First Maj is down 3 % pre mkt….I’d like to us a base ball bat on this short sellers…hopefully the mkt will.
Trump will have company
Julia Shapero
@JuliaShapero
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More than a dozen business & tech leaders are joining President Trump on his trip to China this week, per a WH official –

I think there’s a “Robot Gap”
The Humanoid Hub
@TheHumanoidHub
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Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing just unveiled a real-life mecha.
Marketed as the world’s first mass-produced manned robot, this machine can transform into a quadrupedal civilian vehicle. The unit weighs roughly 500 kg (1,100 lb), including the pilot.
More divvys
First Majestic Announces Q1 2026 Financial Results and Increased Quarterly Dividend Payment; Provides Management Updates
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/first-majestic-announces-q1-2026-110000834.html
So … I guess Iranian attacks on the UAE are not a surprise
UAE Secretly Carried Out Attacks On Iran, Making It An Active Combatant
All about the Crimex?
No follow through today. Dollar and rates moving up some and SM down some. Silver down a couple bucks and gold down $35.
Not sure why the big bump yesterday in silver, unless there’s something going on that is specific to Crimex, but I sorta doubt that.
So, we’re going to give some back today. Will be watching the shares to see how much.
I saw Bullionstar is selling silver eagles of random years for spot, never seen that before from any dealer.
They must be loaded up to the gills with them. Says to me that the general public dumped everything they had on the big rally of the last year. Doesn’t appear we’re going to get any help from them this time around.
My old dealer is paying well under spot for silver of all kinds as well.
The shortages must be purely industrial at this point.
End of the three day ceasefire.
I expected the PMs to go up today but then what. Metals no longer speculative but strategic and necessary but can still be short term volatile. This war is interrupting the natural flow of things and most annoying. Especially when you see it sell off over night when the market is closed.
Ballots out here
There are a unbelievable 61 candidates for Governor. The only few I see on TV are Democrats and talking to the illegals their voting base not the citizens. And their idea of schools.. scary.
Washington? Or Trump?
Sounds like yet another case of American negotiators working in good faith, thinking that they have authority for this or that, only to have the deal kiboshed when Trump decides he doesn’t like it. After all, Russia would be one place where it would be safe. If they had wanted to let Iran have fissile material, they could have done so at any time.
I dunno
US Accepted a Secret Plutonium Deal with Iran, Then Canceled It
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the United States, Israel, and Iran had agreed to transfer enriched nuclear material from Iran to Russia, but that the arrangement ultimately collapsed after Washington reversed its position and demanded the material be sent only to the United States.
US Accepted a Secret Plutonium Deal with Iran, Then Canceled It
Silver…
Is the energizer bunny !!!
Maddog – Jeff Gundlach “The Bond King”
PM’s, cash and hard assets are his play. His track record is good with regard to pm’s.
maddog, how would he know?
Must need another diversion! Donald ‘Joker’ Trump pretending he can’t lift a gold plated tungsten or uranium block (alternatively picking up a block in each hand) assuring everyone that the other 370,000 bars are all there too. Yuuuge!!!
Ipso, maddog
Ipso – so hard to believe anything said by either side. A week or a year sound like a good guess to me. I’m kind of looking for some leader from another country to step in and save the day, but we’ll see how it shakes out.
maddog – it would be really wise of Trump to do that, but I don’t know if they’ll let him. Don’t forget, there’s that rumor about a revaluation to $20K and gold backed bonds still hanging out there.
Trump still wants to crack open Fort Knox to personally confirm $700B gold cache has not been stolen
Kunstler … Leaves no question about where he stands
The Earth Moves Just a Bit
“Operation Epic Fury was the loud one. Operation Economic Fury is the quiet one. . . . While the carriers were on television, Treasury was doing the actual demolition.” —Jesús Enrique Rosas on X
Buygold @ 13:47
The war might end in a week or maybe a year. The world is in a precarious place, economically and militarily.
It looked like in the Iranian proposal they were willing to give up some of their enriched uranium … to someone else but not to us. I guess that’s progress.
Trump and the Mullahs both think they’re the one winning. It’s like in poker when two players each have really good hands they keep raising the stakes.
Convexity
Sounds reasonable. 😳
All that convexity seemed to show up between 8 – 9 am EST today. Not often do we see moves like that to the upside. I don’t know if a note from a bank came out and someone just went all-in at once or someone puked. Either way, let’s hope they keep it going!
Buygold
Silver rally is about Convexity…..me neither……though there maybe a silver AI link developing
https://www.zerohedge.com/the-market-ear/silver-leaving-even-sox-behind
Ipso/deer79
Ipso – I don’t know what he’ll say to Xi. He probably should ask him to pressure Iran to open the strait, because Xi needs that strait open too. I think his ego is too big to do that though. Trump needs an out IMHO. If he could have just waited a couple years while we got our own house in order, it would’ve been much better. What a mess.
deer79 – I hope my enthusiasm is warranted. I’m stunned by the move in silver. There has to be a reason behind it, or at least why shorts just threw in the towel seemingly all at once after sitting on us for 3 months.
Will they be able to handcuff gold today?
or is silver too strong for them to do it?
Gold shares still performing pretty well, so I’m kind of hoping for a bit of a gold rally before or into the close.
The YouTube silver commentators are going to be screaming tonight.
European 2 yr and 5yr notes up 2 to 2.5 % across the board……not looking good at all.
Note the Bull flag on this monthly chart…..if we break out rates are rising big time…..the very last thing Europe needs.
Martin Armstrong says gas in the US could hit $9 a gallon
Armstrong says this Iran war will last the rest of 2026, and gasoline prices in the US could hit $9 a gallon. Armstrong says, “We are at a point where governments collapse. . .. What we are facing is a sovereign debt crisis globally. International debt reached $353 trillion last month. It doesn’t stop. They don’t pay off debt. They just roll it over. This will come to a crisis because interest payments keep rising. Our interest expenditure exceeds military.”
The Cancer Industry’s Nightmare
lluminatibot
@iluminatibot
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Man cured his cancer with dewormer.
