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UK To Dump 700 Kilos Of Nuclear Waste In United States

The UK will ship 700 kilograms of nuclear waste in the United States under a new deal signed by Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday.  An anonymous government source confirmed that the Prime Minister agreed the deal at a nuclear security summit in Washington and will mark the largest ever shipment of highly enriched uranium in history. In return the U.S. will send Europe another type of nuclear waste that can be used to produce medical isotopes for cancer treatments.

For Canada's Banks This Is "The Next Shoe To Drop", And Why It Will Drop This Spring

For Canada's Banks This Is "The Next Shoe To Drop", And Why It Will Drop This Spring

Roughly around the time the market troughed in early February, we asked "After The European Bank Bloodbath, Is Canada Next?" The reason for this question was simple: we said that "when compared to US banks' (artificially low) reserves for oil and gas exposure, Canadian banks are...not."

 

Stated otherwise, we warned that the biggest threat facing Canada's banking sector is how woefully underreserved it is to future oil and gas loan losses.

Goldman Admits It Was Wrong About The "Yellen Call": Offers Test To Check If It Is Finally Right

Back in November, when it was laying out its (five out of six wrong) Top Trades and predictions for 2016, Goldman strategists forecast that because the "US will be the first to grow GDP demand above potential" the stock market party would be over and that the "Bernanke Put" would be replaced with the "Yellen Call."

Specifically, this is what Goldman predicted:

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