Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday March 27 that are worth another look.European flat steel producers have reduced output, and some of them have stopped operating certain equipment, in their attempts to balance supply and demand after multiple automotive producers suspended their operations because of the Covid-19 pandemic.The Zambian government will remove the 5% im...Read More

There were 63,159 new confirmed cases of the virus yesterday, taking the global tally to 634,835 people, according to the World Health Organisation.The number of deaths increased by 3,464 to 29,957.The oil price has tumbled towards US$20 per barrel while gold is worth about US$1,630 an ounce on the spot market."In China, workers are returning to factories just to be told about delayed or cancelled...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday March 27 that are worth another look.European flat steel producers have reduced output, and some of them have stopped operating certain equipment, in their attempts to balance supply and demand after multiple automotive producers suspended their operations because of the Covid-19 pandemic.The Zambian government will remove the 5% im...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday March 27 that are worth another look.European flat steel producers have reduced output, and some of them have stopped operating certain equipment, in their attempts to balance supply and demand after multiple automotive producers suspended their operations because of the Covid-19 pandemic.The Zambian government will remove the 5% im...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday March 27 that are worth another look.European flat steel producers have reduced output, and some of them have stopped operating certain equipment, in their attempts to balance supply and demand after multiple automotive producers suspended their operations because of the Covid-19 pandemic.The Zambian government will remove the 5% im...Read More

In our latest Insights, we update where we stand with respect to peak insider buying, an event that can coincide near stock market lows. Meanwhile, we note one area of the market that may have put in a V-shaped recovery.In our clip of the week we look at a way to help narrow down opportunity, and our insider of the week will likely have a bigger impact on our mutual well-being than any CEO or pol...Read More

The world suddenly finds itself tipped into the gravest crisis since the 2nd World War, and with respect to the global economy it is actually far worse, because the financial system was teetering on the verge of collapse even before the coronavirus epidemic surfaced as a result of the exponential growth of debt and derivatives - so the virus epidemic and the reaction to it has simply acted as a...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday March 27 that are worth another look.European flat steel producers have reduced output, and some of them have stopped operating certain equipment, in their attempts to balance supply and demand after multiple automotive producers suspended their operations because of the Covid-19 pandemic.The Zambian government will remove the 5% im...Read More

To Watch Update #59, CLICK HEREThe world has been fighting covid-19 long enough that we are beginning to arrive at some constructive conclusions. Part of the intense infectiousness of this virus is due to its long asymptomatic phase, where hosts feel fine but are shedding contagious particles. Increased testing is now showing that the majority of folks testing positive don't realize they're sick....Read More

Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manager and COO of a large Ford dealership and its subsidiaries. Read More

"Currency wars, trade wars, Greatest Depression, World War 3."Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbe...Read More

An invigorating discussion of current circumstances with Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England and author of Radical Uncertainty.James "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. He is the author , most recently, of The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself. Gran...Read More

The recently signed $2 trillion in fiscal stimulus includes a little known provision for the country's largest real estate investors.Continue...Read More

The media is determined to use this virus to try to defeat Trump in November. CNN reported that Trump "is dodging responsibility" for the coronavirus. They continue to push him to lock down the Continue...Read More

So, meet your new Fed chairman, Donald J. Trump. In 2008 when something similar was done, it was on a smaller scale. Since few understood it, the Bush and Obama administrations ceded total control Continue...Read More

Yes, the Coronavirus will inflict pain in the short term. But in the long term, it will propel the United States to historical greatness.Continue...Read More

At the very least, we're heading into a severe recession. And we could well be heading for a full-scale depression.That's not being alarmist.Continue...Read More

No longer confined to just major cities, the coronavirus pandemic is now throughout the United States, with some small rural counties leading the country in per capita confirmed cases Continue...Read More

"At this time, the trajectory of Detroit is unfortunately even more steep than that of New York." "This is off the charts." Continue...Read More

We have a serious problem in New York, we have a serious problem in New Orleans and we're going to be developing serious problems in other areas.Continue...Read More