November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
US investor Stephen P. Lynch, who has decades of business dealings in Moscow, has reportedly asked US officials for permission to bid on the sabotaged Nord Stream 2 pipeline if it is auctioned off in a Swiss bankruptcy court, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Lynch has discussed with US senators, Treasury officials, […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
Authored by Matt Crosby via BitcoinMagazine.com, As Bitcoin once again finds itself in price discovery mode, market watchers and enthusiasts are curious: has retail FOMO set in yet, or is the retail surge we’ve seen in past bull cycles still on the horizon? Using data from active addresses, historical cycles, and various market indicators, we’ll […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
One of the big bearish overhangs looming over the oil market is the now conventional wisdom that as a result of accelerating supply and slowing demand, 2025 will see an oil glut potentially as large as 1million bpd, a surplus which will depress prices and prevent OPEC+ from boosting output (of course, conventional wisdom is […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
Authored by Linnea Leuken & H. Sterlin Burnett via RealClearPolitics, When electric power was a novel idea and just beginning to be adopted in urban centers, the industry had a Wild West feel to it as multiple companies strung wires, opened power plants, and sold electricity on an unregulated market. Competition was fierce, but state […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
NATO’s most recent survey of its member country populations showed that even among those nations that are Ukraine’s biggest supporters in terms of its war effort against Russia, many constituents disagree with continued support. This has also been increasing since NATO posed the same question in its annual survey in November 2022. You will find more infographics at […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com As Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices have hit a one-year high, their premium over with the U.S. benchmark gas price has widened well above 2024 averages, signaling that U.S. LNG exporters will likely further boost deliveries to Europe to take advantage of the widening spread. Currently, the price of the […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
With an aging global population, age-related healthcare industries are expanding rapidly, leading to a shortage of nearly four million medical professionals, according to recent WHO estimates. As a result, countries are vying to attract doctors trained in foreign countries, hoping to bolster their physician workforces. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao, visualizes the share of […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
Via Remix News, Data from the German federal government shows that the overwhelming majority of those receiving welfare payments, known as citizen’s money in Germany, have a foreign background. The statistics from the Federal Employment Agency (BA), provided to Welt newspaper, show that of the more than 4 million people who can work but receive social […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
On Thursday Moscow issued a fresh warning to the US and West, following Washington and London giving the greenlight for Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles against Russian territory, which at this point has already happened in at least two instances (separate cross-border attacks using the US ATACMS and UK Storm Shadows). Russia has said a […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
Authored by Pepe Escobar, At the APEC annual summit in Lima, Comrade Xi Jinping was practically coronated as the King of Peru, as a lively moveable feast celebrated the brand new $1.3 billion Chancay-Shanghai Maritime Silk Road across the Pacific. There could hardly be a more auspicious counterpart to the action in South America than […]