Investors are raising concerns about the possibility that London is trying to increase its borrowing limits to help fund its militarization in response to what its government sees as a heightened risk from Russia.
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PRO-ISRAEL U.S. AMBASSADOR HUCKABEE SAYS IT’D BE ‘FINE’ IF ISRAEL TOOK OVER MUCH OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Mike Huckabee, the pro-Zionist U.S. ambassador to Israel, said in an interview last week that he believes it would be “fine” if Israel claimed much of the Middle East, stating that God promised the land to his chosen people.
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Chicago-based asset manager Nuveen will buy Schroder’s, the iconic, 200-year-old London financial services firm, for $13.5 billion.
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SPOTLIGHT: THE AUTO INDUSTRY’S ROUGH ROAD
Nissan Motor will post losses totaling $4.2 billion this fiscal year as it continues its restructuring plan to survive in a global market defined by weak auto sales, U.S. tariffs, and a slower-than-expected shift among consumers to electric cars.
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BEIJING CLAMPS DOWN ON CHINA’S AI STOCK BOOM
While U.S.-listed stocks related to artificial intelligence (AI) swell their valuations unchecked, Chinese officials are taking steps to quell what might be seen as irrational exuberance.
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U.K. ECONOMY MANAGES TO GROW FOR A SECOND YEAR
The British economy grew 1.3 percent last year, building on 2025’s 1.1-percent expansion, the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics reported. The GDP advanced 0.1 percent in each of last year’s third and fourth quarters.
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U.S. LABOR DEPARTMENT SLASHES JOB GROWTH TOTALS AGAIN
In 2025, U.S. businesses added just 181,000 nonfarm jobs, an average of barely 15,000 a month and 69 percent fewer than the 584,000 previously estimated, the U.S. labor department said last week.
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AMERICANS BEAR BRUNT OF TRUMP’S TARIFFS, DESPITE ASSURANCES FROM WHITE HOUSE
The New York Federal Reserve released a study last week that found the American consumer and companies paid about 90 percent of the tariffs that were implemented under President Donald Trump, despite promises from the White House that trading partners would bear the brunt of the costs.
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U.S. HOME SALES DROP SHARPLY, SIGNALING “NEW HOUSING CRISIS”
In January, the sale of pre-owned U.S. homes dove 8.4 percent from December’s volume and 4.4 percent below the number in January 2025 to set the slowest pace since December 2023 and the sharpest month-on-month decline since February 2022, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported.
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HEALTHCARE, SOCIAL ASSISTANCE OWN THE U.S. JOBS MARKET
Through the past three years, the number of jobs in healthcare and social assistance has grown by 12.5 percent while net job growth in all other economic sectors has totaled less than 2 percent, The Wall Street Journal reported.