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| By Jim Nelson |
The most remarkable thing happened this week.
It wasn’t the newly struck trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K.
It wasn’t that Mag 7 giant Alphabet (GOOGL) fell as much as 10% on news that Apple (AAPL) is considering replacing Google Search with AI in its browser.
And it wasn’t even that all your experts gathered for a mega event — the 2025 Weiss Investment Summit — to share how to profit in this market.
The truly wild thing that happened this week was that the Fed met, held rates exactly where they were and nobody cared.
Just a few days ago it seems, the market was in turmoil over the possibility of President Trump firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
Now, when Powell and company decided to hold rates flat and signaled that this year might only see two cuts total (or even fewer), no one stirred.
The stock market shrugged and continued its rapid post-Liberation-Day recovery.
In fact, the market has nearly come all the way back.
While no one can look at this chart and say it’s been fun, it does speak to how investors are still (somehow) optimistic.
No rate cut? No problem. Only one trade deal since Liberation Day? Great, better than nothing!
We’ll see if this sharp price recovery lasts through the rest of earnings season. Of course, your experts have their own ideas of how to find profits no matter what happens to the overall market.
Here’s what they are looking at …
A New Source to Scour Sentiment
One of the most powerful drivers of investment prices is sentiment. So, when Jurica Dujmovic discovered a new way to find out what big-time investors are thinking, we had to share it.
Get Ready for Price Spikes in Miners of These Industrial Metals
Gold isn’t the only metal your resource expert, Sean Brodrick, thinks is going to have a great year. Rare Earth metals are going to get squeezed, even if the U.S. and China start agreeing on things.
Fighting Fire with Fire in the Age of AI Hackers
A major theme this week when your experts gathered was AI. It’s clear that AI isn’t going anywhere. But not all of it will be used for good. Chris Graebe has a way to fight bad AI with good AI.
That’s it for this week. Have a great weekend!
Jim Nelson
Managing Editor, Weiss Ratings Daily
