The IDF has killed at least 72,336 Palestinians in Gaza, and an additional 172,213 have been wounded as Israel continues to carry out strikes and attacks on the enclave, despite the so-called ceasefire announced in October 2025.
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Gilead Sciences, a California pharma, is paying $3.15 billion to take over Tubulis, a German developer of drugs that more effectively deliver chemotherapy treatments to cancer tumors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TRUMP PROMISED A BLUE-COLLAR JOBS BOOM. WHERE IS IT?
After Congress passed Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” last summer, the White House crowed that the measure’s tax cuts would “unleash our economy and deliver a Blue-Collar jobs BOOM!”
FUEL SURCHARGES WALLOP SMALL U.S. BUSINESSES
Delivery services including FedEx, UPS, and the U.S. postal service are adding surcharges to their fees to cover the surge in fuel costs.









