In this post, I share a few thoughts on what might lie ahead for us in 2025, in the light of the hidden inadequate world energy supply. I am predicting major turbulence, but not that things fall apart completely. Stock markets will tend to do poorly; interest rates will remain high; oi...
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The approval, which means pilots won’t need to be able to see the drones with their own eyes, will allow Prime Air to scale deliveries in the US, Amazon said on its website Thursday. The company will expand the area it services with ...
“The locals – banks and brokers included – don’t want to be seen lending it [Aramco stock] out to sellers right now but that will change over time, and for the moment we can do the usual Saudi short through swaps, options, and futures, which is fine to get most of the risk ...
That will allow the stock to eventually ETFs such as theVanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEArca: VWO)and theSchwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF (NYSEArca: SCHE). “Index compiler MSCI said last week Saudi Aramco would have an estimated weight of 0.16% in its emerging market index and an...
The traders said liquidity - meaning how easy it is to buy or sell a bond - is worse now in gilts than in other big government bond markets, while investors remain reluctant to take new positions on the direction of rates. The difference between the price a seller ...
Amazon claimed the “suggestions are all wrong” and, citing typically low margins in retail, said that “comparisons to technology companies with operating profit margins of closer to 50% is not rational.” The company also said that it “had a 24% effective tax rate on profits from 2010-...
The iPhone was first released in 2007, but at the dawn of the decade it was still a relatively niche product, confined to one wireless carrier and targeted at the early technology adopter. Now it's a much bigger deal — in the first calendar quarter of 2010, Apple sold 8.7 million iPhon...
Microsoft has become the second public US company to reach a $2T market value, after Apple did in August 2020 and two years after hitting its first $1T in value — - Shares of the software giant have gained 19% so far this year — Only Apple and Saudi Aramco had hit $2 trillion in...
The world we live in today is the world created in “Devil” Bill’s image. It’s a world founded on treachery, deceit, and the naïveté of a public that has never wised up to the parlor tricks that the Rockefellers and their ilk have been using to shape the world for the past...