The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has downgraded its earlier estimate of the country’s economic growth in 2025’s final quarter to 0.5 percent.
Category: 14 April 2026
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SPECIAL REPORT: PRIVATE EQUITY WARNING SIGNALS DANGER AHEAD
As we have been detailing and forecasting in The Trends Journal since January, the private credit route is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy: investors panic and yank their money, making other investors reluctant to put money in.
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IN CHINA, AMERICAN BRANDS LOSE THEIR LUSTER
For the first 15 years of this century, U.S. brands were prized by Chinese shoppers not only for their quality, but also as symbols of sophistication.
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WIND POWER IS JUST MORE HOT AIR, REPORT SAYS
A newly released report found that wind farms are not the environmental saviors that environmentalists have long presented as an alternative to fossil fuels.
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ENERGY PRICE SHOCK SPURS CLEAN ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
Governments around the world “have vowed in recent weeks to deploy more clean energy” and reduce their dependence on fossil fuels that flow out of a part of the world always in turbulence, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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TURKEY SELLS OR LOANS GOLD, DRIVING WORLD PRICES DOWN
Since the Iran War began, Turkey’s central bank has sold or loaned about $20 billion worth of its gold bullion.
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TOP TREND 2025: DRAGFLATION
Europe will undergo a period of rising prices and slow or stagnant economic growth due to the Iran War, even if the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran holds or extends, Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Union’s (EU’s) economy minister, warned last week.
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MARKET OVERVIEW
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost ground Friday, but all three major indexes posted gains for the week as traders held out hope that the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. would endure.
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VW SUSPENDS EV PRODUCTION AT TENNESSEE PLANT
Volkswagen will halt production of its ID.4 all-electric SUV at its plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., and instead concentrate on making more of its Atlas internal combustion SUV, the company has announced.
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TRUMP CELEBRATED INDIAN COMPANY’S INVESTMENT IN NEW TEXAS REFINERY, BUT THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
President Donald Trump celebrated a project that would see a company based in India play a central role in a $300 billion deal to build the first new refinery on U.S. soil in 50 years, but the Financial Times reported last week that details of the deal remain murky and potentially embarrassing for the president.