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  • Writer's pictureStéphan

Japan in 'recession', BoJ will dial back hawks #USDJPY up next ? / NatGas 25y lows / Druck & Buffet moves



  • SpaceX blasts private firm's lunar lander into orbit, few tense days now ! ahead of touch down on 22nd Feb

  • Stronger 0.4%MoM core CPI is not an aberration. The US economy has entered a new regime where inflation is on a higher plateau (normalization), leading FOMC to keep rates 'high for longer'

  • Druckenmiller dumped shares of Alphabet, Amazon and Broadcom while scooping up shares of beaten-down gold miners Barrick Gold and Newmont, Berkshire sheds some holdings, mum on new investment

  • UK & Japan ''recession'' alarms, as NIKKEI hits near all time highs (only 'just' short of the1989 highs at moment)

  • Forecasters who translate the CPI into the PCE are currently tracking January core PCE to rise 0.3%, which would lower the 12-month rate to 2.7% But these figures are preliminary and could change after the PPI is released on Friday

  • NatGas prices hitting 3year lows, not too far off 25y lows (good news!)

  • Train review: What it’s like to ride the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express

  • New Zealand central bank governor Adrian Orr has issued a warning about crypto currencies such as stablecoins, saying they are no substitute for fiat money

  • Markets : Equity markets didn't stay down for long at all ! soonest it got quiet yesterday, VIX went straight back down, and markets came back gradually.. BONDS - flatter, coming back fairly easily too


 




UK economy fell into recession at the end of 2023 (msn.com) 0.1 here and there will not make much of a difference to most folks but there you go

BoJ will send the hawks from time to time but will simply do nothing then...









and

OSINTdefender on X: "On February 9th, the Cosmos-2575 Mission was launched by Roskosmos using a Soyuz-2 Rocket carrying an “Unknown Payload into Space for the Russian Ministry of Defense.” https://t.co/Ppdsogf8Y7" / X (twitter.com) OSINTdefender - The National Security Threat reportedly involves the Russian Military attempting the Deployment of Nuclear Weapons into Space for use against Satellites.







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