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New Study Finds 41% Increase In Cancer Risk From Roundup’s Glyphosate
New Study Finds 41% Increase In Cancer Risk From Roundup’s Glyphosate A comprehensive analysis of glyphosate – the most widely used weed-killing chemical in the world – reveals that those with the highest exposures to the popular herbicide have a 41% increased risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) cancer. The meta-analysis of six studies containing nearly 65,000 participants also looked […]
Get Ready To Pay More For Toilet Paper, Cat Litter And Garbage Bags
Get Ready To Pay More For Toilet Paper, Cat Litter And Garbage Bags After finding they could largely get away with raising prices last year, makers of household staples are planning another round of inflationary price hikes in order to offset higher commodity costs and boost profits, according to the Wall Street Journal. Unsurprisingly, the price […]
Russia Readies Own Web To Survive Global Internet Shutdown
Russia Readies Own Web To Survive Global Internet Shutdown Russian authorities and major telecom operators are preparing to disconnect the country from the world wide web as part of an exercise to prepare for future cyber attacks, Russian news agency RosBiznesKonsalting (RBK) reported last week. The purpose of the exercise is to develop a threat analysis and provide feedback to a proposed law […]
Why S&P Bulls Should Worry As The Baltic Dry Collapse Nears Worst On Record
Why S&P Bulls Should Worry As The Baltic Dry Collapse Nears Worst On Record As we noted recently, despite global stock markets soaring, global freight indices have been more-than-seasonally weak so far in 2019 with the Baltic Dry Index in particular crashing. The Baltic Dry Index represents the cost of renting an ocean-going container ship […]
Netanyanu Tweets Then Quickly Deletes He Is Seeking “War With Iran”
Netanyanu Tweets Then Quickly Deletes He Is Seeking “War With Iran” During the middle of the day Wednesday the official verified twitter account for the Prime Minister of Israel stated that PM Benjamin Netanyahu was in Warsaw attending the US-led Middle East summit with an aim to “advance the common interest of war with Iran.” It was tweeted in a thread focused […]
Salvini Calls For Elimination Of Italy’s Central Bank, “Prison Time For Fraudsters”
Salvini Calls For Elimination Of Italy’s Central Bank, “Prison Time For Fraudsters” On Friday, in a moment of predictive insight, Bank of America correctly warned that the greatest threat to EPS – i.e., markets – in the next 3 years “is an acceleration of global populism via taxation, regulation & government intervention.” Just one day later, this […]
France Recalls Ambassador From Italy After “Unprecedented” Verbal Attacks
France Recalls Ambassador From Italy After “Unprecedented” Verbal Attacks The diplomatic row between France and Italy is escalating. More than half a year after Italy summoned the French ambassador over Europe’s migrant row, on Thursday France one-upped Italy when it announced it would recall its ambassador to Italy, citing “outrageous” verbal attacks, repeated “meddling” in […]
RBI Bows To Political Pressure With Unexpected Rate Cut
RBI Bows To Political Pressure With Unexpected Rate Cut Fed Chairman Jerome Powell isn’t the only leader of a major central bank to capitulate to political (and market) pressure so far this year. On Thursday, RBI Gov. Shaktikanta Das during his first meeting at the helm of the bank led a 4-2 vote to cut […]
5 Things To Watch In Natural Gas
5 Things To Watch In Natural Gas A new report from Rystad Energy identifies five vital themes that will shape global gas markets in 2019. Significant LNG production growth, the rise of US gas to challenge Russian dominance in Europe, insatiable demand in Asia, price pressure in selected regions, and a need for final investment decisions on planned […]
How An Italian Debt Crisis Could Take Down The EU
How An Italian Debt Crisis Could Take Down The EU Plagued by another run of bank bailouts and simmering tensions between the partners in its ruling coalition, Italy’s brief reprieve following the detente between its populist rulers and angry bureaucrats in Brussels is already beginning to fade. As Bloomberg reminded us on Monday, Italy’s $1.7 trillion pile of […]
The ‘Cartel’ Is Back: EU Accuses 8 Banks Of Rigging European Government-Bond Markets
The ‘Cartel’ Is Back: EU Accuses 8 Banks Of Rigging European Government-Bond Markets First it was the Libor-rigging cartel, then the FX exchange-rate manipulation cartel, now, European regulators have moved on to prosecuting “anti-competitive” practices in euro-denominated sovereign bond markets. One month after the European antitrust regulators charged Deutsche Bank, Credit Agricole and Credit Suisse of […]
US Suspends Nuclear Arms Treaty Compliance
US Suspends Nuclear Arms Treaty Compliance In a sign that Russia might soon be deploying those new hypersonic missiles that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been showing off lately, Reuters reported that the US is preparing to suspend compliance with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, citing four US officials, opening the door to the reintroduction of medium-range ground-based nuclear […]
Venezuela’s Citgo, Which Refines 5% Of US Gasoline, Is Weighing Bankruptcy
Venezuela’s Citgo, Which Refines 5% Of US Gasoline, Is Weighing Bankruptcy In the latest salvo to emerge from the escalating fight between the Trump administration and Venezuela’s ruling Maduro regime over control of the South American country’s state-owned energy assets, the WSJ reports that in order to protect its operations, Venezuela’s Citgo Petroleum is considering various […]
Europe Launches SWIFT Alternative To Fund Iran In Collision Course With Trump
Europe Launches SWIFT Alternative To Fund Iran In Collision Course With Trump In a move sure to unleash fury from the Trump administration, the European Union has announced it has set up a transactions channel with Iran to bypass US sanctions. The launch of INSTEX — or “Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges” — by France, Germany, and the […]
