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Tag Archive for: july 5 2022
CHINA’S ECONOMY RETURNS TO GROWTH IN JUNE After contracting for three consecutive months, China’s economy grew modestly in June....
EUROZONE INFLATION RISES TO 8.6 PERCENT IN JUNE Another month, another 40-year record for inflation in the 19-country Eurozone....
SWEDEN’S CENTRAL BANK RAISES INTEREST RATE A HALF-POINT
Support, , TRENDS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC FRONT, july 5 2022, 0Sweden’s Riksbank became the latest national bank to take action against inflation, raising its key interest rate by a...
GLOBAL FACTORY OUTPUT SLOWS AS CONSUMERS CUT SPENDING
Support, , TRENDS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC FRONT, july 5 2022, 0Around the world, factories are seeing slower demand for their products, or cutting production outright, as prices climb, interest...
DRAGFLATION TOP TREND: STRONG DOLLAR BATTERS EMERGING NATIONS’ CURRENCIES
Support, , TRENDS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC FRONT, july 5 2022, 0Foreign-exchange traders are selling currencies of emerging nations and stockpiling dollars, according to The Wall Street Journal. Earlier this...
THE RESTAURANT STRUGGLE: PRICES UP CUSTOMERS DOWN
Support, , TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT, july 5 2022, 3The number of diners visiting casual sit-down restaurants such as Applebee’s and Olive Garden was 3 percent less in...
The average interest rate for a 30-year, fixed rate mortgage loan settled back to 5.70 percent during the week...
PENSION FUNDS, FACING DEFICITS, BORROW TO INVEST
Support, , TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT, july 5 2022, 7U.S. pension funds are falling far short of the money they need to meet the payments they will owe...
RISING INTEREST RATES INFLATE GOVERNMENT SPENDING
Support, , TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT, july 5 2022, 0Yields on U.S. treasury securities have been rising with interest rates and the federal government’s debt service payments are...
CONSUMER SPENDING AND FACTORY ORDERS GOING DOWN
Support, , TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT, july 5 2022, 0Consumer spending increased 1.8 percent in this year’s first quarter, year over year, according to the U.S. commerce department,...
2022 TOP TREND, DRAGFLATION: CONSUMER SPENDING GOING DOWN
Support, , TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT, july 5 2022, 0U.S. consumer spending rose just 0.2 percent in June, year over year, the slowest pace this year, a third...
STOCK PLAYERS LOST MORE THAN $9 TRILLION THIS YEAR
Support, , TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT, july 5 2022, 0As U.S. stock markets booked their worst first half of a year since 1970, investors lost more than $9...
The European Union (EU) has settled on a coherent set of regulations to govern digital assets throughout the 19-country...
The COVID-19 outbreak brought on days of reckoning for governments and private companies when it comes to workers' rights....
FOURTH OF JULY TRAVEL CHAOS MORE THAN 180 FLIGHTS GROUNDED
Support, , TRENDS EYE VIEW, july 5 2022, 3Millions of Americans travel on the Fourth of July each year and there’s a good chance that if you...
#Bullshit The New York State Senate on Friday passed new gun legislation that includes requiring gun-permit applicants to submit...
COVID KILLED HUMAN SPIRIT: JACK YOUR DEAD. RETAIL WORKERS FEAR VIOLENCE
Support, , TRENDS IN THE COVID WAR, july 5 2022, 0A growing number of retail workers have expressed concern for their safety after recent incidents across the U.S. that...
Sub Variants of the Omicron strain of the coronavirus now represent more than half of all infections in the...
FU GEORGE WASHINGTON. U.S. LOVES FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS
Support, , SPECIAL UKRAINE REPORT, july 5 2022, 0Today, words of America’ Revolutionary War general and first President, George Washington, are blasphemous and are never part of...