Via BetterDwelling.com, Canadian real estate related debt tapering? That would be ridiculous!Filings obtained from the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) show, after a brief decline in January, the balance of loans secured by residential real estate hit a new high in February. More interesting is the segment of loans being used ...
BENGALURU (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc expects groceries and household products to account for over half of its business in India in the next five years, as it moves to broaden offerings in the segment and foray into areas such as fresh produce....
From the latest Weekend Notes by One River Asset Management CIO, Eric Peters: “After the February spike in vol, it was hard to hold onto gamma,” said Roadrunner, the market’s biggest S&P volatility trader. “If you were making markets, you got taken out of every position.” The VIX spiked to 50 on Feb 6th and was back below 15 on Mar 9th. “But in the past few ...
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chinese conglomerate HNA has cut its stake in Deutsche Bank to 7.9 percent, according to a U.S. regulatory filing.READ HNA cuts stake in ...
Authored by Philip Giraldi via The Strategic Culture Foundation, In the wake of last week’s cruise missile attack on Syria, there was a joke going around the internet saying that it doesn’t matter who Americans vote for, they always wind up getting John McCain as President of the United States.The humor derives from ...
French President Emmanuel Macron, the self-styled great persuader and “Trump whisperer”, is facing a monumental task when he arrives in Washington DC on Monday: Convince President Trump to grant the EU a permanent exemption to the steel and aluminum tariffs the US unveiled last month. While Macron isn’t the only European leader visiting the White House this week, Germany’s Angela ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congress needs to consider rolling back the spending deal that U.S. Republicans brokered with Democrats last month, because lawmakers voted to enact the $1.3 trillion legislation without reading it, an aide to President Donald Trump said on Sunday....
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) “cannot imagine” why former FBI Director James Comey is seeking “to essentially cash in on a book” while special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion “is very much alive,” she said Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” Collins, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said Comey is embarked on a book ...
Via Global Macro Monitor, President Reagan certainly understood the nature of markets.That is they do whatever they are going to do, sometimes without a fundamental rhyme or reason. Very different from the current occupant of the White House who seems to think every uptick in the S&P is all about him, and he is ...
A Belgian court is to hand down a verdict on the prime surviving suspect of the 2015 Paris attacks by so-called Islamic State militants. Salah Abdeslam is also charged with attempted murder over a shootout days before his arrest in Brussels and suicide bombings in the Belgian capital in March 2016. He ...
Following a barrage of warnings that protectionism could unleash stagflation in the US economy, with the latest Beige Book mentioning the word “tariff” no less than 36 times in the context of higher prices and slower growth, the US Treasury appears eager to ease back on the growing trade war with China, and overnight Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he is considering a trip to China ...
The French President Emmanuel Macron will begin a three day trip to the U.S. tomorrow (April 23rd) in what will be the first official state visit since President Donald Trump took office.The two leaders are said to have a strong relationship but disagree on many topics. Under discussion will be ...
French President Emmanuel Macron and President Donald Trump have a “very special relationship because both of us are probably the mavericks of the systems” in the U.S. and France, Macron told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace in an interview that aired Sunday. “We have a very special relationship because both of us are probably the mavericks of the systems ...
Seventeen people drowned on a river in China after two dragon boats practicing to race in the traditional Dragon Boat Festival capsized. The accident happened where two flows of the river converge causing a powerful current. Some 57 people went into the water, most were not wearing life jackets. Drag boat racing is ...
