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Pakistan Panic: 3rd Currency Devaluation In 2018 Sends Sovereign Risk Soaring Above Argentina, Ukraine
Pakistan Panic: 3rd Currency Devaluation In 2018 Sends Sovereign Risk Soaring Above Argentina, Ukraine While many of the world’s eyes are on the carnage in Argentina as EM collapses, Pakistan has quietly devalued the Rupee three times this year, amid tumbling reserves which has sparked enough investor anxiety to send CDS spiking. Pakistan is now […]
A Made In Canada Recession Story!
A Made In Canada Recession Story! The Canadian economy lost 7,500 jobs last month (May), and unemployment was still at 5.8%. This, despite analyst forecasts that the country would likely add roughly 22,000 jobs to the economy. Rewind to the previous monthly jobs report (April). Analysts had predicted that we would add approximately 20,000 jobs […]
White House Accuses China Of “Persistent Economic Espionage And Aggression”
White House Accuses China Of “Persistent Economic Espionage And Aggression” In what Bloomberg billed as the White House’s “latest salvo in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies”, the Trump administration released a 35-page report late last night fleshing out its national security concerns emanating from China’s theft of intellectual properties as well […]
Canada Becomes Second Country To Legalize Weed
Canada Becomes Second Country To Legalize Weed Canada is on track to become the first G-7 nation to legalize marijuana, and the second country in the world (after Uruguay), after its Senate approved legislation in a 52-29 vote, paving the way for recreational cannabis to be legally bought and sold within the next few months. […]
Emerging Market Contagion Goes Global As Fund Outflows Spike Most In Over 4 Years
Emerging Market Contagion Goes Global As Fund Outflows Spike Most In Over 4 Years Despite promises from various foreign officials that just a little more intervention and just a few more billion in bailouts from Lagarde will ‘fix’ the “short-term speculator-driven” crisis in Emerging Markets (even as Brazil admits failure), things are escalating way beyond […]
Here Are The Six Ways China Could Retaliate In Trade War With The U.S.
Here Are The Six Ways China Could Retaliate In Trade War With The U.S. It’s all about the trade war between the US and China this morning, and more specifically, how will Xi retaliate to Trump. For those who missed the overnight fireworks, late on Monday, President Trump asked the US Trade Representative to identify […]
Unprecedented Israeli Strikes Target Iraqi Shia Militias In Syria
Unprecedented Israeli Strikes Target Iraqi Shia Militias In Syria A day after a mysterious airstrike close to the Iraq-Syria border reportedly killed over 30 Syrian government soldiers and Iraqi paramilitary forces backed by Iran, a US official has told CNN the attack was carried out by Israel and not by the US coalition. Syrian state […]
“Can’t Work With That Woman Anymore”: Merkel Handed A Two-Week Ultimatum On Her “D-Day”
“Can’t Work With That Woman Anymore”: Merkel Handed A Two-Week Ultimatum On Her “D-Day” Adding insult to injury, one day after Germany’s historic loss to Mexico (which resulted in a man-made earthquake in USA’s southern neighbor), Europe’s most important country is facing the “Destiny Day” to a political crisis like no other in its recent […]
China Responds To US Sabre-Rattling With Anti-Aircraft “Drill” Over South China Sea
China Responds To US Sabre-Rattling With Anti-Aircraft “Drill” Over South China Sea The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has carried out an alarming anti-aircraft drill with missiles fired at dummy drones over the South China Sea to simulate an aerial attack, after Washington challenged Beijing by flying Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers near its highly disputed militarized […]
US To Double Number Of Marines In Norway To Counter Russia, Before Massive Military Exercise
US To Double Number Of Marines In Norway To Counter Russia, Before Massive Military Exercise The Norwegian government intends to add another 400 U.S. Marines to Norway before the most significant military exercise since the Cold War this fall, according to the country’s Ministry of Defense. Currently, about 330 Marines from the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines (1/6), an […]
“The Global Bond Curve Just Inverted”: Why JPM Thinks A Market Crash May Be Imminent
“The Global Bond Curve Just Inverted”: Why JPM Thinks A Market Crash May Be Imminent At the beginning of April, JPMorgan’s Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou pointed out something unexpected: in a time when everyone was stressing out over the upcoming inversion in the Treasury yield curve, the JPM analyst showed that the forward curve for the 1-month […]
‘DISEASE X’: New Strain Of Bird Flu Kills 40% Of Those Who Contract, 100s Dead In China
‘DISEASE X’: New Strain Of Bird Flu Kills 40% Of Those Who Contract, 100s Dead In China A “new” strain of deadly bird flu dubbed “Disease X” by the World Health Organization (WHO) has killed hundreds of people in China, and is just three mutations away from becoming transmissible between humans, according to experts. The strain, […]
China’s Surveillance State Is Using RFID Chips To Track Cars’ Movements
China’s Surveillance State Is Using RFID Chips To Track Cars’ Movements China, the world’s most populous country, continues to devise new methods of keeping tabs on its 1.4 billion citizens. And after the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week about a powerful new spy camera devised by a team of researchers at Duke University […]
Trump Slams OPEC Again, Demands Lower Prices: “Oil Prices Are Too High, OPEC Is At It Again”
Trump Slams OPEC Again, Demands Lower Prices: “Oil Prices Are Too High, OPEC Is At It Again” Nearly two months after Trump drew a line in the sand on oil prices, when on April 20 he lashed out at OPEC, tweeting that “Oil prices are artificially Very High! No good and will not be accepted!”which […]
Blain: Will The Fed Hike Unleash The “Swing” Moment When Suddenly Balance Is Lost?
Blain: Will The Fed Hike Unleash The “Swing” Moment When Suddenly Balance Is Lost? Fed, Stratospheric dangers, US corporate leverage and the greater competition to manage funds. “Of all extinct life-forms, dinosaurs are the most popular. Why that should be is not clear… ” All eyes on the Fed today. They will hike by 25bp […]
