Two months we first suggested that OPEC may be fabricating data about its production cuts - and certainly overstating the "success" of its Vienna production cut deal - by looking at the rising Chinese oil imports, and by extension, rising oil deliveries by OPEC nations.
According to the Digital Market Outlook (DMO) by Statista, the country with the largest share of adults paying for a dating service is the United States.
You will find more statistics at Statista
As Statista's Martin Armstrong details, at 26.4 percent, over a quarter of Americans are spending their money on trying to find love (or a sexual encounter).
Authored by Teeka Tiwari via InternationalMan.com,
Recently, I wrote about a small $100,000 trade of cheese and butter.
Why?
This one trade changed 400 years of history in just four hours.
How so? Normally, it would take 10 days to handle the paperwork. But this trade concluded in less than four hours.
The solution: a blockchain platform that streamlined the entire process.
While the trade was small, it was big for the $7 trillion trade finance industry.
Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.com
An article in February on BullionStar’s website titled “A Chink of Light into London’s Gold Vaults?” discussed an upcoming development in the London Gold Market, namely that both the Bank of England (BoE) and the commercial gold vault providers in London planned to begin publishing regular data on the quantity of physical gold actually stored in their gold vaults.
After what has been the slowest of slow-motion train wrecks, Puerto Rico’s federal overseers have finally taken the inevitable first step toward considering the use of bankruptcy-ish proceedings, known as Title III, to allow the island to escape it's $70 billion debt burden.