The August US consumer price index arrives on Friday, 11 September, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics release calendar. Five days later, the Federal Reserve announces its September interest-rate decision. Governor Christopher Waller has explained how the inflation evidence could influence his vote: continued improvement favours holding, but renewed
The British pound-Australian dollar (GBPAUD) pair has come under pressure as markets increasingly expect the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to raise interest rates again. While both the RBA and Bank of England (BoE) remain concerned about inflation, stronger Australian economic data and persistent price pressures have made the case for further tightening in Australia
Zcash cryptocurrency can be expected to fall further to the next support level 750.00 (low of the previous correction iv). Zcash reversed from key resistance level 883.00 Likely to fall to support level 750.00 Zcash cryptocurrency today reversed down from the resistance zone between the key resistance level 883.00 (which stopped the previous sharp upward
The $16.68 billion child-safety settlement that dominated Meta Platforms headlines in late August is the cheapest number on the company’s page, and the market spent the month re-pricing the wrong liability. Reuters reported on 26 August 2026 that Meta will pay up to $18bn over the next decade — maximum payments of about $16.7bn to
The consensus story about Samsung Electronics is that you buy it for the memory supercycle. That story is incomplete, and the part everyone is missing is not in the earnings headline — it is in the cash-flow appendix. Samsung’s FY2024–2026 shareholder return policy commits the company to returning 50% of free cash flow, and that
The Cboe Volatility Index stood at 14.92 at the 31 August 2026 close. That is a low-volatility reading: it sits near the bottom of Cboe’s 52-week range of 13.38 to 35.30 and below the index’s long-run norms. For an FX or metals trader, that number is useful but narrow. The VIX measures the price of
Microsoft is not an expensive stock that got more expensive. Over the past 52 weeks MSFT has returned 1.34% while fiscal 2026 revenue grew 17.7% and diluted EPS grew roughly 25% — the multiple did the falling, not the business. That is the first thing to understand about any Microsoft MSFT stock prediction made at
Palantir is not an AI infrastructure company, and almost every valuation argument made about it — bullish and bearish — quietly assumes it is. Here is the number that settles it: in the June 2026 quarter Palantir spent $14.55m on capital expenditure. Microsoft spent $35.80bn in the same three months. That is 2,461 times more
The most common mistake in a Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) price target right now is treating the Claudeforce announcement as an upgrade to the existing model. It is not. It is a change to the billing unit, and a business whose revenue is metered on API consumption cannot be valued off the same seat-growth assumptions as
Most silver price targets are guesses dressed as models. Ours are not, and the reason is one dataset: over the last twelve months the gold/silver ratio has traded from 44.1 to 89.1. That is not a forecast range — it is the range the market actually printed, twice over, inside a single year. Multiply those