In March, the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) slowed to an annual growth rate of 5 percent, its slowest since May 2021 and a full point below February’s 6-percent pace, the labor department reported.
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U.S. INVESTMENT FUNDS SEE GREATER OPPORTUNITIES ABROAD
United States asset managers are increasing their holdings in stock markets abroad, prospecting for havens that minimize the impact of the high interest rates and economic uncertainty plaguing equity prices at home, the Financial Times reported.
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THE REASON TO OWN STOCKS INSTEAD OF BONDS IS DISAPPEARING
The “equity risk premium”—the extra profit investors collect for owning stocks instead of bonds—has shrunk to 1.59 percentage points, its smallest since October 2007, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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U.S. RAMPING UP WAR WITH CHINA
Gerald Celente has long said the business of China is business, and the business of the U.S. is war.
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UKRAINE TO LOSE WAR: U.S. TRIES TO SAVE FACE AFTER CLASSIFIED DOC LEAK
When Russia launched the Ukraine War on 24 February 2022, The Trends Journal had forecast that despite mainstream media “experts” and U.S./NATO government “officials” forecasting that Ukraine would defeat Russia, we had forecast the opposite.
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FED OFFICIALS: PUSH THOSE INTEREST RATES UP HIGHER AND FOR LONGER
The U.S. Federal Reserve should raise its key interest rate above 5 percent and leave it there until inflation shows clear signs of retreating, Loretta Mester, president of the Federal Bank of Cleveland, said in an 11 April speech at New York University.
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POST-SPAC MERGED COMPANIES WRITE OFF $11.57 BILLION
Businesses that went public by merging with special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in the past three years wrote off $11.57 billion in so-called “goodwill impairment charges” in 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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COVID-19 FALLOUT: SUICIDE RATES IN U.S. JUMP FOR FIRST TIME IN YEARS AMID LOCKDOWNS
The National Center for Health Statistics said last week that suicide rates in the U.S. rose 4 percent in 2021 after falling for the two previous years while politicians were locking down Americans to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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U.S. SUBMERGED IN ‘FOREVER CHEMICALS’ IN DRINKING WATER, D.C. LYING ABOUT IT
The authors of a new study published in the journal Science said they found 26 different types of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances—known as PFAS, or “forever chemicals” – including half that are not identified by the Environmental Protection Agency’s test methods.
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AMERICAN PARENTS HAVING TOUGH ECONOMIC TIME TAKING CARE OF ADULT KIDS
A new poll released by Bankrate found that seven in 10 parents with adult children are currently making financial sacrifices to help provide for their offspring.