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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bull_dozer who wrote (214074)	5/1/2025 2:49:25 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218039

*>> THE FCKING FCKS* I believe Team China is taking the opportunity tee-ed up by Team Trump to at least exercise to recalibrate the course for the coming 45+ months, to restructure the global this and reform the planetary that, just as Team Russia doing same w/r to security architecture Either exercise or rehearse, or the actual performance As we are already close to 2026 and closing in on 2032, harder to tell exercise (ala SARS) from rehearsal (ala COVID) and the actual performance. Where we are along the trajectory marked by waypoints surely matters to gold action. Hard to tell. Stay alert.

To: bull_dozer who wrote (214074)	5/1/2025 9:31:45 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218039

Just-saying and ‘nuff-said

To: bull_dozer who wrote (214074)	5/1/2025 9:38:24 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218039

*>> THE FCKING FCKS* … now, per below, we know ‘they’ are sooooo lying, for we were told by DeepSeek that June rate might be in range of 0.75% bloomberg.com Gold Heads for Weekly Loss as Traders Pare Back US Rate Cut Bets By Sybilla Gross 2 May 2025 at 08:25 GMT+8 Gold is set for its first back-to-back weekly loss this year, with losses this week at more than 2%. Summary by Bloomberg AI The precious metal's haven appeal faded as earnings drove optimism in markets alongside potential trade-talk progress between the US and other nations. Summary by Bloomberg AI Despite this week's sharp selloff, gold is up about a quarter this year and hit a record above $3,500 last week. Summary by Bloomberg AI Gold was set for its first back-to-back weekly loss this year, as risk appetite returned to Wall Street on strong tech earnings and traders curbed their bets on US interest-rate cuts this year after factory activity data. Bullion traded little changed near $3,240 an ounce — putting losses this week at more than 2% — after a report showed manufacturing activity shrank in April at a pace that slightly surprised to the upside. Markets pared wagerson the size of the Federal Reserve’s easing trajectory this year, with the first quarter-point rate reduction fully priced in for July. Both higher rates and yields tend to weigh on non-interest bearing gold. Elsewhere, the precious metal’s haven appeal faded as earnings largely drove optimism in markets alongside potential trade-talk progress between the US and other nations. Still, Thursday’s financial results from tech behemoths Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. underscored worries about the outlook, with both companies expecting a tougher business climate in coming months amid escalating tariff costs. Investors continue to weigh the impacts of US President Donald Trump’s fast-evolving tariff agenda, which has roiled global markets. Vice President JD Vance said a trade deal with India will be “among” the first agreements, and added that negotiations were also underway with Japan, South Korea and “folks in Europe.” Despite this week’s sharp selloff, gold is up about than a quarter this year and hit a record above $3,500 last week before losing some ground amid signs the rally was overheated. The ascent has been driven by investors taking refuge in the haven asset on mounting fears that unconventional policies from the White House could stoke a global slowdown. Read More: Gold-Backed ETFs Stage a Comeback in 2025 on Trade War Fears Speculative demand in China and central-bank buying has also supported gains. Traders will on Friday also weigh a US jobs report, the last piece of significant data this week. Spot gold was little changed at $3,242.97 an ounce as of 8:23 a.m. in Singapore, and is down 2.3% this week. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index was flat, after a 0.5% gain in the previous session. Platinum was little changed while silver and palladium edged higher.