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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Public.com presents The Rundown, your daily market update in under 10 minutes. My name is Zaid Admani, and today is Monday, February 2nd. In today's episode, we'll tell you what caused gold, silver, and Bitcoin to crash. We'll also break down earnings from Disney and who their next CEO might be. Then stick around to the end of the show to find out why it's the best time to buy a home in years.
We got a great show for you today. Let's go. January is in the books and it was a wild month to say the least, ending with a sell-off on Friday where the S&P 500 dropped 0.4% and the NASDAQ fell by 0.9%. Overall for the month though, stocks did finish in the green. The S&P 500 was up 1.4% in January while the NASDAQ gained nearly 1%.
The best performing index though was the small caps Russell 2000, which was up more than 5%. Now the big story this past month wasn't stocks, but instead metals like gold and silver.
Chapter 2: Why are gold, silver, and Bitcoin crashing?
And we had some pretty massive happen on Friday. After a big run-up to start the year, gold and silver got absolutely demolished on Friday. Gold dropped more than 10% and silver crashed over 30%, which was the worst single day drop since 1980. And I should mention Bitcoin as well. It also joined the sell-off over the weekend, dropping more than 10% and is now under $78,000.
Now this might seem unrelated, but the catalyst for the sell-off was President Trump's nomination of Kevin Warsh to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. See, Kevin Warsh is a former Fed governor and he has historically been hawkish, meaning he prefers interest rates to be higher in order to keep inflation in check.
And higher interest rates are bad for assets like gold, silver, and Bitcoin because they don't pay any interest. So investors would rather hold treasuries and earn a higher yield on their money. Now I do think this might've been an overreaction by the market because I doubt Kevin Walsh is going to come in and start hiking rates, but I guess we'll have to see.
I mean, the market seems to be freaked out about this, but there are other factors at play that led to the sell-off in gold and silver. Like there was too much leverage and speculation. actually posted a deep dive over the weekend about silver and why it saw a huge run up in prices over the last few months and why it crashed on Friday.
In that episode, we also broke down the bull and bear case for silver moving forward. So if you want to learn more, go check out that episode. We'll post a link to that episode in the description. Now, looking ahead, we have another jam-packed week coming up. We are getting earnings from Palantir, AMD, Google, Eli Lilly, Amazon, and more.
Now, on top of all those earnings, we're also getting the January jobs report, which is expected to drop on Friday morning, assuming the partial government shutdown ends by then. All signs point to it ending, but we'll have to see. So yeah, we have another big week ahead. So if you're new here, you've come at a great time.
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Let's run through some headlines.
starting with Disney. Disney reported earnings this morning and the numbers were solid, but the market reaction hasn't been so great. Let's start with the numbers first. Disney beat Wall Street expectations on both revenue and earnings, driven by the strength in their streaming business and theme parks.
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