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Warning, Crash Dead Ahead! We are Entering The ENDING PHASE OF BULL MARKET

MARK HULBERT: Bear market may begin

Will the bull market come to an end on Oct. 9?

Oct. 9, for better and for worse, is a big date historically for the stock market.

Don’t laugh. It turns out that two of the most prominent market turning points of the last decade occurred on this very date.

The first was the beginning of the 2002-2007 bull market, which occurred on Oct. 9, 2002.

Rating of Spain to the brink of bankruptcy

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The agency rating U.S. Egan Jones cut on Friday (July 20), the notation of Spain CCC + (the first level of imminent risk of default ) to CC +, one step at a situation of bankruptcy official (notation C).

This is the fifth since the Egan Jones cut the rating of Spain from mid-April, when the agency has qualified the Spanish debt out of land speculation (aka “financial junk”). The [...]

Why the death of Gaddafi caused a plague of locusts in Africa as despot’s pest control system disintegrates

Insect swarms allowed to breed and spread from Libya following Gaddafi’s death
Despot had carried out well-resourced pest control on insects until his death
Agricultural experts fear swarms could be devastating for croplands in neighbouring Niger and Mali

The Arab Spring and the fall of Colonel Gaddafi have continued to have long-lasting effects across the entire African continent, after agricultural experts warned of swarms of locusts about to move from Libya into neighbouring [...]

Israel ‘facing major West Bank uprising over hunger strike’

Palestinian militant groups and moderate politicians alike have predicted that years of relative tranquility could be brought to an abrupt and violent end if any of the 1,600 inmates now refusing food were to starve to death.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said this week that the six inmates who have declined sustenance the longest are “at imminent risk of dying”.

None of the six, who have all been admitted [...]

Israel ‘facing major West Bank uprising over hunger strike’

Palestinian militant groups and moderate politicians alike have predicted that years of relative tranquility could be brought to an abrupt and violent end if any of the 1,600 inmates now refusing food were to starve to death.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said this week that the six inmates who have declined sustenance the longest are “at imminent risk of dying”.

None of the six, who have all been admitted [...]

Ambrose: ‘Leaders are pushing the world into Depression’

The world savings rate has surpassed its modern-era high of 24pc. This is the killer in the global system. It is why we are at imminent risk of tipping into a second, deeper leg of intractable depression.

In Europe, policy is still on deflationary settings, with protestors in Athens fighting back against austerity measures.  Photo: REUTERS

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor

The International Monetary Fund [...]

All Tiger Airways domestic flights in Australia suspended; regulators cite safety concerns – AAP

All Tiger Airways Australia domestic flights have been suspended. (AAP)

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has suspended all Tiger Airways Australia domestic flights with immediate effect from Saturday.

CASA says the action has been taken because it believes permitting the airline to continue to fly poses a serious and imminent risk to air safety.

The suspension of Tiger Airways Australia follows the issue of a show cause notice [...]