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World’s Largest Shipping Company Collapses As Trade War Reality Strikes
World’s Largest Shipping Company Collapses As Trade War Reality Strikes While US equity markets (well a few mega-cap tech stocks anyway) have remained resilient in the context of rising protectionist fears, theworld’s largest shipping company is seeing its stock eviscerated as investor anxiety over trade wars finds an outlet that makes rational sense. A.P. Moeller-Maersk […]
US “Asleep At The Wheel” – As Nuclear Industry Faces Collapse
US “Asleep At The Wheel” – As Nuclear Industry Faces Collapse A new, shocking report by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP), Harvard University, and the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy discovered that the US nuclear power industry could be on the verge of a […]
Another Billionaire Warns “We’re Running Out Of Gold”
Another Billionaire Warns “We’re Running Out Of Gold” A few months ago SovereignMan.com’s Simon Black published a note explaining that major gold discoveries are shrinking. Simply put, mining companies are no longer finding vast, new deposits of gold to replace their aging mines. I quoted Pierre Lassonde, the billionaire founder of gold royalty giant Franco-Nevada […]
“There Is No End In Sight” Army Major Warns Of “Perpetual War” On Terror
“There Is No End In Sight” Army Major Warns Of “Perpetual War” On Terror Cutting through the haze of humanitarian bullshit and liberation, West Point graduate and author Major Danny Sjursen told ‘Watching The Hawks’ that the War on Terror is a “battle for basic hegemony in the Middle East”, warning that it may go […]
Bank of Canada Hikes Rates By 25bps, Loonie Rises On Hawkish Take
Bank of Canada Hikes Rates By 25bps, Loonie Rises On Hawkish Take The Bank of Canada raised the overnight rate by 25bps to 1.5%, in line with consensus estimates. In justifying the move, the Bank said it expects the global economy to grow by about 3.75% in 2018 and 3.5% in 2019, adding that the […]
Goldman: US-China Trade War Set To Worsen
Goldman: US-China Trade War Set To Worsen Echoing the comments laid out last night by Standard Chartered’s Steven Englander, this morning Goldman Sachs doubled down on how the US-China trade war will progress in the near-future, warning that it expects the tensions to get worse, at least initially. Speaking to Bloomberg TV, Goldman’s co-head of […]
“Past Point Of No Return”: World Markets Tumble Amid Global Trade War Shockwaves
“Past Point Of No Return”: World Markets Tumble Amid Global Trade War Shockwaves In almost every way, the overnight trading action has been a mirror image of the ramp observed on Monday morning, when trade tensions – inexplicably, one trading day after trade war started – were said to have “gone away” leading to a […]
Turkish Lira Tumbles To Record Low As “Ticking Time Bomb” Looms In Banking System
Turkish Lira Tumbles To Record Low As “Ticking Time Bomb” Looms In Banking System Having exercised his newly-omnipotent capabilities to alter central bank decrees and appointing a puppet cabinet, Turkish President Erdogan is now urging the general public to borrow in the currency in which they are paid, but, as Bloomberg reports, that warning came […]
As Global Debt Hits A Record $247 Trillion, The IIF Issues A Warning
As Global Debt Hits A Record $247 Trillion, The IIF Issues A Warning Every quarter the Institute of International Finance publishes a new number of the total amount of global debt outstanding, and every quarter the result is the same: a new record high Today was no exception: according to the IIF’s latest Global Debt […]
Why Trade War Is Now Set To Get Much Worse
Why Trade War Is Now Set To Get Much Worse In a note written on Monday, ahead of today’s latest escalation by the US which unveiled a list of $200BN in incremental tariffs sending risks assets sharply lower and yet which was perfectly expected and previewed both here and elsewhere as it was part of […]
The Economic History Of The World In One Minute
The Economic History Of The World In One Minute “…and America’s pre-eminence is over” ✔ The economic history of the world in one minute 6:53 PM – Jul 7, 2018 As we noted previously, history did not end with the Cold War and, as Mark Twain put it, whilst history doesn’t repeat it often rhymes. As […]
Chinese Refiner Halts US Oil Purchases, May Use Iran Oil Instead
Chinese Refiner Halts US Oil Purchases, May Use Iran Oil Instead With the US and China contemplating their next moves in what is now officially a trade war, a parallel narrative is developing in the world of energy where Asian oil refiners are racing to secure crude supplies in anticipation of an escalating trade war […]
Harvard Professors Expose ‘The Real Problem With Stock Buybacks’
Harvard Professors Expose ‘The Real Problem With Stock Buybacks’ Many critics say buybacks crimp investment. But the real problem is that – unlike dividends – buybacks can be used to systematically transfer wealth from shareholders to executives.. There is a problem with share buybacks – but it isn’t the one many critics and legislators are […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Purges 18,000 Civil Servants With Decree
Turkey’s Erdogan Purges 18,000 Civil Servants With Decree It didn’t take long for Erdogan, who two weeks ago was re-elected as Turkish president with a majority of the vote and the critical extra benefit of undisputed executive powers, to flew his newly-found muscles, and on Sunday Turkey provided a glimpse of what to expect under […]
Large-Scale Riots Continue In France For 4th Night
Large-Scale Riots Continue In France For 4th Night Riots continue in France after a 22-year-old Aboubakar Fofana lost his life in police control on Tuesday. The Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (CRS) official responsible for the has been indicted but remains free under judicial supervision. This decision has rekindled tensions in Orvault, Rezé, and the neighborhoods of Nantes, Breil, and Bellevue. Ouest-France […]
