Just as silver and gold reached record highs last week, volatility spiked after Kevin Warsh was announced as the nominee to become the next Federal Reserve chairman. Vijay Marolia, chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital, discusses what was behind the spike in volatility and why investors should ignore it, but he also looks at winners and losers among four Big Tech stocks that recently announced earnings and why he's looking past the quarterly numbers. Plus, Elon Musk is considering a deal that would merge his SpaceX with xAI, another of his companies, well before he was planning to launch SpaceX in a huge IPO. Marolia says the strange deal isn't so weird after all.

Vijay Marolia, chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital, enjoyed the "Game of Thrones" atmosphere he saw from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week, and says the lesson from the event was to keep watching geopolitics without over-reacting to them by overhauling your portfolio. Further, in "The Week That Is," he discusses how the market is reacting to feelings rather than fundamentals in the current earnings season, and how it's still not too late — even after silver's new highs last week — for investors to reconsider their commodities holdings and strategies, whether that means finally adding them to a portfolio or rebalancing stakes that have gone up.

Earnings season started last week with the financial-services companies reporting big numbers, overcoming interest-rate and other concerns along the way. Vijay Marolia, chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital, looks at that big start and talks about what's next, including the two companies that he thinks are must-watch news for week two of earnings releases. He also discusses what he's looking for in companies from all industries to make sure they are staying on top of opportunities in the business world.