ASIA:The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today:• NIKKEI 225 increased 251.45 points or 0.94% to 26,911.20• Shanghai decreased 7.72 points or -0.25% to 3,085.98• Hang Seng increased 41.76 points or 0.20% to 20,644.28• ASX 200 increased 70.20 points or 0.99% to 7,182.70• Kospi increased 5.54 points or 0.21% to 2,625.98• […]

ASIA: The 2022 Asian Para Games that were scheduled to take place in the Chinese city of Hangzhou have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) and the Games’ organizing committee (HAPGOC) said on Tuesday. A taskforce formed by the two committees and the Chinese Paralympic Committee will work on […]

ASIA: India’s wheat export ban has trapped some 1.8 million tonnes of grain at ports, leaving traders facing heavy losses from the prospect of selling onto a weaker domestic market. India banned wheat exports on Saturday, just days after saying it was targeting record shipments of 10 million tonnes this year, as a scorching heatwave […]

ASIA: Sri Lanka’s main opposition party joined anti-government protesters on Friday in rejecting the appointment of a new prime minister and insisted the president resign to take responsibility for the country’s disastrous economic crisis. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed five-time prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to his sixth term. Protesters said the appointment of Wickremesinghe will do […]

  ASIA: China may have to issue more debt as it tries to keep growing in the face of Covid lockdowns that are stunting its economy. The country has signaled in recent weeks that it still wants to meet its growth target of 5.5% this year. China’s Politburo meeting on April 29 sent a “strong […]

ASIA: China’s consumer and producer prices rose more than expected in April, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics released Wednesday. The consumer price index rose by 2.1% last month from a year ago, boosted by a surge in energy and fresh vegetable costs. The reading topped expectations for a 1.8% rise forecast […]

Numerous Al-Qaeda members were living in the United States before the 9/11 tragedy — the worst disaster on US soil. None of the 19 terrorists were from Afghanistan, but since the group operated in Afghanistan, America invaded. Domestic branches of the terrorist organization continued to operate in the US, but that is not who we […]

ASIA: India has asked its central bank to either buy back government bonds or conduct open market operations to cool yields that have hit their highest since 2019, as inflation risks push foreign investors to sell, a government source told Reuters on Monday. The 10-year benchmark bond ended at 93.69 rupees on Monday, yielding 7.46%, […]

COMMENT FROM GERMANY: Oil and flour shelves are empty. N REPLY: I really do not know if the braindead politicians actually understanding what they have done with their COVID restrictions, and then whispering to Zelensky “please sacrifice your own people to create a diversion for the collapse in the economy” so they can blame Putin. […]

ASIA: Japan’s services sector activity expanded for the first time in four months in April, as consumer sentiment recovered after the government lifted coronavirus curbs following a decline in domestic Omicron infections. The final au Jibun Bank Japan Services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to a seasonally adjusted 50.7 from the previous month’s final of […]