The necessity for rare earth elements (REEs) has been discussed regularly in financial rags since the 1990s as China dominated rare earth mining and its industry of toxic processes to extract and smelt REEs from mined ore into usable elements. Beijing’s first attempt...
The global economy, ground transportation, and international shipping are about to experience another supply chain disruption due to renewed pandemic lockdowns across China with Shanghai being much worse than what occurred in Wuhan two years ago. The megalopolis of...
Today, China announced a levy on $60bn of U.S. goods a few hours after the POTUS imposed new tariffs on $200bn of Chinese products. The financial markets appear to be shrugging off the latest trade war posturing, but are they complacent? There is a category in the...
Despite the fact that there are — quite literally — tens of thousands of opportunities to engage in the global financial markets, the discourse is dominated by the Apples or the Intels of the investment community. That’s understandable given the...
Electronics retail giant Best Buy (NYSE : BBY) was the toast of Wall Street this past week, with its equity valuations jumping up nearly 7% on Thursday (Nov 20) by beating earnings estimates. Critical to the bullish sentiment on the street was an increase of...