The meeting of Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Moscow last week was met with predictable accusations in Western circles that Moscow was becoming “subservient” or even a “vassal” of Beijing. MEP Guy Verhofstadt, a Euro-fantasist and former prime minister of Belgium, jeered on Twitter, “Putin’s appalling legacy …
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The UK is “more and more looking like an emerging market country,” Saxo Bank Head of Macro Analysis Christopher Dembik said in a research note on Monday, CNBC reports. The analyst pointed to political instability, trade disruptions, an energy crisis, and skyrocketing inflation as major indicators behind this. “What Brexit …
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Last year, at this time, Covid-19 cases fell significantly without any substantial measures, as everything opened up for the summer and the powers-that-be in some countries allowed life to return to normal for a few months, all in the absence of vaccination. This year, exactly the same phenomenon observed in …
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In a note released earlier this week and cited by CNBC, a team of Goldman strategists said that Russia’s national currency closely follows the South African rand and the Mexican peso in the list of most attractive among “high cyclical beta, high carry longs.” The former reflects a currency’s sensitivity …
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Discovered star zombie has puzzled scientists. Astronomers have found a star zombie, five times survived the transformation into a supernova. This star – space equivalent of a character from a horror movie about zombies, because she did not want to die completely. According to scientists, normally, when stars become supernova, …
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