The Pentagon on Wednesday announced a new security assistance package worth up to $175 million for Ukraine, including depleted uranium ammunition for Abrams tanks, the first time the US is sending the controversial armor-piercing munitions to Kyiv. Reuters was first to report last week that the rounds, which could help destroy ...
NEW DELHI – Invites sent by Indian President Droupadi Murmu calling herself “President of Bharat” for a dinner on the sidelines of the G20 summit have stirred speculation that the government may be about to change the country’s name. WHAT IS THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT INDIA‘S NAME? By convention, invitations issued by Indian ...
Moderna and rival Pfizer on Wednesday said their updated COVID-19 vaccines generated strong responses in testing against the highly mutated BA.2.86 subvariant of the coronavirus that has raised fears of a resurgence of infections. Moderna said its shot generated an 8.7-fold increase in neutralizing antibodies against BA.2.86 compared with an untreated ...
TOKYO – Policymakers in Tokyo believe China’s deepening economic woes could hit Japan’s fragile recovery, especially if Beijing fails to shore up demand with meaningful stimulus, potentially delaying an exit from ultra-loose monetary policy. China’s downturn would leave Japan’s export-reliant economy with little external support as aggressive Federal Reserve interest rate ...
AMSTERDAM – The summer of 2023 was the hottest on record, according to data from the European Union Climate Change Service released on Wednesday. The three-month period from June through August surpassed previous records by a large margin, with an average temperature of 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.2F) – 0.66C above ...
The possible bankruptcy of Thames Water Company in Great Britain brings to mind the heady days 40 years ago when Margaret Thatcher’s government was privatizing state-owned enterprises, including TW. Not all privatization stories have happy endings. Original Article: “Thatcher’s New ...
Crack-Up Capitalism will be of interest to many readers of The Austrian because of what it says about Murray Rothbard; and for the most part, I shall limit my review to discussing this. The main point of the book is ...
In this edition of StockCharts TV‘s The Final Bar, guest Ari Wald, CFA, CMT of Oppenheimer & Co. shows how energy stocks are taking a leadership role, with high beta sectors still outperforming low volatility defensive stocks. Host David Keller, CMT tracks ...
With Labor Day weekend behind us, it’s time to get back to the business of following the stock market. As the broader stock market indexes show signs of a September slowdown, crude oil is grabbing attention. And when crude oil ...
On July 5th, Mish wrote an article called “Sell in July and Go Away? Calendar Range Reset”. In that article, she noted, “should IWM fail to clear the calendar range high and worse, break down under a new 6-month calendar ...