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PRIVATE BLOG – The European Fiscal Debt Crisis Coming to a Head Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more, please visit Ask-Socrates.com. https://ask-socrates.com/
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 813.88 points or 1.20 to 68,557.73 Shanghai decreased 40.426 points or -1.00 to 3,996.162 Hang Seng increased 144.94 points or 0.60 to 24,175.12 ASX 200 increased 43.50 points or 0.50 to 8,806.00 SENSEX increased 827.57 points []
FOX Business reported that the average monthly payment for a new vehicle reached a record 770 during the first quarter of 2026, according to LendingTree’s analysis of Experian data. Lease payments climbed to 619 per month, while used vehicle payments reached 531. The average amount financed for a new vehicle rose to 43,925, and outstanding []
View this post on Instagram Europe’s housing market is not recovering, it is becoming unlivable. Eurostat reported that in Q1 2026, EU house prices rose 5.1 from Q1 2025, while rents increased 3.0. Compared with Q4 2025, house prices rose another 1.2 and rents increased 0.7. Between the 2025 average and Q1 2026, house prices []
Canada’s latest defence procurement is becoming impossible to ignore. The CBC reports that Ottawa is now looking beyond simply purchasing Saab’s GlobalEye airborne early warning aircraft. NATO itself has now selected the same Swedish system to replace its aging Boeing E-3 AWACS fleet, making GlobalEye the alliance’s future airborne surveillance platform. This is no small []
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 924.80 points or 1.38 to 67,743.85 Shanghai increased 65.708 points or 1.65 to 4,036.588 Hang Seng decreased 169.28 points or -0.70 to 24,030.18 ASX 200 decreased 22.60 points or -0.26 to 8,762.50 SENSEX increased 238.22 points []
PRIVATE BLOG – Ukraine Beware of September Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more, please visit Ask-Socrates.com. https://ask-socrates.com/
The Ukrainian currency has been a perpetual short since 1998, and nothing has changed since. The central bank tried to fix the currency in 2022 when the war began. Our models could easily forecast precisely when the war would begin, for there was a massive outflow of currency in advance. Yet, I posted that []
