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Two mornings. That's the whole week. Monday is quiet: US bond markets are shut for Columbus Day and the calendar is empty. Then Wednesday and Thursday bring US CPI, PPI, retail sales, jobless claims and the Fed Chair, all inside 48 hours. The detail most people will miss: headline inflation is expected to speed up while core slows. If that happens, Thursday's retail sales could matter more to the Fed than Wednesday's CPI. Today's Inside the Markets breaks the week down day by day, with what each release moves across FX, gold, oil and indices. Which release are you watching most closely? 👇 Open an account: skyriss.com/get-started #Markets #CPI #Forex #Gold #Trading

When a war breaks out, you buy gold. That's the playbook. It is not working this year. Seven months into the Iran conflict, with Brent around $100 and tankers still being hit in Hormuz, gold closed at $4,307 on Monday. That is down 7.4% in a month and roughly $1,000 below its high. The war didn't end. Gold's competition got stronger. The Fed hiked for the first time since 2023, and the 10-year yield touched 5%, its highest since 2007. Today's edition of Inside the Markets looks at why gold loses under both outcomes, peace and war, and at the one scenario where it wins. Read it below, then tell us: what does gold need to break higher?

You don't have to trade gold to be affected by what gold just did. Last week the Fed raised rates for the first time in three years and promised more. That is the one thing that is supposed to reliably push gold down; a stronger dollar, better returns on cash, less reason to hold an asset that pays nothing. Gold closed the week higher instead. Its first weekly gain in four. When an asset climbs while every mechanical reason says it should fall, the buyer isn't chasing a return. They're paying for safety. Which means gold may have quietly stopped trading as a bet on rates and started trading as a bet on the system. New edition of Inside the Markets breaks down the three explanations for the move and what this week's data does to each one. If a rate hike can't drop gold, what will? Full read below. Majors, metals and indices in one account: skyriss.com/get-started

The Fed hiked. The Bank of England held. Two different decisions, same week. And if you only read the headline number on either one, you missed the actual trade. Here's what most people skip: markets don't price what already happened. A hike that was 90% expected is in the chart before the announcement even lands. What actually moves currencies is the gap between what was expected and what gets signalled next: the dot plot, the tone, the vote split. A "boring" hold isn't boring. It's a decision with a signal buried inside it, waiting for the traders who bother to look. The full breakdown is in this week's Inside the Markets. Link in the comments. What did you watch more closely this week, the number or the tone?

Everyone is watching Wednesday. Most are watching the wrong part of it. A 25 basis point hike is roughly 86% priced. That part is settled. The live question is why the Fed is hiking at all, when core inflation just printed its lowest reading since March 2021 and the thing holding the headline up is a gasoline price being set in the Strait of Hormuz. No rate decision adds a barrel to the market. This week's Inside the Markets covers what Wednesday is actually a decision about, where the real information sits in the announcement, and the one signal already on the chart that most traders have not clocked. Trading CFDs carries risk of loss. Market commentary, not advice.

Solar is using 19% less silver. The shortage got bigger. Everyone quotes the sixth straight deficit. Almost nobody asks who is holding it open now that industry is quietly designing silver out of solar panels, jewellery and silverware. The answer changes what silver actually is. It used to be a rates trade with an industrial floor underneath it. It is now a rates trade with retail flows underneath it, one day before payrolls and two weeks before the Fed. Down 15% this year. Up 60% over twelve months. Both true. Neither one is an argument. Today's Inside the Markets breaks down where the deficit moved, why silver fell twice as hard as gold, and the one number in the bull case that still holds. Read it below. Then tell me which side you are on. Is silver still an industrial metal that investors buy, or an investment metal that industry happens to use? Trade Silver Here: https://lnkd.in/e_Rx6sBD Not investment advice. CFDs carry a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage.