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September S&P 500 futures (ESU23) are up +0.13%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU23) are up +0.16% this morning after three major U.S. benchmark indices ended the regular session mixed as investors weighed Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s hawkish signals, while bracing for another round of economic data.

Central bank chiefs kept up their hawkish language as they appeared today on a policy panel at the ECB’s policy retreat in Sintra, Portugal. Fed Chair Powell said he won’t take two consecutive rate hikes off the table “at all.” Powell also said, “Policy hasn’t been restrictive for very long....

In this post-Covid era, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Thailand has been on the rise, with FDI inflows and applications for investment promotions increasing 36% from the previous year (approximately $13 billion). Accordingly, Thailand's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to increase from 2.6% in 2022, to a projected high…

For the past few decades, many countries have been working towards providing "healthcare for all", including equity in access to healthcare and healthcare financing.

At a drinks event before President Macron’s recent climate summit in Paris, the new Barbadian High Commissioner to London told me a startling fact: his country’s entire GDP could be wiped out by a single hurricane in just four hours.

In his address at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin on Tuesday, Chinese Premier Li Qiang dismissed the notion put forth by the United States and the European Union of decreasing dependence on China's economy as a "misguided proposition". Furthermore, he reassured attendees that despite mounting concerns about the vigor…

Party has its work cut out to raise investment, economic growth and wages while lowering debt and unemployment.

This upcoming week looks relatively quiet, which is probably a good thing with another earnings season kicking off at the beginning of July. Here are 5 things to watch this week in the market:

What you need to know… The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) Friday fell by -0.77%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) fell by -0.65%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) fell by -1.00%. U.S. stocks were undercut by Friday’s weak U.S. and...

What you need to know… The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.61%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.45%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -1.11%. U.S. stocks are being undercut by today’s weak U.S....

The inexorable march of debt may well be the most important economic factor in our lifetime.