Over a weekend in early May, there was a de-escalation with China in the form of a 90-day tariff reduction. That catalyst has returned stocks to positive territory for the year, And for the best May performance since 1990. But, over the past several days, both the U.S. and China have accused each other of violating the trade deal.

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The Fed continued Decisively to hold rates up (135 basis points above the neutral rate), despite inflation falling back to just a Tenth of a Percentage Point from its Target. And on $36 trillion national debt, every percentage point, in excess of the interest rate necessary to keep prices stable and employment full, is unecessarily costing the country hundreds of billions of dollars in interest (this year!).

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The other part of the dual mandate, which the Fed says "stands on equal footing with price stability" and maximum employment. We'll get the most recent employment data later this week. The last reading of the unemployment rate was 4.2%. What's considered maximum employment? It turns out, a Fed Governor (Mr.Kugler) gave a speech of "Assessing Maximum Employment" last month. What was her assessment? For the current situation, she said maximum employment is "in the vicinity of 4.2%."

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Stock Trading the Manner of same levels since its January earnings event. it initially returns to these levels after a 35 percent Drawdown, which took almost three months to recover. Which have become the pattern of the past few earnings events. The February Earnings Event came with a big one - an 11% decline.

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Hussmann has partnered with Refra to provide exclusive supply of natural refrigeration systems in Australia. Hussmann, a Panasonic company, has announced a strategic partnership with Refra for the exclusive supply of the latter’s refrigeration systems in the Australian market. The companies say the collaboration will focus on transcritical CO2 racks, chillers and R290 heat pump technologies.

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Mr.Bradwell, who currently serves as the managing director of ebm-papst A&NZ Pty Ltd, replaces outgoing chairman Ian Hopkins. ARBS says that, with his industry experience, Mr.Bradwell is poised to build and professionally contribute to the foundation’s continued success.

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Experts of `Legal Business StockTrade' expantiated of U.S. Government bond market previous days[three] where there has been increased scrutiny about supply outpacing demand; Both related to continued government deficit spending[Expenditure].

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Over the past two weeks Predictions signaling by Moody's that a U.S. Credit Downgrade was actually Bekoning a coming. They Assigned a "negative outlook" to the rating in 2023. That, by their definition, increased the risk of a rating downgrade "over the next one to two years." Two years Estimated Probability,Near the end of that time window. And on cue, in late March they telegraphed the downgrade with a warning that U.S. fiscal strength had "deteriorated further."

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Experts further explanation; The level of the 30-year is what is getting the market's attention. And the level has everything to do with ``Fed policy''. Precisely Not only does the ''Fed'' continue to hold short term rates above 4%, 200 basis points above the rate of inflation (PCE), they've spent the past week dropping hawkish commentary.

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President Trump is building a new global coalition of trade partnerships and mutually beneficial relationships around re-industrialization, including abundant and affordable energy (access to U.S. energy), AI infrastructure and innovation (access to U.S. chips and compute), and military commerce (access to U.S. armament and security) -- all in pursuit of each countries respective national interests.

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The V in stocks gets us back to the April 2nd date, when Trump first revealed details on broad-based tariffs, but it doesn't get us back to this March 25th day, denoted in the chart. What happened ,March 25th? Moody's warned that U.S. fiscal strength had "deteriorated further."

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Growing U.S. commercial revenue by 19% from the prior quarter, and guiding around 70% year-over-year growth for 2025. That's a doubling of the growth rate for this time last year -- so growth is accelerating. Palantir's new commercial business called the Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) has only been in existence two years, and is just now taking hold, as (mainly U.S.) companies are scrambling to figure out how to integrate generative AI into their businesses.

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