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ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 655.02 points or 1.59% to 41,826.34 • Shanghai increased 23.43 points or 0.65% to 3,605.73 • Hang Seng increased 129.11 points or 0.51% to 25,667.18 • ASX 200 decreased 27.80 points or -0.32% to 8,709.40 • SENSEX decreased 542.47 points […]

For hundreds of years, the two Southeast Asian neighbors, Cambodia and Thailand, have engaged in occasional military conflicts and nationalist rivalry centered on a disputed border. We’re getting reports from Thailand that an F16 bombed a Cambodian military target. This border conflict actually dates back to a map made in 1907, when Cambodia was a

China has been offloading its US Treasury holdings for years. Once the top holder of US debt, China cut its US Treasury holdings for the third consecutive month this May. Total holdings have fallen to $756.3 billion from $757.2 billion in April, according to the US Treasury, marking the lowest debt held since May 2009.

Over 8,000 bank branches are expected to close worldwide in 2025. Approximately 3,200 of those closures will take place in the United States. Q1 experienced 148 net branch closures in the US, with all major banks slated to close branches throughout the year. These are merely bank closures and not bank failures, although two smaller

Neoconservatives (neocons) are a faction within U.S. foreign policy circles who advocate for an aggressive, interventionist approach to promoting American interests and values abroad, which is the cover story, along with spreading democracy, which we do not even experience. Their hostility toward Russia stems from several key ideological and strategic motivations that date back to

Ground beef is the new egg as the media has turned its attention to a new grocery item impacted by inflation. The average price for a pound hit $6.12 in June, up 12% YoY, and the highest price recorded since the government began collecting data in the 1980s. Some news outlets blame tariffs on Brazil

The people of every Build Back Better nation have been suffering the repercussions of open border policies. Civil unrest has erupted in nearly every European nation as the people refuse to sit idle as their demographics forcibly change. A recent survey in Spain by El Mundo found that 70% of Spaniards support mass deportation. Among

Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and John Fetterman (D-PA) have introduced bipartisan legislation, the Payment Choice Act, which would require businesses to accept cash payments. Money is merely the medium of exchange that someone is willing to accept for goods or services. Businesses across America have inadvertently contributed to the push toward a cashless society by

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 44.19 points or -0.11% to 39,774.92 • Shanghai increased 22.07 points or 0.62% to 3,581.86 • Hang Seng increased 135.89 points or 0.54% to 25,130.03 • ASX 200 increased 9.00 points or 0.10% to 8,677.20 • SENSEX decreased 13.53 points

Investors continue to snap up residential properties, as real estate has evolved into an investment class of its own. New reports show that between 2020 and 2023, investors were responsible for 18.5% of home purchases. In the first three months of 2025, investors composed 27% of all residential properties, marking the highest share in half