Thanks to what investors have interpreted as the pivot of the Fed, markets have rebounded strongly since last Wednesday, when the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve once again raised rates by 75 basis points. Jerome Powell indicated that the next hikes would be made according to the coming economic data, that inflation remained … Read more
(Boursier.com) — Wall Street, closed yesterday for Presidents’ Day, also known as ‘Washington’s Birthday’, held up well at the start of trading on Tuesday, despite particularly tense geopolitical news. The DJIA lost 0.64% to 33,862 pts, while the S&P 500 was down 0.27% to 4,337 pts. The Nasdaq returns 0.2% to 13,522 pts. The United … Read more
The year that begins will be presided over by two events: the evolution of the pandemic, hopefully towards its end, and the consolidation of a progressively conflictive multipolar world that succeeds the bipolar that opened after World War II. At the back of the stage, the geopolitical dilemma that Russia and China define in their … Read more
The hijackers who carried out the 9/11 attacks, like all radical jihadist groups in the Middle East, spoke to the United States in the murderous language they taught them. Source: Consortium News, Chris Hedges Translated by the readers of the site Les-Crises Original illustration by M. Fish. I was in Times Square, New York, shortly … Read more