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Business Financial Distress Nears COVID Levels As Sole Trader Numbers Rise Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The volume of businesses struggling to pay their debts in Australia is on track to exceed the heights set during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to two reports on the nation’s economic health. Australian dollar coins and banknotes in Melbourne, Australia on April 4, 2024. AAP Image/Joel Carrett Up to 13 percent of working-age Australians and 47 percent of secondary school students want to work for themselves or start a business, but that’s...

Trump Admin Strikes Deal With Energy Firm To Nix Offshore Wind Plans Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, A global energy corporation based in France has ceded leases off North Carolina and New York where it planned to spend nearly $1 billion to build offshore wind turbines back to the U.S. Department of Interior and will instead redirect that investment into natural gas projects in Texas. The “landmark agreement” was jointly announced by the department and TotalEnergies in Washington on March 23, and confirmed by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and...

"Door Of Doom" Looms As 30 Year Yield Soars To 19 Year High After Two Huge Treasury Block Sales Bond yields continued to move sharply higher today, driven in large part by the aggressive repricing in the oil strip as markets (finally) price in a lengthy disruption to Hormuz traffic which has pushed year-end prices higher by about $12 in the past month. The result has been a spike across virtually all tenors: *US 2-YEAR YIELD RISES TO 4.11%, HIGHEST SINCE FEBRUARY 2025 *TREASURY 5- AND 7-YEAR YIELDS RISE 10 BASIS POINTS ON...