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 […]

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 […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I am a new reader. I was wondering if you agree with Trump that the stock market will make new highs. Thank you for your time JA ANSWER: The market will make new highs, just not this instant. However, it will not make new highs because the economy will be strong. It […]

  Bill Gates to me is highly inconsistent. He is a huge supporter of Climate Change and has done his TED Talks on lowering CO2 to Zero. Of course, the Climate Change contingent is all about reducing the population which is now about 7.5 billion and Gates laments it will hit 9 billion. So for […]

COMMENT: Marty; you are right. William Kristol is a very dangerous neocon who is only intent on wasting American lives to defend Israel in the Middle East. He has become not conservative but ruthlessly a warmonger. He put out an open letter against Trump because he wanted to pull troops out of the Middle East. […]

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 […]

The New York Times and others are out in full force to defend Bill Gates, their savior of the world. They distort everything and try to pretend he is this wonderful man who only has our best interests at heart. They also refuse to address how the World Health Organization has carried out the greatest […]

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the more socialistic the country, the greater the demand for us to be tracked. Australia is telling its people if you want to end the lockdown, then you must be tracked. This virus is by no means so dangerous to warrant such a complete breakdown of all our liberty. […]