
All 4 pure-play quantum computing R&D stocks are falling this week largely due to disappointing Q2 earnings and investor concerns about its financial trajectory.
It’s been a rough year for the residential property market, but the tide is turning favorable again, or so the recent rally in homebuilder shares suggest.
The auction prices at a high yield of 4.876%, down from 4.935% in July and stopped through the When Issued 4.877% by 0.1bps, the second consecutive stop through after 2 tails.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been hitting new record highs in recent sessions and is outperforming the other two major indices amid the weakness in the tech sector.
Following up on my Berkshire Hathaway comments from Monday’s post, here are weekly charts of the stock, followed by its performance versus the S&P 500.
Meta rolled out AI voice translation for Reels on Instagram and Facebook. The tool dubs spoken audio between English and Spanish, preserves the creator’s voice, and can optionally lip-sync to match mouth movements.
GBP/USD tumbles during the North American session, with traders shrugging off high inflation in the United Kingdom (UK) as the White House pressures Federal Reserve (Fed) Governor Lisa Cook to step aside from the board.
Amid strong selling pressure, the EUR/USD exchange rate has fallen to its lowest levels, near the 1.1630 support. The pair's losses came as the market's focus shifted to geopolitical developments and US-led efforts to mediate a deal in Ukraine.
In the second quarter of 2025, revenue fell 4% compared to last year, hitting 32.71 billion yuan ($4.56 billion), which was a little below what analysts were expecting.
A person does not really read Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary (1764)–or at least I don’t –but instead surfs through it from time to time, trying to hit some of the high spots.
Oil prices are higher this morning, bucking a broadly risk-off sentiment across markets, following API's report overnight showing US crude stockpiles declined last week.
The Canadian Dollar (CAD) steadies against the US Dollar (USD) on Wednesday, as political pressure on the Federal Reserve (Fed) drags the Greenback lower.
Global has paid annually dividends quarterly since June 3, 2021. The current forward-looking annual dividend of $2.10 yields 6.87% per Tuesday’s $30.58 share price.
We've finally seen the gold and silver miners rally this year. But when you think about what the institutional fund managers are looking at right now, it raises the question: Is the miner rally already over?
Gold is attempting a modest recovery after dipping to a three-week low earlier in the day, supported by a softer U.S. Dollar and easing US Treasury yields.
Newmont’s 85% surge signals gold’s defensive power, while MP Materials rockets 362.9% on record NdPr output—proof that production beats and policy tailwinds can fuel triple-digit returns.
