African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced a donation of US$1.1 million to the governments of Jamaica and Haiti to support their recovery efforts following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa in October.
Hurricane…
I have harped upon the symbolic picture of the new macro since 2022. That was the year that the trend in long-term Treasury bond yields was broken in a fierce rebellion by a bond market that had enough of the previous decades of monetary…
Do you ever catch yourself refreshing your charts every 10 seconds… replaying a losing trade in your head… or stressing about what the Fed might say tomorrow? You are not alone. But you are also not helping yourself.
After coaching and…
Specialist rape and sexual offence investigation teams will be introduced to every police force in England and Wales by 2029, the government has pledged.It is part of a long-delayed plan aimed at halving violence against women and girls…
Two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter have been killed in Syria in an ambush by an Islamic State (IS) gunman, the US Central Command has said.Officials said three other service members were injured in the attack, during which the…
Maddie Molloy,Climate & Science reporterandStav Danaos,BBC WeatherGetty ImagesThe Geminid meteor shower - one of the most spectacular in the celestial calendar - is set to peak this weekend and astronomers say conditions could make!-->!-->…
A recent article by Simon White, via Bloomberg, discussed the rising cost of margin debt for investors. While his analysis below compares the cost of debt to , we will also consider a more critical comparison to disposable personal…
This WeekOnce again, markets were focused on the Federal Reserve and artificial intelligence (AI) investment this week.For the Fed, they remain more concerned about the weak labor market than above-target inflation. Given…
Today, the United States and the Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on global health cooperation that includes strategic investments to strengthen…
This week was all about the Federal Open Market Committee () statement on Wednesday, when the Fed cut key 0.25% for the third time this year. The Fed lowered its forecast for 2026 to an annual pace of 2.4%, down from 2.6% previously…