Shigeru Ishiba, Japan’s former defense minister and next prime minister, hopes to make significant changes to the military alliance structure in the country and aims to create a military alliance akin to NATO.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
The economic data coming in across the globe is gloomy. The facts are in the numbers. Factory orders in Japan keep shrinking as its PMI slumped to 49.7 in September from 49.8—below the 50.0 mark for the third straight month... which signals negative growth.
AMEX STOCK DROPS AS ANALYSTS WARN OF WEAK CONSUMER SPENDING
American Express’s share price shrank 2.8 percent on 21 August after Bank of America (BoA) analysts warned of weak consumer spending.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
What in the world is going on? Go to the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, etc., and read all about it.
TOYOTA, VOLKSWAGEN REPORT IMPROVED FINANCIALS
The weak yen and robust sales of gas-electric hybrid vehicles increased Toyota’s net profit by 1.7 percent to ¥1.33 trillion year on year, equivalent to about $8.89 billion, during its fiscal first quarter, the company said.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
We note that old Great Depression song, “What a Difference a Day Made” to show how, in just “24 little hours” the equity markets, like life, can go from the sky being stormy to “moments of bliss.”
HUGO BOSS SHARE PRICE SLUMPS AS LUXURY MARKETS CONTINUE TO SHRINK
On 16 July, German high-fashion clothier Hugo Boss saw its share price dive as much as 10 percent after it trimmed its 2024 sales forecast from €4.5 billion to €4.35 billion.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
It’s all in the numbers. The global economy is going down and as per our trend forecast, interest rates in the U.S. and EU will also be going down. Indeed, yesterday, Fed Head Jerome Powell said the Fed would lower interest rates even if inflation did not hit the made-up 2 percent target rate that the former Fed Head Ben Bernanke invented in 2012.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
“Economic Cracks Are Getting Exposed in the 2024 Market Bounty,” was a headline story in Bloomberg last Friday.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
Dot.com Bust 2.0 coming? Not according to The Street. It’s a Nvidia world of AI... which is no surprise to Trends Journal subscribers. “AI WE OWN YOU” was a Top Trend for 2023.