{"id":70431,"date":"2026-02-02T18:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=70431"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:46:37","slug":"russell-2000-rallies-gold-and-silver-extend-losses-whats-moving-markets-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=70431","title":{"rendered":"Russell 2000 Rallies, Gold And Silver Extend Losses: What&#8217;s Moving Markets Monday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Wall Street rebounded at the start of the new month after Friday&#8217;s broad sell-off, but pressure on precious metals intensified as investors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/economic-data\/26\/02\/50298850\/5-things-kevin-warsh-could-change-fed-market-implications\">reassessed the Fed outlook.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>        \u2022 Walt Disney stock is showing notable weakness. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/DIS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why are DIS shares down?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By midday trading in New York, the <strong>Russell 2000<\/strong> outperformed large-cap peers, rising 1.4% after losing 1.6% Friday. The <strong>Nasdaq 100<\/strong> jumped 1.1%, while the <strong>S&amp;P 500<\/strong> rose 0.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Markets digested the fallout from President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>&#8216;s nomination of <strong>Kevin Warsh <\/strong>as the next Federal Reserve chair, a move seen as signaling a more hawkish stance on the central bank\u2019s balance sheet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gold <\/strong>extended Friday&#8217;s rout, sliding more than 4% from Friday&#8217;s close to $4,670 per ounce. <strong>Silver<\/strong> plunged 8% to $77.88. On Friday, gold had dropped 9%, while silver collapsed 26%.<\/p>\n<p>Economic data added to the upbeat tone on the stock market. The<strong> ISM Manufacturing PMI <\/strong>unexpectedly surged to three-year highs, signaling renewed momentum in factory activity.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <strong>Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/strong> said &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/equities\/26\/02\/50310901\/stock-market-news-monday-february-2-gold-silver-selloff-warsh-russell-2000-rallies?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Russell\" rallies gold and silver extend losses: what moving markets monday>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street rebounded at the start of the new month after Friday&#8217;s broad sell-off, but pressure on precious metals intensified as investors reassessed the Fed outlook. \u2022 Walt Disney stock is showing notable weakness. Why are DIS shares down? By midday trading in New York, the Russell 2000 outperformed large-cap peers, rising 1.4% after losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-70431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}