Growing Anger in Lebanon as Israel Continues Strikes, Attacks on Civilians After Talks

The pattern of media reports – based on White House leaks – that an agreement with Iran is almost completed has become predictable. Where once the markets fluctuated wildly (and some insiders made huge profits with the information), each time we hear that the deal is almost complete only to see it fall through, the […]

JPMorgan Limits Lending To Private Credit Groups After Marking Down Loan Collateral The barrage of negative private credit news, now that the $1.8 trillion bubble has burst, is coming hot and heavy.  Following last night's report that Cliffwater, a private credit interval fund which according to Rubric Capital "is the canary in the coal mine and will be the first domino in the bank run” was the latest fund to be hit with 7% in investor redemptions (and unlike BlackRock, interval funds can not gate investors), this morning the FT reported that JPMorgan...

Oil Price Shock Drives 140% Surge In China's EV Exports To Record High By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com, Chinese electric vehicle exports soared by 140% to a record high in March as the fuel price shock drove consumers back to EVs. BYD electric vehicles bound for export in China.Source: AFP/Getty Images China exported as many as 349,000 electric vehicles last month, a record high number of any month ever, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association cited by Bloomberg. Drivers in Asia Pacific, Europe, and the United States started searching for EVs...