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As US Debt Reaches $31.3 Trillion, Global Investors Hedge with Gold and Dollar Alternatives

The ratio of U.S. government debt to GDP has reached 100%, a milestone not seen since World War II. According…

3 months ago

Why OCBC Cut Its Gold Price Outlook by 15% While Other Banks Stay Bullish

On the last day of June, gold traded at $4,023 per ounce. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), a major Southeast Asian…

3 months ago

The Effective Tax Rate (ETR) anomaly at Nike

The quantitative analysis reveals that Nike's Effective Tax Rate (ETR) dropped from 33.6% in Q4 FY2025 to 19.6% in Q4…

3 months ago

Nike’s Q4 Profit Surge Is an Illusion

On June 30, 2026, @Nike (NKE) reported Q4 FY2026 results that appeared to show a spectacular rebound: Net Income of…

3 months ago

Intangible Asset Shifting (IAS) Module

The Real Asset Shifting (RAS) module (www.steelldy-indices.com) focuses on tangible assets, notably cross-border real estate. However, intangible assets (patents, trademarks,…

3 months ago

How High-Value Properties Slash Pillar Two Top-Up Tax Under SBIE Rules

The Substance-based Income Exclusion (SBIE) is a carve-out mechanism under Pillar Two (GloBE) that excludes part of a jurisdiction's GloBE…

3 months ago

Gold Demand from Central Banks Could Double in Late 2025, But Hurdles Remain, Says SocGen

Société Générale projects a more moderate pace of gold purchases by central banks in the future. While central bank demand…

3 months ago

Gold Vulnerable to Further Declines Amid Rising Oil Prices and Hawkish Fed, Analyst Warns

Gold prices are expected to fall below $3,900 per ounce this year before bottoming out, with a subsequent rally to…

3 months ago

Gold Dips Below $4,000 on Fed Hawkishness, but Heraeus Sees Support from Easing Inflation Expectation

According to precious metals market analysts at Heraeus, gold and silver prices are expected to rise soon due to declining…

3 months ago

Continued rate hikes. ECB towards 3.75%. Fed towards 5.75% by end of 2026

These projections come from a complete hybrid Monte Carlo simulation (incorporating coupled stochastic processes, embedded HMM regime-switching, an affine term…

3 months ago