Analysis

TradingKey - Since the US presidential election, gold trading has experienced persistent volatility, with President Trump's decisive victory initially triggering a sell-off as investors flocked to high-risk assets associated with his pro-growth agenda. 

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's pledge to contain yields on 10-year Treasury notes met some skepticism in the bond market on Thursday, as inflationary pressures and expectations of a widening federal deficit threaten to outweigh efforts to curb borrowing costs.

Did DeepSeek's artificial intelligence (AI) model really cost less than $6 million to make? If that's the case, it makes you wonder what big tech plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on this year, not to mention the massive $500 billion Stargate project that President Trump announced last...

Central banks around the globe have plenty of room to keep cutting interest rates, and a limited "decoupling" from the U.S. Federal Reserve could continue as it pauses its own policy easing, according to policymakers and analysts.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) stock has been in fine form on the market over the past three years, delivering healthy gains of 116% to investors and outperforming the 37% increase in the Nasdaq Composite index during the same period.

As of this writing, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) carries a gargantuan market cap of $3.4 trillion. This not only rivals the GDP figures of some large nations, but it makes the consumer technology business the world's most valuable enterprise.

A high-yielding dividend stock can be a great investment -- until it isn't. Just ask Walgreens Boots Alliance shareholders, who last month learned that the company was suspending its dividend. A year before, management slashed the payout. There were warning signs, such as poor earnings numbers, that

Tech giant Amazon (AMZN.US) released a mixed Q4 2024 earnings report after the market close. While revenue and profits exceeded expectations, disappointing guidance and soaring capital expenditures (CapEx) sent its stock tumbling over 7% in after-hours trading.

As the first nonfarm payrolls (NFP) report of 2025 approaches, the Federal Reserve’s rate cut prospects and markets such as gold and U.S. stocks face a critical test. Following unexpectedly strong ADP employment data, will the NFP report show signs of cooling as anticipated?

TradingKey - E-commerce is a booming industry. During the Covid-19 pandemic, it really took off but – in reality – even before 2020 global e-commerce revenue (as a total share of retail spend) had already been growing at a fast clip.

TradingKey - Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan stated on Thursday that the Fed may need to keep interest rates at their current levels for an extended period unless the labor market weakens significantly.

TradingKey - For tech investors, no other company exemplifies sheer size than Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN). The company pulls in over US$150 billion in sales per quarter due to its massive e-commerce business and cloud computing arm.

TradingKey - For GLP-1 drug manufacturers, growth can be seen everywhere. One of the two big global pharma companies that sells these drugs is Eli Lilly & Co (NYSE: LLY).

At its February monetary policy meeting, the Bank of England (BoE) cut interest rates by 25 bps as expected but warned of a strong inflation rebound in 2025 while lowering its economic growth forecasts. Analysts are divided on whether this rate cut signals a hawkish or dovish stance.

Shares of Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) rose 16.6% in January 2025, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The China-based e-commerce and cloud computing giant soared on the same news that drove Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) shares nearly 11% lower last month: the introduction of a new...

Cloudflare (NYSE:NET), a leader in network and cybersecurity services, delivered impressive results for Q4 2024, in its earnings release on Feb. 6, 2025. Revenue hit $459.9 million, surpassing both analyst expectations of $452 million and its own guidance of $451 to $452 million.

Amazon.com AMZN.O made a success of selling virtually everything online, but its superstore business model is becoming less compelling. The e-commerce giant competes with Microsoft MSFT.O in the cloud, Walmart WMT.N in retail, and Meta Platforms META.O and Alphabet GOOGL.O for advertising revenue.