The Current, Choppy Financial Landscape The global financial landscape is currently facing several challenges. Rising inflation, the war in Ukraine, possible US default, and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes all contribute to a volatile and uncertain market. Rising Sea of Inflation Sea waves, Rough Sea. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images Inflation is…
(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Getty Images Key takeaways War in Ukraine and U.S.-China relationship breakdown has put a new spotlight on defense stocks Defense spending in the U.S. is proposed to rise to $842 billion in light of the issues Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon are some examples of high-profile defense companies to potentially…
Moldova’s President Maia Sandu and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hold a joint … [+] press conference following their talks in Chisinau on November 10, 2022. (Photo by Bogdan TUDOR / AFP) AFP via Getty Images Moldova is on the south-western border of Ukraine and already has a territorial dispute with Russia in…
French president Emmanuel Macron speaks during an interview by French journalist and TV host … [+] Caroline Roux in front of pictures of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 12, 2022. Macron agrees that China needs to play a peace keeper role, and said Europe may have to “be independent”…
TOPSHOT – Taiwanese navy launches a US-made Standard missile from a frigate during the annual Han … [+] Kuang Drill, on the sea near the Suao navy harbor in Yilan county on July 26, 2022. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP) (Photo by SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images I had wanted…
Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul. getty Both Russian and Ukraine need to maintain exports, but Russia’s production and export volumes dwarf those of Ukraine, making Russia an inordinate beneficiary of the grain export deal’s rollover. Much ado has been made over the latest extension of the grain export deal between Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey (Turkey controls…
MYRONIVKA, UKRAINE – JULY 29: A stork flies above a wheat field as a combine harvester of TVK Seed … [+] agricultural company harvests wheat on July 29, 2022 not far from Myronivka, Ukraine. Commodity exports from Ukraine, one of the world’s largest producers of wheat, corn and vegetable-oil, have been stalled since the Russian…
TOPSHOT – Ukrainian tanks move on a road before an attack in Lugansk region on February 26, 2022. – … [+] Russia on February 26 ordered its troops to advance in Ukraine “from all directions” as the Ukrainian capital Kyiv imposed a blanket curfew and officials reported 198 civilian deaths. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov /…
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a concert marking the anniversary of the annexation … [+] of Crimea on March 18, 2022 in Moscow.(Photo by Getty Images) Getty Images A year into Russia’s war on Ukraine, we are just starting to see how cryptocurrencies may play a role. While the cryptocurrency market is simply not…
‘We Can Do It!’, a poster by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse Electric, aimed at boosting morale … [+] among the company’s workers in the war effort. The poster was displayed at Westinghouse plants for only two weeks in February 1942, but was later rediscovered and became a popular symbol of female empowerment. It was…