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Wall Street's finest minds have achieved something remarkable: perfect agreement. All 21 strategists surveyed by Bloomberg are calling for stocks to go up in 2026. Zero bears. None. The last pessimist apparently retired to go live in a cabin and yell at clouds and rewatch The Big Short.

The S&P 500 has already ripped 90% higher since late 2022, and now the consensus says we're getting another 9% next year. If they're right, that's four straight years of gains, the longest streak since before Lehman Brothers became a cautionary tale. Even JPMorgan, which spent early 2025 predicting a 12% crash before quietly deleting that take, is now targeting 7,500 on the index.

For retail investors, this kind of unanimous bullishness is both exciting and suspicious. When everyone's leaning in the same direction on the boat, maybe it’s time to grab a life jacket. But hey, betting against America has been a losing trade for three years straight, so who are we to judge?

Forget gold's boring, steady climb. Silver just doubled in a year, spiked to a record $82 an ounce, then dropped $12 overnight. The shiny metal that's been stuck between $15-$25 for a decade finally said "hold my beer" and made some…questionable moves, to say the least.

Here's the thing: this isn't just Reddit degenerates pumping $SLV (though they're definitely involved). Silver has legitimate industrial superpowers. It's the world's best electrical conductor, which means it's absolutely critical for solar panels, EVs, and the data centers running every AI model. Solar demand alone tripled its share of global silver consumption over the past decade. Even Elon Musk is sweating China's new export restrictions, posting that the policy changes are "not good" (Tesla needs the stuff).

Goldman Sachs warned silver could be volatile without gold's central bank support, and they weren't wrong about the wild swings. But that volatility cuts both ways. With industrial demand exploding, falling interest rates pushing investors toward hard assets, and supply potentially tightening, silver's got real tailwinds. ETFs like SLV or SIVR let you ride the wave without converting your basement into a vault. However, you don’t get the security of holding your silver bars in your hand as you go to sleep every night.

A lot can happen in a week!

Let’s take a quick look at who struck gold and who struck out since our last issue:

NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA): +2.13%
Meta Platforms, Inc. (META): +1.49%
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN): +1.20%

Tesla, Inc. (TSLA): -6.64%
Palantir (PLTR): -5.75%
Walmart Inc. (WMT): -0.34%

Analysis provided by ​altindex.com​.

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