US PMIs Signal Stagflation Fears Accelerating As War Started

Russia's Tuapse Refinery Attacked 2nd Time In Days, While Battling Oil Spill Into Black Sea There's been yet another major attack on Russia's major Black Sea energy hub and port of Tuapse, after just a few days prior a drone wave had unleashed a fire so big it cold be seen from space, given the over 100-mile smoke plume that had spread over the Black Sea.  In this latest overnight Ukrainian assault reported Monday, the drone attack killed least one person and resulted in more major fires, and now emergency crews are battling their...

Cryptos Soar After SEC Issues Tokenization Order: Here's What's In It Just days after cryptocurrencies tumbled on Tuesday when the CLARITY act failed to pass the Senate, crypto is surging to close out the week after the Securities and Exchange Commission issued an "Innovation Exemption" order which cleared tokenized stocks to trade onchain. The decision sent bitcoin above $81K, but it was the tokenization-focused assets like Solana, Ether and the NEAR protocol as well DeFis, that really soared. Understandably, the tokens that ran hardest are the ones tied to trading securities onchain: Bitcoin last...

Copper Demand Surges, But Supply Deficit Is Hard To Solve, Expert Says Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, The ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom underscores a harder-to-resolve supply issue for copper, according to veteran natural resource investor Rick Rule. Speaking recently with Siyamak Khorrami, host of EpochTV’s “Market Insider,” Rule said the increasingly energy-intensive lives people around the world are living have pushed up demand for copper. With companies and countries investing heavily in AI, future demand for the red metal will be “staggering,” he said. At the same time, the...