ASIA: The Indian government has announced a new policy on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from border sharing countries. The new law came into effect after the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) notification which was released late night on April 22. This law mandated prior government approvals for FDI from India’s neighbors such as Pakistan, China, […]

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 291.49 points or 1.52% to 19,429.44 Shanghai decreased 5.48 points or -0.19% to 2,838.50 Hang Seng increased 83.96 points or 0.35% to 23,977.32 ASX 200 decreased 4.10 points or -0.08% to 5,217.10 Kospi increased 18.58 points or 0.98% to 1,914.73 SENSEX […]

  The censorship being imposed by Youtube, Facebook, and others trying to crush any resistance to being locked-down is astonishing. This documentary has been out for years. They are now reviewing anything that exposures the truth of the World Health Organization and the corruption that is systemic. We need to write to everyone in Congress […]

ASIA: Facebook will buy a 10% stake in the digital business of Reliance Industries for 5.7 billion USD, as the social media firm looks to leverage its highly popular WhatsApp chat service to offer digital payment services. The deal will help the Reliance Industries cut debt that has piled up in its expensive push to […]

ASIA: India’s market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), temporarily eased some fund-raising regulations for listed entities to give them easier and faster access to capital markets. To allow more companies to avail fast-track rights issuances, SEBI reduced the required average market capitalization of public shareholding required to 1 billion rupees from […]

Our favorite entertainer in Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC; D-NY), on Monday deleted a message after she was criticized in which she cheered her New Green Deal in the light of the historic drop in oil prices as an opportunity to invest in “green infrastructure to save our planet.” She thinks this will create new jobs […]

The United Nations’ Green CClimate Fund wrote: “The COVID-19 pandemic and the global response required to stem it shows the importance of acting together to solve unparalleled threats to people and our planet. The far-reaching impacts of COVID-19 are a stark reminder of the catastrophic implications the world faces if we don’t.” Spot crude has […]

ASIA: India has pitched for enhancing the emergency assistance of the National Development Bank to $10 billion from $1 billion. The issue was flagged by union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the annual meeting of the board of governors of the National Development Bank (NDB) via video conference on Monday. NDB has so far approved […]

  SKY News Australia has reported the smoking gun. The UN-funded financial arm of the Paris Agreement has labeled the coronavirus an “opportunity” to raise funds for climate change action and “relaunch economies on low-emission, climate-resilient trajectories”. The extraordinary statements have been published in a document by the Green Climate Fund – an international organization […]

ASIA: The total number of coronavirus cases in India has gone up to 13,387, while the death toll has risen to 437, according to the latest figures from the Health Ministry. In the past 24 hours, 1,007 fresh COVID-19 infections and 23 deaths were reported. India’s gold consumption in 2020 could fall as much as […]