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MMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING DECEMBER 8, 2025
December 5, 2025
by Gianni Di Poce, MMA Analyst REVIEW A key inflation measure was lower than expected in September, the Commerce Department said Friday in a report delayed by the government shutdown that gives a further green light for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. — Jeff Cox, “Core Inflation Rate...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING DECEMBER 1, 2025
November 28, 2025
REVIEW Allies of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have laid the groundwork for him to push a rate cut through a divided committee at next month’s meeting even though it could draw multiple dissents. The unusual level of division inside the Fed means that, to an even greater degree than...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING NOVEMBER 24, 2025
November 21, 2025
NOTE: This week’s free weekly column will be written by MMA Analyst Pouyan Zolfagharnia. Pouyan is the editor of the MMA Cycles Plus monthly report, and covers Gold, Silver, NASDAQ, and Crude Oil. The November edition of the MMA Cycles Plus monthly report will be coming out on Monday.
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING NOVEMBER 17, 2025
November 14, 2025
REVIEW Bitcoin and the broader crypto market are limping toward a painful weekly loss, fueled by investors’ retreat from riskier and more speculative trades. The largest cryptocurrency is now down about 7% for the week and trading more than 20% below its all-time high of above $126,000, touched on Oct....
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING NOVEMBER 10, 2025
November 7, 2025
NOTE: We are in the final stretch of completing the Forecast 2026 book, which is due at the printers at the end of November and to the typesetters by mid-November. Due to these deadlines, MMA Market Analyst Pouyan Zolfagharnia will be writing this week’s column. Ray will return next week,...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING NOVEMBER 3, 2025
October 31, 2025
NOTE: We are in the final stretch of completing the Forecast 2026 book, which is due at the end of November for the printers and by mid-November for the typesetters. Due to these deadlines, Gianni Di Poce and Pouyan Zolfagharnia will be writing three of the next four weekly columns....
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 27, 2025
October 24, 2025
REVIEW President Donald Trump announced he’s ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a television ad opposing U.S. tariffs that he said misstated the facts and was aimed at influencing U.S. court decisions. The post on Trump’s social media site came Thursday night after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 20, 2025
October 17, 2025
REVIEW The technical and fundamental picture remains strong for Silver, which could even record a new ATH at 53.06 +/- 5.27 within 3 months of the Saturn-Neptune conjunction on February 20, 2026, before a sharp sell-off. —Pouyan Zolfagharnia, “Silver Market in 2025,” The Forecast 2025 Book, written in November 2024,...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 13, 2025
October 10, 2025
REVIEW U.S. stocks tumbled Friday after President Trump posted on Truth Social that he may cancel a planned meeting with China’s president and is considering “a massive increase in tariffs” on Chinese products. The selloff was steep enough to wipe out weekly gains by the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 6, 2025
October 3, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW “Today is U.S. employment report Friday—except it is not, because of the impenetrable fog of the U.S. government shutdown. As low fear of unemployment is a crucial line of defense keeping the U.S. from recession, this is frustrating. Shutdowns usually redistribute economic activity between...
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