ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 240.10 points or -0.73% to 32,686.25 Shanghai decreased 9.77 points or -0.33% to 2,958.99 Hang Seng increased 173.44 points or 1.07% to 16,402.19 ASX 200 increased 120.10 points or 1.65% to 7,377.90 Kospi increased 33.52 points or 1.34% to 2,544.18 […]

Some have asked if there wasn’t also a lot of fraud behind the collapse of S&Ls. Many allegations were that they squandered money buying expensive art, etc. They did not tell the public that the art more than doubled in value. Take the prosecution of the poster boy Charles Keating (1923– 2014). A Federal judge […]

Whenever those in Congress mess with real estate, they have ALWAYS, and without exception, caused a major crash. The Entire Savings & Loan (S&L) Crisis was a catastrophic disaster that wiped out nearly one-third of all the 3,234 savings and loan associations in the United States between 1986 and 1995. I previously mentioned that hedge […]

ASIA: In November, foreign investors significantly increased their bond purchases in key Asian markets due to a notable decline in U.S. Treasury yields and a shift in expectations for potential Federal Reserve rate cuts. They made their largest monthly net purchase since May, buying a total of $6.36 billion in South Korean, Indian, Malaysian, Indonesian, […]

  ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 51.90 points or 0.16% to 32,843.70 Shanghai increased 12.00 points or 0.40% to 3,003.44 Hang Seng increased 173.01 points or 1.07% to 16,374.50 ASX 200 increased 36.30 points or 0.50% to 7,235.30 Kospi increased 9.91 points or 0.39% to […]

ASIA:   Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the outlook for eight Chinese banks, including major institutions like Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, and China Construction Bank Corporation. This decision followed a similar downgrade of China’s government credit ratings. Additionally, Moody’s lowered Hong Kong’s outlook to negative due […]

The golden rule of government is that whenever something new emerges – regulate it even when you do not understand what you are doing. While the details are not yet set, the EU wants to be the first to regulate AI. This new legislation requires foundation models such as ChatGPT and general-purpose AI systems (GPAI) […]

ASIA:   In November, China’s new loans are anticipated to have significantly increased compared to the previous month, surpassing the amount from the same period last year. According to a Reuters poll of 19 economists, Chinese banks are estimated to have issued 1.3 trillion yuan ($181.72 billion) in net new yuan loans, a notable rise […]

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had negative day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 587.59 points or -1.76% to 32,858.31 Shanghai decreased 2.73 points or -0.09% to 2,966.21 Hang Seng decreased 117.37 points or -0.71% to 16,345.89 ASX 200 decreased 5.10 points or -0.07% to 7,173.30 Kospi decreased 3.31 points or -0.13% to 2,492.07 SENSEX […]

    ASIA: November, core inflation in Tokyo, Japan’s capital, slowed down, aligning with the central bank’s expectation that cost-push pressures in the country will gradually ease. Service prices, a focus for the central bank in assessing wage-driven inflation, experienced their fastest increase since 1994, primarily attributed to a spike in hotel fees due to […]