“How about everybody drop the politics for a couple of hours...”

"There's some light at the end of the tunnel for the winter-weary East Coast." 

 

Devon Energy and Coterra Energy announced on Monday a definitive agreement to merge and create a premier shale operator in an all-stock transaction, implying a combined enterprise value of about $58 billion.  

Rightward lurch in Latin America continues strong amid rise in narco-crime...

Though it still seems unlikely at this stage, if the reserve status of the dollar was genuinely threatened it would dramatically reduce the freedom to manoeuvre of US policy makers grappling with that “unsustainable” fiscal trajectory.

From pressure campaign to huge breakthrough...

“You don’t have to be a genius... just don’t be a schmuck.”

“Due to the partial federal government shutdown, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will suspend data collection, processing, and dissemination.”

Outspoken Russian hawk is urgently offering an olive branch.

The NTSB found that ’systemic failures’ led to a fatal 2025 midair collision near Washington...

Silver is at its most oversold level since July–August - with ~6% daily moves priced in.

As Trump cranks up the deportation machine, Arizona Dems meltdown over a new mega-facility...

"I came to buy because the price of gold dropped today..."

...Goldman, Deutsche, and JPMorgan all remain bullish on central banks' buying bullion.

Trade boring SPX or this beast of volatility index?

Democratic leaders have jumped the shark on ICE and are now trying to outdo each other with increasingly reckless rhetoric...

Whales holding at least 1,000 BTC are now back at December 2024 highs, reinforcing the view that large players are absorbing supply while smaller holders continue to exit...

Europe is growing uneasy over its heavy reliance on U.S. LNG, with EU officials warning that energy security risks are shifting rather than disappearing...

We will get a dense run of US macro releases, with the January jobs report set to dominate attention on Friday. We also have the ISM surveys, consumer sentiment and the latest Treasury’s quarterly refunding details

This was the biggest MoM surge in the ISM print since April 2020 (COVID rebound)...