Best Investments During a Recession: Where to Put Your Money in a Downturn Last updated: 8 October 2026 · By Spencer Li, CFTe The best investments during a recession are defensive, cash-flow-stable assets that hold up when growth stalls: high-quality government bonds (like US Treasuries), defensive stocks (utilities, healthcare, consumer staples), gold, and well-timed real […]
Oil Products and Oil Prices: What Moves the Oil Market (and How to Trade It) Last updated: 29 August 2026 · By Spencer Li, CFTe Oil prices move because oil is priced by global supply and demand, and a short list of forces keeps shifting both sides of that balance: OPEC production decisions, geopolitical events, […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 26 October 2026 Supercore inflation is the price change of core services excluding housing, so it covers things like haircuts, medical care, insurance and restaurant meals, with food, energy, goods and rent all taken out. The US Federal Reserve watches it closely because the biggest cost in these […]
What Is the CPI (Consumer Price Index), and How Do Traders Use It? Last updated: 8 October 2026 · By Spencer Li, CFTe The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a monthly measure of the average change in prices that consumers pay for a fixed basket of goods and services, and it is the number traders […]
NFP stands for Non-Farm Payroll. It is the monthly count of how many jobs the US economy added or lost, published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in a report called the Employment Situation. It counts almost every paid job in the country, government jobs included, and leaves out farm workers, the self-employed and people employed by private households.