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IT’S HAPPENING: APMEX Announces $10K Minimum On Retail Purchases Due to Historic Silver Volumes
The past two weeks have marked a historic moment in the precious metals market. Both gold and silver have reached record highs multiple times, driven by a convergence of global uncertainty, inflation concerns, and renewed interest in hard assets. With these price movements has come a surge in demand—one unlike anything we’ve seen in years— …
U.S. trucking freight volumes, a key signal for the goods economy, are down 17% YoY. Hiring has fallen to its lowest level since 2009, and layoffs have reached their highest point since 2020.
We’re about to enter the retail holiday season. Give it a few more weeks to see the real horror. Trucking freight volumes, a signal for the goods economy are a dumpster fire right now (-17% YoY) pic.twitter.com/4YPkLJtHdu — Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) October 27, 2025 Hiring is at its lowest since 2009. But we’re still …
S&P 500 keeps hitting highs, 0DTE volumes surpass 60% of total, but transports lag — real economy might be whispering a warning.
The S&P 500 keeps climbing to new highs while the transportation index, which tracks trucking, shipping, and freight companies, has started to stall out. That matters because transports are tied directly to the real economy, if goods aren’t moving, demand is slowing, and it usually shows up there first. In the past, these two have …
UPS dividend appears attractive but payout near 100 percent and plunging China volumes suggest a cut before stock becomes a bargain
United Parcel Service at $88–90 is often perceived as cheap because of the high dividend yield near 7.41 percent. At first glance the yield seems attractive, but the stock remains expensive because the dividend payout is nearly unsustainable. True value is likely to emerge only if dividends are reduced to a more sustainable level around …
US trucking volumes plunge 14% year over year, freight slowdown began with tariff turmoil in February
Supply chain jitters deepen with sustained trucking decline. US trucking volumes are down 14% YoY. The diversion in the direction freight market started in earnest around early February, around the start of some of the chaotic messaging around tariffs began. pic.twitter.com/FB8PDZCLhx — Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) July 21, 2025 Here you go… pic.twitter.com/KBrTFHqyn6 — Craig …
China-US container traffic collapses ships drop to lowest in over a year, tariff truce fails, shipping volumes plunge 50% since mid-April
Container shipping traffic from China to the US is plummeting: The number of ships departing from China to the US over the last 15 days has dropped to its lowest since February. Excluding the Chinese New Year-related decline in February, this is the lowest level in over a year.… pic.twitter.com/AYuPPJRXwS — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) …
Trucking volumes out of Los Angeles are equivalent to Thanksgiving and close to Christmas.
Trucking volumes out of Los Angeles are equivalent to Thanksgiving and close to Christmas. Thanksgiving and Christmas are typically the lowest volume days of the year. Truckers should avoid taking freight to Southern Cal, else risk having to deadhead back to Dallas to get… pic.twitter.com/fdF0JCozWO — Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) April 24, 2025
Credit card delinquencies highest since 2011. 275,000 jobs cut in March as layoffs surge. Trucking volumes have collapsed to near pre-COVID levels.
The pressure is not just building. It is bursting through the seams. More than 5,300,000 student borrowers are now in default. Another 4,000,000 are about to be hunted down when federal collections resume on May 5. These are not small figures. They represent lives unraveling under debt that was never meant to be repaid in …
Long-term Bitcoin holders sold; highest supply volumes since 2018 bottom. Over $1.1 billion liquidated from cryptocurrency market in 24 hours.
Remember when all those folks told you the Long-Term Holders never sell their $BTC? Yeh, they lied to you. Largest revived supply volumes since the 2018 bottom, and the BCH hard-fork (aka the biggest volume of old coins taking profit in a bull market ever). pic.twitter.com/1kwXbOkaI0 — _Checkmate 🟠🔑⚡☢️🛢️ (@_Checkmatey_) December 19, 2024 This is …
This earnings period is the lowest liquidity period of the year due to summer volumes and stock buyback blackouts.
Tech earnings are bracketed by Netflix this Thursday and Apple two weeks later with most of the other mega caps in between, except Nvidia which is off cycle. This earnings period is the lowest liquidity period of the year due to summer volumes and stock buyback blackouts. Here… pic.twitter.com/AfMizxDkxt — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) July 15, 2024 …
Global shift away from US dollar for reserves, trade; higher prices, lower trade volumes.
“Since Q1 ’22, rest of the world has had change of attitude toward the US dollar and fewer people are willing to hold it for reserves and trade; it’s not a flood yet but bad enough to show up in macro-level data; also seeing higher prices hide lower international trade volumes:” Since Q1 '22, rest …
Salesforce insiders sold shares worth $472 mln in December and January. Both months had record sales volumes.
Historically Salesforce Insiders had good timing with selling stocks according to this chart. h/t ChampionshipUsed9855
The UAW strike is having a massive impact on trucking volumes….
This one is going to hurt. The UAW strike is having a massive impact on trucking volumes. I haven't seen this big of a drop in trucking contract volumes outside of a holiday since the start of COVID. Contracted load volumes are down over 12%. https://t.co/7Kd2M98QnO pic.twitter.com/1aD3gwJ9Qt — Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) October 4, 2023
0DTE volumes hit new all time high at 49% of all options. Quad witching and options expirations today with $3.9t of options set to expire.
Everyone is gambling on 0dts and nobody is hiding it anymore LOL We may have created a monster. 🚨 Quad witching and options expirations today with $3.9t of options set to expire. Another volatile day in the cards! $SPX $QQQ pic.twitter.com/DGJuHnYfUX — Rahul (@rhemrajani9) September 15, 2023 h/t Gewoongary
Lowriding! US Personal Savings Lower Than Pre-Covid As Core Inflation Still Hurts At 4.70% YoY (Large Bank Loan Volumes Shrank Last Week As Deposit Outflows Re-Accelerated)
by confoundedinterest17 US personal savings are being exhausted as The Fed raises rates to fight inflation. I call this phenomenon “low riding” where consumers are being punished by The Federal Reserve and Biden Administration. Meanwhile, large bank loan volumes are shrinking. With money-market fund assets hitting new highs, and banks’ usage of The Fed’s emergency funds facility at …
The Biden regime & fake news media can lie all they want to about our mythical “economic recovery,” but freight volumes tell their own story
Current freight market explained in one graphic pic.twitter.com/iSLemeT2ud — Ben Tschirgi (@BenTschirgi) July 18, 2023 These are the REAL initial economic indicators of a recession/depression. Obviously started at least a year ago. h/t Simian_Stacker