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Today’s RIP: Metal is a shining star, Delta starts Q3 reports, and more. 📰
Kevin Travers
October 09, 2025 • Reading Time: 12 minutes
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CLOSING BELL
It Begins
The market fell on Thursday, and all eyes were on alternative “safe” assets and a fresh earnings season. Silver hit all-time highs above $51/oz. Silver shines as Gold, Oil, and Bitcoin fell, alongside falling equity prices. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit all-time highs for a moment today, but warnings of a dreaded AI bubble rang loudly this week.
“Is AI a bubble? Not yet, at least not to the extent that I think a ‘pop’ is imminent,” said Tom Essaye from The Sevens Report, told Bloomberg. “This isn’t a valuation bubble like we saw with Pets.com and others in the late 1990s. It’s a capital expenditure bubble.”
The government remains shut down, with Federal employee checks halted this week and two million more expected to go without pay next week if the shutdown continues.
In good world news, Israel and Hamas reached a cease-fire today in a chance to exchange prisoners and hostages, in a move proposed by the Trump administration. The end of the two-year war that devastated Gaza is almost in sight. 👀
Today’s RIP: Metal is a shining star, Delta said expensive seats are outselling, and more. 📰
1 of 11 sectors closed green, with staples $XLP ( ▼ 0.1% ) leading and industrials $XLI ( ▼ 0.25% ) lagging.
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Metal Is Glowing In Late Stage Bull Market 🪨
In this photo illustration, metal cubes representing rare earth elements stacked in a stepped formation in front of the national flag of China. (Photo illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)
Just because gold took a breather today, despite nearly breaking all time highs again, does not mean metal is on its way out. Silver, and any rare earth miner you can think of, were climbing Thursday.
iShares $SLV ( ▲ 2.57% ) Trust was the top trending ticker on Stocktwits this morning, a rare sight to see, as investors are looking for alternatives to the AI blob market.
It wasn’t just hopeful de-dollaring that pushed on metal buying: trade played a roll. China tightened restrictions on its metal exports, in yet more grappling toward an eventual meeting between President Xi and President Trump. The two have a lot to talk about, well, mostly TikTok and tariffs, the talk of the town this year.
Beijing put in a rule requiring foreigners to obtain a license to export rare earths. Critical metals $CRML ( ▲ 11.13% ) flew, Albermarle $ALB ( ▲ 0.09% ) a lithium battery maker, was the top climber on the S&P 500. $TMQ ( ▲ 0.84% ) kept climbing, a week after a small stake buy from Uncle Sam, and $MP ( ▲ 0.98% ) climbed after its July stake deal with the Dept. of Defense. The $REMX ( ▲ 3.05% ) VanEck Rare Earths ETF was up overall, after hitting an all-time high Wednesday.
China’s moves are to give it a good opening in a conversation chess game scheduled for later this month, to “help to ensure a strong position for Xi to sit down with Trump,” Evercore ISI analyst Neo Wang told CNBC in a note to clients.
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EARNINGS NEWS
Third Quarter Reports: It Begins ✈️
Delta Airlines $DAL ( ▼ 2.79% ) climbed, issuing forth a decree for all the land: consumers are still buying plane tickets. The largest airline in the U.S. said profit beat street estimates, and margins will look even better next year.
Chief Ed Bastian even said the airline’s premium seats may outsell economy tickets for two quarters next year. First class tickets brought in 9% more total revenue last year to $5.8B, compared to a 4% fall in normal tickets to $6B. Overall profit climbed 11% in the past three months, as cash sales climbed starting in July.
Despite the government shutdown sending air traffic control towers into disarray, Delta said it’s doing fine.
A Delta Airlines A321 airplane taxis at San Diego International Airport before departing on May 9, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
It wasn’t the only stock to report a good Q3, with Pepsi $PEP ( ▲ 0.95% ) shares up after, beating estimates for earnings and showing revenue climbed 1%. Pepsi improved its expectation of a 2025 earnings decline to just 0.5% a share.
Tilray $TLRY ( ▼ 5.15% ) jumped 30% after the weed seller swung to a profit of $1.5M, compared to losing $34 m a year ago.
Applied Digital $APLD ( ▼ 1.37% ) came in after the bell, shares climbing 12% after hours on a report of climbing revenue to $64M and a widening loss. Last year in the same quarter, the data center provider pulled in $35M.
Levis $LEVI ( ▼ 0.59% ) rounded out the reports with a falling stock despite a beat in revenue and earnings per share. It could be selling off due to a weak forward guidance of range that maxed out at $1.32, just a cent higher than the average street estimate.
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