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ECONOMIC UPDATE — MARKET OVERVIEW

ECONOMIC UPDATE — MARKET OVERVIEW

Inflation is all the economic “news.” It’s deflation in China, they say inflation in Europe is OK and in the U.S., today’s headline article on CNBC is, Stocks give up earlier gains as traders await more inflation data.

Global Economy

SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER

SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER

About 54 percent of small and mid-size public companies and smaller private equity firms see 2025 as a good year for mergers and takeovers, according to a Citizens Financial survey.

ARGENTINA’S MILEI ABOLISHES KEY TARIFFS

ARGENTINA’S MILEI ABOLISHES KEY TARIFFS

Javier Milei, Argentina’s maverick president, has abolished the country’s blanket tariff of 7.5 percent on imported goods and trimmed import duties on a broad range of items “from acne cream to funeral urns,” the Financial Times reported.

CHINESE BOND YIELD SINKS TO RECORD LOW AS ECONOMY DEFLATES

CHINESE BOND YIELD SINKS TO RECORD LOW AS ECONOMY DEFLATES

The yield on the bellwether 10-year Chinese government bond slumped to 1.6 percent as the new year began and has remained close to that level, signaling that investors have glum expectations for the country’s economic growth and a reversal in the deflation that has plagued the world’s second-largest economy, the Financial Times reported.

The Israel War

Aerial View Of North Gaza Destroyed With IDF Tanks On The Beach

GAZA DEATH TOLL

The death toll in Gaza reached 46,645 on Tuesday as mediators say a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is closer than ever. 

President-elect Donald Trump In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

TRUMP LIVES BY HIS WORD: WILL ISRAEL ACCEPT CEASEFIRE PROPOSAL

President-elect Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy has reportedly applied new pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire agreement with Hamas and bring the 15-month-old genocide in Gaza to an end in exchange for the remaining hostages. 

AI

AI IN BRIEF

AI IN BRIEF

Headline start-up firms including Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI coaxed a record $97 billion from venture capital funds in 2024, PitchBook reported, about a third more than the year before. 

FINDING EUROPE’S PLACE IN THE AI REVOLUTION

FINDING EUROPE’S PLACE IN THE AI REVOLUTION

The dominant AI models might be made by U.S. companies such as Google and OpenAI, but Europe can create an AI industry around tailoring apps based on those platforms for specific industries and companies, Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström said in a Financial Times interview. 

NVIDIA AS VENTURE CAPITALIST

NVIDIA AS VENTURE CAPITALIST

Nvidia passed a $3-trillion market cap in June on its ownership of an estimated 80 percent or more of the market in graphics processing units, the chips that make AI work. 

Hi-Tech Science

QUANTUM SOFTWARE FOR YOUR QUANTUM COMPUTER

QUANTUM SOFTWARE FOR YOUR QUANTUM COMPUTER

Quantum computers, which capitalize on quirks of quantum physics to operate orders of magnitude faster than silicon-based machines, are barely emerging from the experimental stage but software designers are already making programs for them.

The above are just a few of the many articles in the latest Trends Journal. CLICK HERE for the full edition.

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