Asian nations, heavily reliant on oil and gas imports from Gulf nations, face the prospect of continuing price increases and scarcities of fuels, which increase the chance that the region will fall into a major economic crisis, the Financial Times reported.
Key factors are converging to sink the German economy into recession, according to a report by Russian news service RT.
In March, inflation in Germany and Spain ticked up 0.1 of a percentage point, accelerating price increases to their fastest annual rate in two years.
In this year’s first quarter, the economy of the 20-country Eurozone grew 0.1 percent from 2025’s final three months. It posted an annualized GDP increase of 0.6 percent.
As we keep noting by the facts; there is no relationship between Wall Street and Main Street, and by the facts and statements made by President Trump and his administration, they keep doing all they can to rig the equity markets.
The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index, the LEI, fell 0.6% in March to 97.3, more than reversing February’s small bounce.
Construction began in March on 1.502 million new homes in the U.S., a 10.8-percent increase from February, when housing starts declined by 3 percent to 1.356 million, the U.S. commerce department reported.
President Donald Trump repeated his claim that the U.S. military already defeated the Iranians in the war that started on 28 February but said he wants to win “by a bigger margin.”
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said last week that press freedom around the world has hit a 25-year low as more than “half the world’s countries now fall into the ‘difficult’ or ‘various serious’ categories for press freedom.”
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released a report last week that accused the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), under former President Joe Biden, of ignoring research from a senior official within the agency that identified dozens of “statistically significant safety signals for adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines.”