ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 16.89 points or 0.03% to 53,375.60 • Shanghai increased 6.747 points or 0.16% to 4,157.985 • Hang Seng increased 141.18 points or 0.51% to 27,968.09 • ASX 200 decreased 6.40 points or -0.07% to 8,927.50 • SENSEX increased 221.69 points or […]
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We are witnessing an unmistakable shift in the US housing market, not a bubble pop like 2008, but a market regime change characterized by buyers retreating as inventory rises and affordability remains strained. Recent data from Redfin shows that roughly 40,000 US home-purchase agreements were canceled in December, representing about 16.3% of homes that went
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Jerome Powell came out to defend the integrity and sovereignty of the Federal Reserve. “The point of independence is not to protect policymakers or anything like that. It is just that every advanced economy and democracy in the world has come around to this common practice. It’s just an institutional arrangement that has served the
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Microsoft provided the FBI with Bitlocker encryption keys. It should come as no surprise that a US-based cloud storage service provided US intelligence with backdoor access. Encryption is only as strong as the one who controls the key to lock it. Microsoft, the world’s dominant provider of desktop and enterprise systems, complied with an FBI
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ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 25.17 points or 0.05% to 53,358.71 • Shanghai increased 11.334 points or 0.27% to 4,151.238 • Hang Seng increased 699.96 points or 2.58% to 27,826.91 • ASX 200 decreased 7.70 points or -0.09% to 8,933.90 • SENSEX increased 487.20 points or
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Deemed the “mother of all deals” by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, India and the European Union signed a historic trade agreement that will permit near free trade between the two economies. The EU plans to phase out tariffs on Indian goods by up to 95% over a multi-year period. India will begin phasing
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Criminals are operating in increasingly sophisticated ways, but some forces are fighting crime in a digital age with analogue methods. We will launch https://t.co/kDcAf3UrlD – investing a record £115 million in AI and automation to make policing more effective. pic.twitter.com/RucIqbqXMF — Shabana Mahmood MP (@ShabanaMahmood) January 26, 2026 UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced the
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US consumer confidence has plunged to its lowest level since 2014. The Conference Board’s index fell sharply in January to 84.5 — well below expectations and even below the depths reached during the pandemic panic. Consumer confidence is a quantifiable measure of the public’s willingness to engage in economic activity. When confidence drops, consumers tighten
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The idea that Europe always tries to conquer Russia is a common historical fact. To be accurate, there have been several major conflicts initiated by European powers against Russia, driven by specific geopolitical, ideological, and strategic reasons. It’s not a constant effort by a monolithic “Europe,” but rather a series of distinct invasions from different
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