Stock prices slid on Tuesday, 28 September, bumped through Wednesday, and fell again on Thursday, September’s last day, while the best bond yields in months also lured investors away from tech stocks. Alphabet, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, all of which have outperformed the broader market this year, each dropped...
Calgary-based Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) will buy the Kansas City Southern railroad for $28.9 billion in cash and stock, CP announced on 21 March. The deal marks the first...
News Corp, the Murdoch family empire that owns the Wall Street Journal, will buy the Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) newspaper and website for $275 million, News Corp has announced. IBD will remain a separate brand and will be operated by News Corp’s Dow Jones unit, which publishes Barron’s and...
...bioscience operation. GOLD MINING COMPANIES MERGE Gold Fields Ltd., a South African gold miner, will buy Canada-based Yamana Gold in an all-stock deal worth about $6.7 billion, based on recent...
As rising mortgage interest rates, record-high home prices, and inflation squeeze more and more individuals and families out of the house-buying market, home builders are turning to professional investors to replace them. Investors buy homes in popular markets and nice neighborhoods, then rent them to people who want to...
...week. In the year’s first quarter, the bank bought ¥425 billion worth of the bonds four times a month. It will now buy ¥500 billion worth on the same schedule....
KKR BID TO BUY TELECOM ITALIA SPARKS BATTLE FOR CONTROL The board of Telecom Italia (TI), Italy’s largest telecommunications provider, met Sunday to mull a takeover bid from U.S....
A key element of trend forecasting is “Don’t buy the buzz.” Just go back to the dot.com years of the 1990s, when the Geek World hit center stage. Speaking the language of their world, which made little actual, economic or common sense in the real world, geeks sold their...
Online payments pioneer Paypal will buy Paidy, a Japanese buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) app, in a mostly-cash, $2.7-billion deal, the Financial Times reported. Paidy launched its delayed-payments app only last year. It allows its six million users to spread payments over three equal monthly installments with no interest. The idea is...
Sales of non-essential, non-prescription items such as beauty care products etc., at drug stores have fallen as foot traffic during the shutdown disappeared. Sales of such items at CVS stores was down 4.5 percent in the second quarter, year-on-year. Walgreen’s reported sales at its non-U.S. locations slumped by 48...
...phytochemicals had direct correlates with ingredients used in approved pharmaceutical drugs on the market. Taking one excellent example of the synergistic effects of herbal combinations in TCM is the duo...
Chinese regulators have approved Blackrock’s application to sell mutual funds in the country through its Blackrock Fund Management Co., a wholly-owned, Shanghai-based subsidiary. Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager...
Remdesivir has significantly higher incidences of serious side effects than cheaper drugs like hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, that many frontline doctors say are effective against COVID. Despite that, Remdesivir remains...
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It’s all in the numbers. Life on Earth is getting more miserable by the day. A Gallup poll released today shows that thanks to the dictators who locked down the world to fight the COVID War, the “World is Unhappier, More Stressed Out Than Ever.” Their findings show that: ...
OK, so it’s only a two-seater and can barely top 40 mph. But there’s room for groceries and it carries a price tag of only $7,500. And, according to the manufacturer, making one will take only three days. The LSEV, as it’s called, is a child of the union...
The Canadian prairie, parts of South America, and large swaths of Africa are in prolonged drought; the U.S. southwest is the driest it’s been in a century and the Ogallala Aquifer underlying the central U.S. is being pumped out faster than its water is being replenished. In a drying...
...and to China, leaving emerging and low-income countries to deal with a lack of access to cheap borrowing, which in turn keeps them from spending to stimulate their economies. And...
U.S. MARKET OVERVIEW In The Bronx, there is a saying: “Bullshit has its own sound.” While we have long been forecasting that inflation pressures would continue to rise, we kept noting that Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell and the rest of the Bankster Gang had been spewing out...
At this week’s U.S. Federal Reserve meeting, the Banksters will discuss when to begin tapering off the central bank’s $120-billion-a-month bond-buying program, and raise interest rates now that the nation’s economic recovery has allegedly blossomed more quickly than they had forecast at the beginning of this year. The cheap...
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