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16 Jan 2024

Who's ordering Aircraft ?

Source: Win Smart

16 Jan 2024

The silent bullmarket...

Global mutual funds' active weighting of Japanese stocks has not risen in the past six months. Source: TME, Factse

16 Jan 2024

Did you know that Brazil has been leading Latin America in solar panel purchases? 🤔

Source: Markets & Mayhem

16 Jan 2024

Life below zero...

JAPAN 2-YEAR YIELD FALLS BELOW ZERO FOR FIRST TIME SINCE JULY

16 Jan 2024

IOWA REPUBLICAN CAUCUS: TRUMP MADE HISTORY BY WINNING ALL 99 COUNTIES AND WINNING BY THE LARGEST MARGIN EVER.

The Iowa caucus on January 15 launches the long designation process of the Republican and Democrat candidates to the US presidential election. On that day, only Republicans will vote (Democrats will hold their own later in 2024). While Iowa is a small state, and not very representative of the country’s population (90% of Iowa’s population is white and in past elections, the Iowa caucuses have rarely predicted what will happen in other primaries), it is seen as very important for candidates to gather positive momentum for the remaining of the campaign and the following state caucus and primaries. In the current context, the Iowa caucus may already provide a hint on whether any challenger to Trump within the Republican party has the potential to compete with the former President, or not. Rival campaigns and many political pundits had argued that if Trump failed to top 50% of the vote, he wouldn't meet expectations.

16 Jan 2024

Current market mood...

Source: Michel A.Arouet

16 Jan 2024

Google Search $GOOG continues to hold more than 91% share of search engine referrals, followed by Bing $MSFT at 3% and Yahoo at 1.2%.

Source: Beth Kindig

16 Jan 2024

44% of office loans carry outstanding loan balances higher than the property value and are at risk of default according to a paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research

Source: Barchart

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