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Europe grapples with its decline Americans consumed by their country’s election cycle may be struck by the mood across the pond. In the apocalyptic rhetoric of Republicans, the American economy is the proverbial sick man of the West, hampered by rampant inflation, battered by tides of plundering illegal migrants and doomed by the leftist schemes …
Boeing announced sweeping cost cuts including a hiring freeze and a pause on nonessential staff travel to preserve cash as it deals with a strike of more than 30,000 factory workers.. Boeing factory workers, mostly in the Seattle area, started walking off the job early Friday after overwhelmingly rejecting a tentative labor deal and to …
Starting off 2024 with: – Record U.S. debt – Record U.S. debt interest payments – Expected record U.S. Treasury issuances in 2024 – Record speculative-grade debt maturing over the next 5 years – Moody’s downgrades U.S. to "negative" from "stable" – Interest rates near… pic.twitter.com/idv0E9kdgW — Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) January 2, 2024 And if …
German Real Estate companies hit highest number of insolvencies in 7 years pic.twitter.com/X3lY2JaMTm — Barchart (@Barchart) October 5, 2023 https://twitter.com/theGangesPost/status/1709820529035911621 Good Morning from #Germany, where the construction sector is really crashing. The German PMI Construction Index fell to 39.3 in Sep from 41.5 in Aug, and the lowest level since statistics began. pic.twitter.com/TBvdTPKJpM — Holger …
In the meantime: The Fed continues to pretend that it can shrink its balance sheet size and watch the cost of government debt rise, all while the US grapples with a 12% twin deficit. After marking the end of a 40-year bull market in Treasuries, this upward move in 10-year… pic.twitter.com/DovYOOrn1a — Otavio (Tavi) Costa …