Central banks bought more than 1,000 metric tons of gold last year, accounting for about 20 percent of the market. It was the third consecutive year in which the banks bought gold in such large amounts.
Category: HOMEPAGE
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TRUMP GIVES HAMAS DEADLINE TO RELEASE HOSTAGES OR ‘ALL HELL IS GOING TO BREAK OUT’
U.S. President Donald Trump sent another message to Hamas warning the group that “all hell is going to break out” if it does not release the remaining hostages.
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DOES ASI MEAN KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE?
It turns out, we’ve been relative techno-optimists in these pages, who knew?
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IRAN REJECTS TRUMP’S BULLYING ATTEMPT, LEADER SAYS NEGOTIATING WITH U.S. IS NEITHER SMART OR WISE
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to sanction the country into submission and said negotiating with Washington is “neither smart, wise, or honorable.”
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CHINA’S MAJOR CORPORATIONS BLEEDING CASH
Close to 25 percent of businesses listed on China’s stock exchanges reported a third-quarter net loss, the most recent period for which data has been reported.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
As we detail in this and previous Trends Journals, with the exception of the United States, most developed and underdeveloped nation’s economies are sluggish and/or in Dragflation: declining economic growth and rising inflation.
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HAS DEEPSEEK POPPED THE AI INDUSTRY’S BUBBLE?
Now DeepSeek, a Chinese AI skunkworks, says its R1 AI model cost just $6 million to develop. Tests show that it performs about as well on many tasks as the newest systems from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
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TRUMP DOUBLE DOWNS ON MOVING GAZANS TO JORDAN, EGYPT
U.S. President Donald Trump last week doubled down on his plan to force Jordan and Egypt to accept Gazan refugees due to the extensive damage inside the enclave that Israel has bombed to ruins.
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FOREVERLAND: TECH CAN’T MATCH THE BEST LONGEVITY BOOSTER
Bio hackers and gurus spending and investing on venture capital projects to produce radical tech-based life extension, are indeed becoming commonplace news in 2025, as we had forecast in our 2025 Top Trend, “WELCOME TO FOREVERLAND” (2 Jan 2025).
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IRAN WARNS ISRAEL, U.S. AGAINST TARGETING ITS NUCLEAR SITES, SAYS IT WOULD LEAD TO ‘ALL-OUT WAR’
A top Iranian said Friday that an attack by Israel or the U.S. on one of its nuclear sites would lead to an “all-out” war and would be “one of the biggest historical mistakes” that Washington could make.