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If you’re a member of Gen X, you might remember the one-two punch of outrage brought on when Steven Spielberg’s PG-rated “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “Gremlins” created a new PG-13 rating for those 12-year-olds who … couldn’t handle the terror of a creature that turned evil if it had a snack after midnight? Anyway, now Meta is bringing the same content moderation to Instagram, which will default to the Motion Picture Association rating for teen accounts. Of course, those wily teens will probably find a way around it as they always do, though Meta claims it has ways of detecting a user’s age.

US stocks spent most of Tuesday bouncing back from steep early losses before the S&P 500 careened back into the red late in the day after President Donald Trump posted that he was considering “terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution” for “purposefully not buying our Soybeans.” As the saying goes, you reap what you soy.

Tech was the worst-performing sector ETF, dragging down the Nasdaq 100. The Russell 2000 still managed to notch a new record close as small-caps climbed higher.

Rare earth stocks are having a blast at the moment. Small stocks in the critical and rare earth minerals sector — the latest flashpoint of US-China trade relations — have ripped, but the trade went into overdrive to start this week.

Remarkably, the rare earth trade didn’t seem to be losing any steam on Tuesday. 

With risk-off sentiment dominating the premarket session — the US and China having just rolled out their tit-for-tat port fees — the one winner from the trade tensions seems to still be the rare earth stocks. Indeed, other names in the industry were also trading higher yesterday, most notably United States Antimony Corp. (up 4.6%), Critical Materials (up 29%), and American Battery Technology Co. (up 23%).

One of the big themes this year has been “follow the feds” replacing “follow the Fed” as a financial market maxim, with novel economic policies out of Washington having massive ramifications for traders. The reality is, one of the biggest end consumers of these rare earths is the Pentagon and one of the biggest suppliers is China, a situation that was inevitably going to become untenable as the Pentagon ratchets up pressure on, well, China. If you’re an American company with skin in the game on rare earths, traders increasingly seem to think this is your moment. 

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Right now, it’s become more and more evident that among a certain group of highly online retail traders, gold and silver are the new meme stocks.

Momentum. Flows. Options activity. Intense retail enthusiasm. It’s all there. The new shiny toys for traders are the oldest, shiniest perceived stores of value.

The 14-day relative strength index, a technical gauge of the magnitude and persistence of price movements, is at its highest level since 2020 for the silver ETF. The gold ETF, meanwhile, has seen its 14-day RSI close above 70 (which indicates it’s in “overbought” territory) in all but one of the 30 trading days since the end of August. 

That’s far and away the highest share of time it’s spent in “overbought” territory over any 30-session stretch since this product was introduced in 2004.

Precious metals are normally what you turn to when the world is going to hell in a handbasket. And yet we’re seeing it bid up at the same time that the AI trade remains near all-time highs, zero-revenue nuclear energy company Oklo is ramping, and quantum computing stocks are also on fire. Once again, the nature of the assets that are seemingly going parabolic suggests that we’re in an intense bull market in anti-humanity.

If you’re shopping for a new car, buckle up for sticker shock, as the average price for a new vehicle averaged $50,080 in September. Before you rush to blame tariffs, a Cox Automotive analyst noted that while tariffs did contribute, the rise was driven more by a “healthy mix of EVs and higher-end vehicles.”

See the average price for GM, Ford, and Tesla vehicles.

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