ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 1,298.55 points or -3.93% to 31,714.03 • Shanghai increased 41.26 points or 1.31% to 3,186.81 • Hang Seng increased 136.81 points or 0.68% to 20,264.49 • ASX 200 decreased 135.00 points or -1.80% to 7,375.00 • SENSEX decreased 379.93 points […]

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China is the world’s largest car producer and exporter. A little-known fact is that China first became the world’s largest car exporter back in 2023, with low-cost EV companies BYD and Chery in the spotlight. The nation’s auto sector has been steadily expanding since then, with Chinese brands reaching an all-time high of 69.4% of […]

President Javier Milei saved Argentina from the despair of socialism. Poverty reached a two-decade high between January and June of 2024 at 52.9% when Milei was working diligently to undo decades of poor fiscal policies. New data suggests the number of citizens under the poverty line has fallen to 38.1% Before taking office,  around 57% […]

COMMENT: The media including the financial media really going crazy with this Trump Tariff thing – as if the market wasn’t due for a pull back. DS REPLY: We had forecast that we would see a correction by April last year. I answered plenty of questions on various podcasts about whether this would be a […]

European Union leader Ursula von der Leyen has proposed a zero-for-zero-tariff deal with the United States after the EU was hit with a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum, followed by another 20% levy. The 27-nation bloc will be unable to agree on this proposal, especially since Donald Trump declared that a zero-for-zero deal is […]

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ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a green day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 1,876.00 points or 6.03% to 33,012.58 • Shanghai increased 48.97 points or 1.58% to 3,145.55 • Hang Seng increased 299.38 points or 1.51% to 20,127.68 • ASX 200 increased 166.70 points or 2.27% to 7,510.00 • SENSEX increased 1,089.18 points […]

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, you are way too modest. You are the only one who forecast this event to the very day of the low, as you have done so many times in the past. They do not know that we worked to get you here in DC at a dinner for Trump, and you cancelled, […]

  Some believe that Donald Trump is deliberately attempting to cause a sharp downturn in equities to force a flight into treasuries. If so, the Federal Reserve would have more of a reason to slash interest rates—Trump’s longstanding desire. Trump has stated that the markets are undergoing an “operation” of sorts, but I would not […]