As we had forecast, with Donald Trump winning the race to the White House and promising to cut corporate taxes and lower interest rates, M&A activity will accelerate. Here are the latest deals…FRONTIER TRIES AGAIN TO BUY SPIRIT AIRLINESSpirit Airlines has spurned a $2.1-billion cash-and-stock offer from Frontier Airlines, saying the offer was too low but......
Category: 4 February 2025
TOP TREND 2025, DRAGFLATION: EUROZONE ECONOMY FLATLINED IN FOURTH QUARTER
The Eurozone’s economy stagnated in 2024’s final three months as GDPs in France, Germany, and Ireland contracted.
SPOTLIGHT, TOP TREND 2025: THE TRUMP CARD
Trump Media and Technology Group, in which Donald Trump is the majority shareholder, is launching Truth.Fi, an investment venture that plans to buy Bitcoin and other digital assets as well as conventional financial instruments, the company has announced.
SPOTLIGHT: ECONOMIC GLOOM OR ECONOMIC BOOM?
What is totally ignored in the reports by the government and the mainstream media is that the economic downside of both developed and emerging market economies is a direct result of three years of fighting the COVID War…
HEDGE FUNDS PLACE MASSIVE BETS ON U.S. MARKET “CRASH”
Hedge funds have spent billions of dollars taking short positions on U.S. equity markets, betting “against Donald Trump’s America amid fears of a market crash,” the Financial Times reported.
GOLD FUTURES’ PRICE SETS NEW RECORD
The April gold futures contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange set a new record of $2,853.20 during trading on 30 January and closed the day at $2,845.20.
MICROSOFT CEO PRAISES DEEPSEEK, WILL OFFER THE R1 TO ITS CUSTOMERS
“DeepSeek has had some real innovations,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during a 27 January call with investors. “Obviously now that all gets commoditized and it’s going to get broadly used.”
ITALY SUSPENDS DEEPSEEK
Italy has blocked residents’ access to DeepSeek, citing concerns about the company’s potential abuses of users’ personal data.
ECB CUTS INTEREST RATE AGAIN
On 30 January, the European Central Bank (ECB) cut interest rates on Thursday for the fifth time since June, dropping its rate on deposits to 2.75 percent and its marginal lending rate to 3.15 percent.
DEEPSEEK’S COMPETITORS CLAIM EQUAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS
DeepSeek is not the only Chinese AI developer coming forward to challenge U.S. dominance in the industry. Others, and at least one in the U.S., are stepping up.