Combined market cap falls 2% year over year, with 16 of the largest public companies losing value and just 5 outperforming the S&P 500. The post...
Burberry Crashes Most Since 2012 As Luxury Downturn Accelerates Shares in Burberry Group Plc crashed as much as 15% in UK trading, hitting...
According to Reuters, Chinese policymakers are relieved about the uptick in global trade as it could signal lower borrowing costs. Others, however, are...
Chinese Scientists Reveal Experiments With Virus 100% Fatal To Mice Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Scientists...
China Says It Cracked Apple's AirDrop Encryption To Track Senders Authored by Dorothy Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Chinese authorities...
Premature Extrapolation: Inflation Bears Are Popping The Champagne Too Soon Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Confidence...
Kim Jong-un is continuing to release statements about a possible military conflict with South Korea.
Germany's 'Krisenmodus' Has No End In Sight Authored by Conor Gallagher via NakedCapitalism.com, The Association for the German Language chose the...
China’s credit impulse has remained on a slow upward trajectory since July 2023. Key China’s central bank (PBoC) official has signalled a further accommodating...
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for this year: Ten Economic Questions for 2024. Some of those questions concerned real estate (inventory, house prices,...
"I Don't Recall": Forgetful Fauci's Memory Fails Over 100 Times During Congressional Grilling Anthony Fauci, the longtime head of the US National...
Three aerospace investments to avoid after Boeing 737 MAX 9 malfunction face open-ended risk from a fuselage door plug blowing out of the aircraft at 16,000...
Trump Allies Demand Accountability From Fauci, Not The Former President Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClear Wire, House Republicans...
What's The Source Of The Astounding 50% Boost In Corporate Profits? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, No wonder Corporate...
Emerging markets (EMs) have regained their footing in 2023, but the recovery from October 2022 lows has been anything but uniform across individual markets....
Xi’s New Year address wasn’t about threatening Taiwan – there’s more going on than we think.
The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported: The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods...
Buckle Up For A Bumpy 2024, Economists Warn Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. economy embarked on a rollercoaster...
A candidate from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party looks set to win the presidency despite Beijing’s pressure and rhetoric.
An unexpected case of rabies found in an animal can raise concerns for a potential outbreak. Proactive vaccination of both wildlife and people can help...
Overview: The dollar continues to consolidate broadly after the dramatic price swings at the end of last week. For the most part, the greenback remains...
Fauci Sits For Testimony On Mask Mandates And Covid Origin; Here's What Congress Should Ask Anthony Fauci is sitting for testimony in front...
Last week’s broad-based US dollar strength has dissipated ex-post US non-farm payroll data with the continuation of its underperformance against the...
The Diabolical Dozen: The Twelve "Most-Significant COVID Events" Authored by Bill Rice via The Brownstone Institute, When a new ‘medical’...
The Perfidious Unreality Of The "New Normal" Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, So, what’s with all the fake crying? Rachel...
China has a lot of vacant retail space, including many underused shopping malls. An urban policy scholar describes how the Chinese are rethinking what...
In 2023, the global economy defied widespread expectations of a recession and falling interest rates. Instead, the United States, Japan, and, to a lesser...
In this edition of Sanctions Watch, covering December 2023: ICRC identifies sanctions as key factor behind suffering in Afghanistan; New congressional...
Here Are All Global Shipping's Chokepoints With more and more shipping companies extending full or partial closures of Red Sea shipping routes...
After kicking off 2023 with a potential megablockbuster in Eisai and Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, in totality the FDA signed off on 10 more...