Cash Strategist 11-12-2025

Trade trickling back to the U.S.

During even the slowest days in the markets, rumors can pop up out of nowhere to give traders fits and quickly send prices into a tizzy without any advance notice or warning. Rumors of demand, rumors of weather events, rumors of crop sizes, rumors of government policy changes, rumors of wars or fighting, the list goes on.

Sometimes these rumors are dispelled as just that, a rumor, in a matter of hours or days; other times, they linger in the background for days or weeks on end, eventually drifting into obscurity with nothing to either confirm or deny them.

While the world is undoubtedly more connected now than it was 50 or even...