After Iran essentially closed off the Red Sea and with it the Suez Canal through its proxy, the Houthis rebels, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has now threatened to shut down traffic in another large body of water.…
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Recently, I wrote an article reviewing the VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF (REMX). While rising geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China could benefit rare earth prices, I noted that the REMX ETF was overly concentrated on lithium mi…

While the firm’s creditors are mostly wealthy individuals rather than financial institutions — limiting the direct impact on the financial system — the collapse exposes potential cracks in the $US2.9 trillion trust sector.…
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Xumo & Euro Nets Cling To ‘Silverback’
Streaming service Xumo and a trio of European public broadcasters – ORF in Austria, UR in Sweden, and YLE in Finland – have bought the upcoming feature doc Silverback from Off the Fence.…
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Xumo & Euro Nets Cling To ‘Silverback’
Streaming service Xumo and a trio of European public broadcasters – ORF in Austria, UR in Sweden, and YLE in Finland – have bought the upcoming feature doc Silverback from Off the Fence.…
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There is considerable debate over where R-Star (the “neutral” real interest rate) is today in practically every country in the aftermath of the pandemic and all the policy responses and economic distortions that followed suit.…
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1 of 4 | Chinese dancers dressed in colorful costumes perform for a crowd at an international fashion mall during the National Day holiday in Beijing on October 7, 2020. File Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI | License Photo
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What else can I say about Alibaba (NYSE:BABA)? It's been one of my worst-performing holdings. Over the past several years, the China growth story didn't play out how I thought it would as geopol…

China’s oil trade with Iran has stalled as Tehran withholds shipments and demands higher prices from its top client, tightening cheap supply for the world’s biggest crude importer, refinery and trade sources said.…
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More than 40 years after they were convicted of murder, Robert Mailman, 76, and Walter Gillespie, 80, walked out of a Saint John courthouse Thursday acquitted of a killing they had always insisted they never committed.…
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An alliance of ethnic armed groups in northeastern Myanmar has reportedly achieved one of the main goals it set when it launched an offensive last October by taking control of Laukkaing, a key city on the border with China, according to local residents…

An article by Philip Zelikow in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, titled “The Atrophy of American Statecraft,” argues that the U.S. is having a hard time dealing with all the problems in the world because our government no longer has “the breadth or…

A flurry of data should give markets a clearer sense of how fast inflation is falling globally, as turmoil in the Red Sea and oil price gains renews angst over price pressures.…
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Residents throw furniture out the window of a destroyed building following a Russian missile attack in central Kyiv. Photograph: ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images
Russia recently used short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) sourced from North Korea…

Shares in Jameson owner Pernod Ricard fell sharply after the Chinese probe was announced. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg
China is launching an anti-dumping investigation into liquor products like brandy from the European Union, its Ministry of Com…

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Evaluating the Recent Stock Market Sell-Off
The recent stock market sell-off in early January has made some investors nervous about whether the bull market can continue in 2024.…
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I have covered ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. (NYSE:ZIM) previously, so investors should view this as an update to my earlier articles on the company.
In a surprise twist of fate, Israel-based liner company ZIM Integrated Shi…

The upcoming DGP/IGP Conference in 2024 will allocate significant time to two key topics — cyber threats and security and the three transformative acts that will reshape the Indian justice system.…
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The upcoming DGP/IGP Conference in 2024 will allocate significant time to two key topics — cyber threats and security and the three transformative acts that will reshape the Indian justice system.…
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“The big thing with recruitment is the navy is not doing things people join the navy to do,” said Strategic Analysis Australia director Michael Shoebridge, a former Defence Department official.
“We’ve got sailors in pictures doing debris clean-up after…

If the past few years have taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected. Nevertheless it seems reasonable to predict that certain familiar themes will dominate the international financial picture in 2024.…
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