Author: Money Mechanics

(BOE Report) – Saudi Aramco is set to sign two U.S. liquefied natural gas supply deals with Woodside Energy and Commonwealth LNG when Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits Washington next week, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The world’s largest oil exporter, Saudi Aramco, wants to become a major liquefied natural gas player, especially in the United States, where LNG capacity is set to almost double over the next four years. It has already signed deals with other U.S. players, including NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG. The firm targets 20 million tons per annum (mtpa) of LNG capacity,…

It’s been more than two years since Apple became the first company in Wall Street history to reach a market cap of $3 trillion, and the iPhone maker has since grown its valuation by a trillion more. Check Out: How To Start Investing With Less Than $1,000 Learn Next: 9 Low-Effort Ways To Make Passive Income (You Can Start This Week) The difference now is that Apple is not alone in the $4 trillion club — and no longer even ranks at the top. That title belongs to Nvidia, which last year passed Apple as the world’s most valuable company,…

futures entered a textbook mean-reversion phase today, declining into the $50.77–$51.14 zone after reaching a hyperbolic peak at $54.415 just two sessions earlier. This peak aligned almost precisely with the Daily Sell 1 level at $54.40 and approached the higher-probability exhaustion band at Daily Sell 2 ($55.63). Such reversals at Sell 1/Sell 2 zones are not bearish events—they are structural rotations within a mathematically defined trend governed by the VC PMI probability model. The market did exactly what a hyperbolic advance is supposed to do: hit an exhaustion zone, trigger profit-taking, and pull back to equilibrium. The 30-day cycle, which…

Job seekers attend the Mega JobNewsUSA South Florida Job Fair held in the Amerant Bank Arena on September 25, 2025 in Sunrise, Florida.Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesJudging by current data, you’d think there’s literally a job out there for anyone who wants one. Looking deeper under the hood, though, tells a different story.The level of job openings as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for years has shown there are at least as many available positions as there are unemployed workers.But comparing the openings with actual hirings shows that not all those jobs are being filled.Not even close, in…

What date does Walmart’s Black Friday 2025 sale start?Walmart’s first Black Friday sale event runs Friday, Nov. 14 – Sunday, Nov. 16. Walmart+ members got early access to the sale on Nov. 13. The main Walmart Black Friday sale starts online only the week of Thanksgiving, Nov. 25-27, and then online and in stores Nov. 28-30. Again, Walmart+ members will get early access to the Black Friday sale.How do I become a Walmart+ member?Right now you can sign up for an annual Walmart+ membership online for 50% off, costing you $49 for the year. This is actually a great deal…

Andy Gullahorn, a gifted singer-songwriter, recently delivered a gift of his own with an unlikely wrapper. Using a provocative metaphor, he asks: “Does it really count as ‘Yes’ without a chance of ‘No’?” His point is philosophical, not salacious—real desire requires the possibility of rejection; satisfaction requires risk.He concludes, ‘We think we know what we really want, but what we really want lies underneath,’ and that is precisely the topic on my mind: How do we know what we really want?What do you really want?gettyAnd I believe this question, while rarely asked within the financial planning domain, is actually one…

On the outskirts of Edmonton, the Enbridge oil terminal is a maze of pipes and tanks that embodies Canada’s fraught oil ambitions.“These are gorgeous pipes,” said Norman Omoth, Enbridge’s terminal co-ordinator, gesturing towards North America’s largest crude pipeline system that has sent rivers of Canadian oil to the US since 1950.But the politics of what moves through those pipes is as tangled as the network itself.Canada now supplies about 60 per cent of US oil imports, or about 4mn barrels a day. Most of it comes from the giant bitumen-rich oil sands of northern Alberta, home to the world’s third-largest…

AI image for “investor facing inflation uncertainty.” Perchance.org. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The U.S. Treasury on Thursday will auction $19 billion in a reopened 10-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security, CUSIP 91282CNS6, creating a 9-year, 8-month TIPS. This will be especially interesting because it will be the first-ever TIPS auction with an initial month of inflation accruals based on uncertain statistics. The uncertainty is the direct result of the 43-day U.S. government shutdown, which furloughed all but one employee of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. No inflation data were collected in October, and at this point no inflation index has been set…

The homes that do sell are taking a long time to find buyers, who are wary of high housing costs and economic instability.  U.S. pending home sales fell 0.3% from a year earlier during the four weeks ending November 9, a tiny decline but the first in four months. The homes that are selling are staying on the market longer: Homes are taking a median of 49 days to go under contract, the longest span for this time of year since 2019.  House hunters are hesitant because costs are high and the economy is uncertain: The weekly average mortgage rate…

JPMorgan Chase says it’s been billed a total of $142 million in legal fees for the defense of Charlie Javice and Olivier Amar, respectively the founder and chief marketing officer at financial aid startup Frank. JPMorgan acquired Frank for $175 million in 2021, but earlier thai year, Javice and Amar were found guilty earlier of defrauding the bank by inflating Frank’s customer count, with Javice sentenced to seven years in prison. JPMorgan is now seeking to overturn a judge’s order requiring the bank to pay the pair’s legal fees, as reported in The Wall Street Journal. Michael Pittinger, a lawyer…