ASIA: Business investment commitments into Singapore dropped about 31% last year, marking the first decline in five years, and after hitting a more than decade high in 2020, government data showed on Wednesday. Commitments for investments in fixed assets such as facilities, machinery, and other equipment shrank to S$11.8 billion ($8.78 billion) in 2021 but […]

QUESTION: Marty, you said Socrates projected that 2022 would be a Panic Cycle in politics. You also said that would be global and impact Canada as well. If I am not mistaken, I think 2022 was the 3 wave of your ECM in Canada. You were the first to say that COVID was organized and […]

ASIA: A prolonged slowdown in China’s economic growth could hurt some multinational companies and commodity producers for years to come, casting a shadow over the global recovery from the pandemic—but likely not derailing it entirely. Sputtering momentum in China’s economy—which accounts for about 15% of global trade and a quarter of projected global economic growth in […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, Out of my utmost respect, you do stand-alone where all these analysts are calling for the collapse of debt and equity because of fiat currency. They may claim to have been there for the dot.com and 2008 bubbles, but you have been there for all of them. The blame they lay on […]

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 35.65 points or 0.13% to 27,284.52 Shanghai increased 23.05 points or 0.67% to 3,452.63 Hang Seng decreased 250.06 points or -1.02% to 24.329.49 ASX 200 increased 75.90 points or 1.07% to 7,186.70 Kospi increased 1.41 points or 0.05% to 2,746.47 […]

ASIA: Property prices in Singapore have climbed in the past two years, and will likely keep going up despite the government’s efforts to cool the market, CNBC reported. Private residential prices could rise between 1% to 3% in 2022, according to Leonard Tay, head of research at real estate agency Knight Frank Singapore. Prices of […]

ASIA: Japan’s economy likely rebounded in the final three months of 2021 as consumption rose during a drop off in COVID-19 cases, a Reuters poll showed, though it could slide back into contraction this quarter after a spike in Omicron variant infections. The world’s third-largest economy likely grew an annualized 5.8% in October-December, rebounding from […]

ASIA: India plans to buy 1 million tonnes of potash from Belarus in the first such bilateral deal between the two countries after sanctions crippled Minsk’s ability to sell the crop nutrient, Reuters reported. India has suggested that the state-run Belarus Potash Company (BPC) could open a rupee account with a state-run Indian bank for […]

The Bank of England raised rates for a second time which is the first time they have responded in this manner to inflation since 2004 during the boom into 2007. While the Bank of England has choreographed its intent to raise rates as has the Federal Reserve, this meant that the markets were not surprised […]

ASIA: By 2030, China is forecast to become the world’s largest economy, for now it has just surpassed the EU. In a milestone moment, the economy of China surpassed the whole of the European Union (EU) for the first time. China’s GDP for 2021 expanded by 8.1 percent, according to figures released last month by […]