With gold surging past $4,000 an ounce and tech stocks under pressure, copper's subdued tone is sending a message that Boston investors would do well to hear.
A fractured handover from Europe and Asia left the S&P 500 lower and the Nasdaq nursing sharp losses, even as defensive havens and old-economy industrials held the line.
A 4.60 per cent collapse in the Nasdaq is reshaping the terms on which companies can tap shareholders for fresh capital, and the consequences for ordinary investors are more immediate than they appear.
With gold surging to US$4,061 an ounce and the Nasdaq shedding 4.60 per cent, the dollar's shifting weight is working through everything from import prices to retirement accounts.
While the crowd chases Nasdaq mega-caps, today's brutal 4.60 per cent collapse and a surging gold price suggest the real trade is hiding in plain sight.
A fractured market session, with the Nasdaq shedding 4.60 per cent while the Dow edged higher, signals that investors are reading the labour market in fundamentally different ways ahead of the Federal Reserve's next move.
With the Nasdaq shedding 4.60 per cent and gold surging to US$4,058 an ounce, copper's quiet deterioration may be telling investors everything they need to know about where global growth is heading.
A brutal selloff in technology stocks dragged the Nasdaq Composite down sharply on Monday, rattling 401(k) balances and forcing investors to reckon with how concentrated Wall Street's bull run has become.
