Money talks. A lucrative and powerful fertility industry might help decide whether the U.K. legalizes heritable genome editing (HGE) next year.
Author: admin (Kendrick Williams)
TO NEGOTIATE OR NOT TO NEGOTIATE FOR UKRAINE PEACE… THAT’S NOT A LEGIT QUESTION IN THE U.S.
Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has become the highest U.S. military official to speak publicly about how Ukraine, which has been making gains on the battlefield, might want to negotiate sooner rather than later with Russia.
NEW WORLD DISORDER TOP TREND: PROTESTS ERUPT ACROSS EUROPE.
Protests broke out across Europe last week over soaring inflation and wages that are not keeping up with the cost of goods, leading to a “New World Disorder” that will result in widespread civil unrest that will likely only get worse.
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
As forecast, the Merger and Acquisition trend which we have been long reporting would peak when the Federal Reserve would aggressively raise interest rates and cut off the cheap money supply.
SPOTLIGHT: CHINA
In dollar terms, the value of China’s exports in October fell 0.3 percent, year on year, falling far short of the 4.3-percent increase that analysts had predicted, due to the U.S. and European Union buying less.
TORONTO’S HOME SALES FALL BY HALF IN OCTOBER
The number of homes sold in October in metro Toronto, Canada’s largest city, fell by 49.1 percent from a year earlier, with the number of homes for sale falling to a level last seen in 2020, the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board reported last week.
IRON ORE PRICES FALL TO THREE-YEAR LOW
The price of iron ore fell to $79.50 a metric ton on 31 October, down 17 percent last month from September and reaching its lowest point since November 2019 as the world’s economy—and China’s in particular—continue to slow, S&P Global Commodity Insights reported.
NORWAY’S CENTRAL BANK RAISES RATE BY SMALLER AMOUNT
Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway, added a quarter-point to its benchmark interest rate last week, after raising the rate by a half-point in September.
ADJUSTABLE-RATE MORTGAGES PUT SPANISH HOMEOWNERS AT THE BRINK
The European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) recent interest rate increases are pushing Spain’s homeowners toward default, the Financial Times reported.