This week’s tech rout did more than puncture one of the year’s hottest trades: it exposed the machinery of modern speculation — and how quickly it can work in reverse. A retail-fueled unwind in AI chip stocks reverberated through semiconductor shares across Asia and...

Iron ore headed for a seventh weekly loss — the worst run since 2022 — as demand weakened seasonally and mill margins narrowed. Futures for the steelmaking ingredient fell to $96.95 a ton in Singapore on Friday, the lowest intraday level since February. For the week,...

Gold fell below $4,000 an ounce for the first time since November, as a resurgent dollar and the prospect of higher interest rates bring bullion’s three-year bull market to a halt. Prices slipped as much as 3.7% to trade below $3,970 an ounce, retreating for a second...

Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin buying machine Strategy Inc. should stop purchasing the cryptocurrency if it wants to restore market confidence in its shares. That’s according to Julio Moreno, head of research at CryptoQuant, who argues Strategy’s priority should be to...

Copper and industrial metals largely held Tuesday’s slump as a stronger dollar and the Federal Reserve’s hawkish stance weighed on the demand outlook. Copper was slightly higher on the London Metal Exchange, after losing 2% on Tuesday as a bearish turn in equity...