Review The Labor Department’s July jobs report showed that the economy lost 23,000 jobs last month, a big shortfall versus the gain of 83,000 that economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had expected. Revisions to May and June payroll numbers showed that the economy added 103,000 fewer jobs in those two months. —Matt Grossman, “U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs…
Oil has opened for the week’s futures trade on Globex, up around 2% after a tense weekend !“#$%&‘()*+,–./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}
United States CFTC Gold NC Net Positions: $197.6K vs $182.1K
Newmont stock has suddenly become one of the more interesting large-cap mining charts I am watching. NEM closed Friday at $112.98 after gaining more than 20% on the weekly candle, following an aggressive reversal from the lower boundary of a descending channel that has contained the stock since its early-2026 peak. My read is bullish, but with an important…
United States CFTC S&P 500 NC Net Positions fell from previous $-17.2K to $-27.3K
Trump says a rate hike isn’t completely up to Warsh, it’s up to the Board !“#$%&‘()*+,–./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}
United States CFTC Oil NC Net Positions dipped from previous 120.1K to 112.4K
US CPI lands Wednesday after payrolls contracted and Iran ruled out talks. Six weighted lanes, ATR-sized levels, and the first published projections above gold’s chart.
Mon: BoJ Summary of Opinions Tue: RBA Announcement Wed: German Final Inflation (Jul), IEA OMR, OPEC MOMR, US CPI (Jul) Thu: Norges Bank Announcement, UK GDP (Q2), US PPI (Jul) Fri: EZ Employment (Q2) and GDP 2nd Estimate (Q2), US Retail Sales (Jul), US University of Michigan Prelim (Aug) BoJ Summary of Opinions (Mon): The BoJ will release the…
Japan CFTC JPY NC Net Positions climbed from previous ¥-163.4K to ¥-45.5K
