Lower interest rates will be a boon to private equity firms, which tend to use debt to fund takeovers. The sector has booked $531 billion in deals so far this year, 38 percent more than by this time last year.
Category: 8 October 2024
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SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
China’s equity markets have soared over the past two weeks in a way not seen in 16 years after the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) made cheap loans available to buy stocks.
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TOP TREND 2023: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
At the 2020 onset of the COVID War and the shift to remote work, we correctly had forecast in May of 2020 that office buildings’ market value would plunge.
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TOP TREND 2024, EV GO FU: EUROPEAN COMMISSION VOTES TO SET TARIFFS ON CHINESE EVS
The European Commission (EC) has received enough support from member nations to lay tariffs as high as 45 percent on electric vehicles (EVs) coming from China through 2029, the body announced.
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SPECIAL REPORT: AUTO INDUSTRY HITS THE SKIDS
Slowing auto sales and reduced profit outlooks from major European carmakers may indicate a longer-term trough for the industry, analysts told the Financial Times.
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SPOTLIGHT: RETAIL ON THE ROPES
Since China launched the COVID War in January 2020 on its Lunar New Year, “The Year of the Rat,” The Trends Journal had long forecast that the world’s governments propping up economies with countless trillions of dollars backed by noting and printed on nothing…
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: HURRICANE HELENE SHOWS CITIZENS SECOND CLASS, AND GENE EDITING “INTO THE WILD”
To those who suppose gene editing would be confined to making plants more resilient to climate conditions like droughts, or to blights which affect some species: think again.
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
China’s economy since 2021 hasn’t kept up with expectations, in part due to its own major miscalculations.
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ALUMINUM CAN SALES RISE AS VENDORS DITCH PLASTIC
Ball and Crown Holdings, two of the world’s largest makers of aluminum cans, are seeing sales rise as beverage manufacturers and consumers forsake glass and plastic.
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EL SALVADOR CONTINUES TO BLAZE ITS OWN BITCOIN TRAIL
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) isn’t happy. But El Salvador under President Nayib Bukule is solidifying its pro bitcoin policies, meant to provide a stable reserve to the country, and to allow citizens to transact in the most recognized and widely held crypto asset.