Precious metals continued to dominate Wall Street headlines on Friday as silver surged through the $100-per-ounce threshold and traded around $101 per ounce by midday in New York, marking a staggering 230% gain over the past year.

Gold flirted with the equally eye-catching $5,000-per-ounce level, a price that stood nearly 80 percentage points lower just a year earlier.

The rally extended beyond gold and silver. Across the broader commodities complex, momentum remained strong.

Palladium jumped 6%, breaking above $2,000 per ounce for the first time since November 2022, while platinum surged 5% to fresh all-time highs above $2,700 per ounce. Copper climbed 3% to $6 per pound.

Energy prices…

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Threads momentum, robots mature, crypto consolidates

META (NASDAQ:META) jumped roughly 5% as management highlighted early progress monetizing Threads. The market reaction was less about near-term revenue and more about optionality. Threads is being positioned as another scalable ad surface layered onto Meta’s existing data and targeting engine. Importantly, this follows a familiar playbook: build engagement first, then monetize efficiently.

Elon Musk on Robots and the Long Game

(NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk reiterated that robotics remains a long-term strategic priority rather than an immediate revenue driver. The focus was on autonomy, learning systems, and real-world deployment, not…

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Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) spot exchange traded funds were approved with the promise of unlocking institutional capital and reshaping crypto market structure. Since launch, flows into and out of these products have become one of the most closely watched data points in digital asset markets. Yet price action has not always moved in lockstep with ETF demand, leaving traders divided over what these flows actually signal.

The divergence between Bitcoin ETF flows and spot price behavior is not noise. It reflects how institutions deploy capital, manage risk, and express conviction in an asset that still behaves very differently from traditional equities or bonds.

Understanding this dynamic matters…

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Silver crossed the psychological $100 per ounce Friday, driven by solar panel demand and a historic supply squeeze, while Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has crashed 30% from its $126,000 peak to $89,000.

The Numbers: Silver Added $2.83 Trillion

Silver closed October 31, 2025 at $48.68 per ounce. By Friday afternoon, it had crossed $100—a 104% surge in three months.

The total above-ground silver supply is estimated at approximately 56 billion ounces, including bullion, coins, jewelry, and industrial products. 

At October’s price, silver’s total market value stood at roughly $2.73 trillion. 

At today’s $99 price, that valuation has exploded to approximately $5.56 trillion—an increase of…

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Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) remains stuck around $90,000 level, despite global equity markets and commodities continuing their multi-month rally.

Historical Correlation Broken

The crypto market is exhibiting an extreme divergence from broader equities, most notably in Ethereum’s (CRYPTO: ETH) failure to track the Russell 2000 despite a long history of close correlation, prominent analyst Kevin noted.

Historically, the two have moved together roughly 90% of the time, particularly during risk-on environments.

A prolonged decoupling of this magnitude, especially while the Russell 2000 is in price discovery, has not been observed before.

The divergence suggests either a lagged response from crypto…

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