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Volatile today, strategic tomorrow: Silver’s uneasy path through the energy transition Silver has long been overshadowed by gold, yet its price swings are often far more dramatic. Recent months...
Volatile today, strategic tomorrow: Silver’s uneasy path through the energy transition
There comes a moment in every entrepreneurial journey when one realizes that the carefully aligned assumptions of a business plan will not survive their first contact with human reality.For me, that...
Finance, Technology, and Culture: Chronicles of a WealthTech in the Making
The City enters bonus season with a familiar but increasingly structural divide: traders are powering ahead while dealmakers remain stuck in a low‑growth cycle. What once looked like a temporary...
A Divergence in the City: Why trading is pulling away from advisory
Speed intro:Managing money has become a daily challenge in a context of inflation, fluctuating interest rates, and constant financial innovations, such as cryptocurrencies.Should one prioritize the...
Savings, investment, and cryptocurrencies: How to build a smart financial strategy
Speed Intro: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a technology of the future. It is already present in our phones, companies, public administrations, and work routines. This rise brings a...
Artificial Intelligence, Employment, and the Digital Economy: Threat or Growth Engine?
Energy
Oil remains one of the world’s most strategic resources, serving as fuel, an industrial raw material, and a price benchmark for energy. Key benchmarks are: Brent Crude:...
Geopolitical Tensions Fuel Price Surge and Short-Term Opportunities for Energy Prices
[et_pb_section admin_label="section"] [et_pb_row admin_label="row"] [et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]Hydrocarbons, and in particular crude oil (Brent and WTI) and...
Oil Falters, Gas Ignites — How to Invest in a Tense Market
The global oil market remains highly sensitive to geopolitical and macroeconomic dynamics. Brent and WTI, the main benchmark indices, reflect both: global supply and demand, ...
Oil: a volatile market between hopes for peace and geopolitical tensions
The global oil market is currently experiencing a phase of falling prices, with Brent crude hitting its lowest level since late October, around USD 61 per barrel. This trend is primarily due to a...
Oil: Supply surplus pressures prices, but medium-term demand outlook remains strong
Oil remains the most closely watched strategic commodity worldwide , serving as fuel, industrial raw material, and an investment asset. The two main benchmarks are Brent...
Oil: Stable prices but persistent geopolitical threats
Precious Metals
The precious and base metals market plays a central role in the global economy and in investment portfolios. Precious metals, such as gold and silver, have historically been used as safe-haven assets...
Metals: Gold and Silver Surge, Copper Hits New Records
The precious and industrial metals market is currently experiencing exceptional dynamics: Silver has crossed the USD 60/oz mark, reaching USD 64.4/oz, with an increase of approximately...
Precious and Industrial Metals: Silver and Copper Boosted by Tight Supply and Global Demand
The strategic metals market is entering a strong expansion phase, driven by powerful structural forces: global electrification, energy transition, digitalization, and geopolitical tensions. Two...
Copper & Gold: Cornerstones of the Energy Transition and Financial Stability
Metals are essential commodities, used both in industry and as a safe-haven asset: Copper: a key industrial metal for construction, electronics, and the energy transition (batteries,...
Metals: Copper and Precious Metals boosted by U.S. Monetary Policy
Industrial and precious metals play a critical role in the global economy, both for industrial applications and for value preservation and portfolio diversification. This week: Copper:...
Investing in copper and gold: Drivers of growth and safe havens
TopDown-View
The global macroeconomic environment remains marked by high nervousness and elevated volatility across all asset classes. Key factors at play: Equity markets: after record highs at...
Macro Outlook: Volatility Returns Amid Mixed Corporate Results and Monetary Uncertainty
Macroeconomics analyzes the major economic balances at the level of a country or region: growth, inflation, employment, fiscal and monetary policy. In the current context, the U.S. macroeconomy plays...
U.S. macroeconomy: The strategy of controlled chaos supporting a robust growth cycle”
Bloomberg recently ran a headline that stopped many readers mid-scroll: “Iran Edges Closer to a Revolution That Would Reshape the World.” At first glance, it feels like journalistic...
Iran on the brink: Four futures that could reshape the world
AI in financial services: efficiency, resilience, and the real systemic questions A senior‑executive perspective on the opportunities and risks shaping the next decade of finance ...
AI: Driving Efficiency, Resilience, and Strategic Leadership for the Next Decade
At first glance, the development of humanoid robots and the depreciation of the U.S. dollar appear to belong to two distinct worlds. On one side, a fascinating technological narrative dominated by...
Humanoids, Automation and the Dollar: How Industrial sovereignty is reshaping monetary sovereignty
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