U.S. Banks Ramping Up Purchases Adding Fuel to Credit Markets
Scott Carpenter of Bloomberg tells readers that banks are piling back into everything from mortgage debt to CLOs after two years of cutting back....
Import Prices Jump to Almost Two-Year High
Jeffry Bartash of MarketWatch reports that import prices showed the biggest increase in almost two years as Middle East disruptions added to inflation pressures....
CAUTION: Investment Extremists Can Get Wiped Out
In 1985, America was just coming off one of the worst bouts of inflation in its history. Much as today, with inflation trailing off...
Japan Enters Technical Recession
Japan's GDP shrank unexpectedly in the fourth quarter of 2023, putting the country into a technical recession. A technical recession occurs when a nation's...
Natural Gas Consumption to Triple in India by 2050
U.S. Energy Information Administration is projecting natural gas consumption to more than triple in India by 2050. They write:
In our International Energy Outlook 2023 (IEO2023), we...