European and Asian stocks, as well as S&P futures were little changed ahead of "Super Thursday's" events which include the U.K. general election, Comey's testimony and the ECB policy decision. That however may change following a Bloomberg news report that the ECB is set to cut inflation forecasts through 2019 due to weaker energy prices, suggesting the "hawkish" ECB announcement some had expected tomorrow has been postponed.
Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Elements of the charm offensive include the launch of a pro-Saudi Arabia media portal operated by high-profile Republican campaign consultants; a special English-language website devoted to putting a positive spin on the latest developments in the Yemen war; glitzy dinners with American political and business elites; and a non-stop push to sway reporters and policymakers.
Authored by Paul Driessen via The Mises Institute,
Citing U.S. Department of Energy data, the New York Times recently reported that the solar industry employs far more Americans than wind or coal: 374,000 in solar versus 100,000 in wind and 160,000 in coal mining and coal-fired power generation. Only the natural gas sector employs more people: 398,000 workers in gas production, electricity generation, home heating and petrochemicals.
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced Tuesday that he had reached “an agreement in principle” with his Mexican counterpart, Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo, on a new trade deal governing the trade of raw and refined sugar between the US and Mexico.
There’s only one problem: The US sugar industry has said it’s unable to support the agreement in its current form, according to Reuters.
Ross said that Mexico met nearly every request by the US sugar industry to fix problems with a 2014 sugar trade agreement.
It's official: there is nothing in this world that Russian hackers can't do.
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In an opportune coincidence, when discussing the Qatar crisis earlier today, we laid out the "official narrative" behind the dramatic fallout in diplomacy between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.