Back in November of 2022, The Trends Journal had forecast a stock market spike in 2023. We noted that over the past 40 U.S. midterm elections, the S&P 500 rose 16.3 percent in the next 12 months and considering the economic data, the trend would continue.
For many years now, I have warned that at one point a “maximum saturation” moment would eventually occur in the financial system—it’s already started.
Authors looking for permissionless web3 alternatives to Amazon or Barnes & Noble to publish their works have yet to see anything that approaches the ease of use of those platforms.
As we had long forecast, the higher central banks raise interest rates, the lower the Merger and Acquisition trend… which hit record highs at the height of the COVID War in 2021 when interest rates sank and governments pumped in countless trillions to artificially prop up sinking economies.
Last month, economic activity picked up in China’s retail and travel industries as well as at computer chip and smartphone factories, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported.
In July, Britain’s economy contracted most sharply since December, with GDP puckering by 0.5 percent compared to July and busting analysts’ expectations of a 0.2-percent slide.
The European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) decision last week to signal that its interest rate may now have peaked was not unanimous.
On 14 September, the European Central Bank (ECB) raised its key interest rate for the 10th time in as many meetings, bumping it by a quarter point to an even 4 percent, the highest since the euro currency was introduced in 1999.
Since January, oil production cuts by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries have subtracted 2.5 million barrels a day from the world’s oil supply, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has calculated.