Oil Price Shock Drives 140% Surge In China's EV Exports To Record High

Services Sector Contraction In March Screams Q1 Stagflation Following S&P Global's Manufacturing PMI's better than expected print higher (signaling resilience in the face of March's war in Iran), the data released this morning showed the US Services Sector experienced a contraction of activity at the end of the first quarter of 2026. The headline S&P Global US Services PMI Business Activity Index recorded 49.8 in March, down from February’s 51.7 and lower than the earlier ‘flash’ estimate of 51.1. It was the first decline recorded in over three years amid the weakest...

LVMH Posts Biggest Quarterly Drop Since Dot-Com; UBS Sees Luxury Opportunity LVMH, the owner of Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Fendi, Bvlgari, Moët & Chandon, and dozens of other luxury brands, just posted its worst quarter since the dot-com bust era, making it the worst-performing European luxury stock this year as demand for luxury handbags, shoes, watches, perfumes, and wines continues to soften amid an intensifying Middle East conflict. LVMH shares in Paris tumbled 28% in the first quarter, exceeding quarterly declines seen during Covid and the 2008 financial crisis,...

President Donald Trump attempted to justify his aggressive war against Iran by claiming that his negotiators said that Tehran was preparing to attack.  The situation was very quickly approaching the point of no return, and the  US found it intolerable,” the President said on Monday. In my opinion, based on what Steve [Witkoff] and Jared […]