Silver slips below $80: when does panic become opportunity?

Silver’s vertical sprint to a record around $120 per ounce on January 29 has flipped into a punishing reversal. The prices crashed on Friday as leveraged bets unwind and the dollar snaps back. After some venues briefly printed intraday lows in the low-$90s on Friday, silver has since sliced through the closely watched $80 threshold. […]

Evening digest: Bitcoin slips towards $80K, Trump’s Fed pick upends markets, commodities crash

Markets are closing the day grappling with a sharp mix of policy, politics, and positioning risk. Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh for Fed chair is forcing investors to reassess the path for rates, liquidity, and asset prices. That shift is rippling across gold, crypto, and the dollar, while geopolitical tensions, from the Panama Canal […]

Noem touts TSA success after thousands with terror links barred from flights at major US airport

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on Saturday touted sweeping Transportation Security Administration (TSA) operations at Miami International Airport, saying the efforts have played a critical role in protecting U.S. transportation networks. Speaking at a news conference at the airport, Noem said TSA officers prevented more than 10,000 people with suspected ties to […]

Hundreds rally outside Iranian UN ambassador’s Fifth Avenue residence calling for regime change

Shouts of ‘Trump act now!’ filled the sunny Saturday afternoon on New York’s Fifth Avenue as hundreds of anti-Iranian regime protestors denounced the theocratic regime in Tehran and called for the U.S. to take action against Iran. ‘We want freedom for the Iranian people,’ said protester Sarah Shahi. ‘We want this theocracy that has been […]

IDF says Gaza strikes hit terrorists, weapons facilities after ceasefire breach; hospitals report 30 killed

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Saturday that strikes across Gaza were carried out in response to what it described as a ceasefire violation in which eight terrorists were identified exiting underground terror infrastructure in eastern Rafah. The IDF said it struck four commanders and additional terrorists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as […]

Hundreds of political prisoners in Venezuela could be released under new amnesty bill

Hundreds of political prisoners in Venezuela, including opposition leaders, journalists and human rights activists, could soon be freed under an amnesty bill that the country’s acting president announced on Friday.  The move represents the latest concession Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has made since the Jan. 3 capture of the country’s former leader Nicolás Maduro […]

US approves massive arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia for more than $15 billion amid Middle East tensions

The U.S. State Department late Friday announced it had approved two arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia worth $6.67 billion and $9 billion. The sales come as the Trump administration moves forward with its peacekeeping plan in Gaza and amid the threat of U.S. military strikes in Iran. Thirty Apache helicopters with rocket launchers […]