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By Irina Slav Aramco is considering staggering payments for the 70 percent in chemicals conglomerate Sabic that it said it would acquire last year. Bloomberg reports that the options the oil major … Read more
by Jeff Marcus The federal government is doing everything it can do to deal with an unprecedented and frightening period in the nation’s history. It has rolled out programs that will … Read more
Bloomberg News with some distressing news: U.S. homeowners seeking to delay mortgage payments topped 3.4 million, up 17% from a week earlier, according to Black Knight. About 6.4% of mortgage … Read more
NEW YORK — Small business owners hoping for quick help from the government’s emergency $349 billion lending program were still waiting Tuesday amid reports of computer problems at the Small … Read more
Forbearance requests grew by 1,270% between the week of March 2 and the week of March 16. They jumped another 1,896% between the week of March 16 and the week … Read more
People think it is going to end soon.. Italian govt is thinking to delay the end of the lockdown to July t.co/TnB0KJIHh2 — A.Urban (@AlessioUrban) March 24, 2020 Hong Kong … Read more
Boeing has identified a new software flaw in the grounded 737 Max that will require additional work, possibly further delaying the plane’s return to service. The company alerted the U.S. … Read more
by sundance A curiously interesting development in the DOJ case against Michael Flynn. Judge Emmet Sullivan is weighing the merits of the Flynn defense Motion to Compel (MTC), which requests a … Read more
UK food prices are expected to rise in the new year… The latest floods in northern England have decimated crops, winter vegetables such as potatoes, cauliflowers and cabbages as … Read more
Boris Johnson to sabotage EU if forced to delay Brexit. Boris Johnson would veto the EU’s seven-year budget and send a Eurosceptic commissioner to Brussels to “disrupt” the bloc’s workings … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Prime Minister Borris Johnson had wanted an election on October 15, but Labour and other opposition MPs would not back the move while the option of a … Read more
by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan According to Peter Schiff, the chief global strategist at Euro Pacific Capital, it was a “huge mistake” for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates last month. Schiff … Read more
The bakery-owning family that won a $32.5 million defamation suit against Oberlin College is accusing the famously left-wing school of trying to string the case along until an owner dies … Read more
Large June rise in private sector liquidity may reduce odds or delay necessary US #QE4. Not the backdrop for a weak USD. And China’s #PBoC already easing again. World economy … Read more
By LV The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has delayed issuing a report on its interminable probe into FBI surveillance abuse. See https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reluctant-witnesses-in-fisa-abuse-probe-agree-to-talk-to-doj-inspector-general. Unfortunately, we cannot … Read more
G20 recap: China got what it wanted (delay). Trump got what he wanted (pump stocks). Huawei got a slight reprieve (face saving). Nothing fundamental changed. Forecast: More of the same … Read more