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.
This is week 46 of job cuts. And get ready for a bad situation to get much worse. The higher the U.S. and EU raise interest rates the deeper economies will decline and the higher the unemployment numbers will rise.
Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco), the largest U.S. active bond fund manager, believes markets are far too optimistic about the U.S. Federal Reserve’s and European Central Bank’s ability to bring inflation to heel without causing a recession.
The number of business and personal Chapter 11 bankruptcies shot up to 2,973 during this year’s first five months, a 68-percent increase from the 1,766 in the same period in 2022, data service Epiq Bankruptcy reported on 3 July.
In June, wages were 4.4 percent higher than a year earlier and unemployment edged down to 3.6 percent from 3.7 percent in May.
All 11 voting members of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee agreed to defer an interest rate increase in June’s meeting, the session's newly-released minutes show.
The true fear of an economic calamity on the near horizon was further clarified yesterday as gold once again illustrated its status as the world’s number one safe-haven asset.
Over the next 18 months, commercial real estate values will plunge by as much as 40 percent in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington DC, according to a new forecast from Capital Economics.