Merger and Acquisition took a break when the Federal Reserve and EU began aggressively raising interest rates from their zero and negative levels.
Category: 23 January 2024
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SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
China’s economy expanded by 5.2 percent in 2023, edging past its 5-percent target, the most modest in more than two decades, according to the country’s statistics office.
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TOP TREND 2024, BANKS GO BUST
Topping last year’s record of $541 billion, in 2027 $602 billion in loans against commercial real estate are scheduled to mature, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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SPECIAL REPORT: WAR IN THE RED SEA—THE ECONOMIC IMPACT
The Israel War keeps ramping up as the United States and the U.K. keep launching attacks on the Houthis in Yemen.
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ARAMCO ADDS $4 BILLION TO ITS VENTURE FUND
Saudi Aramco, the world’s richest oil company, will more than double its venture capital fund.
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TOP TREND 2024, EV GO FU: EV SALES TANK IN EUROPE
In December, electric vehicle (EV) sales in Germany plummeted by half, year on year. The plunge led EVs’ Europe-wide sales to shrink for the first time since 2020.
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GERMANY’S ECONOMY SHRANK BY 0.3 PERCENT IN 2023
Germany—battered by high interest rates, slowing global sales and continued high energy costs—Europe’s largest economy and the fourth largest one in the world... saw the heart of its manufacturing industry contract by 0.3 percent in 2023, according to the country’s National Statistics Office.
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2024: THE YEAR FOREIGN POLICY DELUSIONS DIE HARD
The war in Ukraine is ending in catastrophic defeat for Ukraine and the United States. The war in the Middle East is just beginning, and it will not end when the Israeli State decides to stop fighting.
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CAN THIS PROBIOTIC FIX YOUR GUT AND HAIR?
The probiotic bacteria Lactobacillus reuteri help upregulate the hormone oxytocin, a chemical messenger that plays important roles in the male and female reproductive systems and influences aspects of human behavior, including sexual arousal, recognition, trust and interpersonal bonding
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DEBT BOMB READY TO EXPLODE
“We have a huge fiscal problem everywhere,” Tim Adams, CEO of the International Institute for Finance (IIF), said in a CNBC interview at the World Economic Forum earlier this month.