Forbes: Bullish News For Crypto -- CME Bitcoin Shorts Hit Extreme Level

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Extreme short bitcoin futures positioning on the CME suggests prices for the cryptocurrency could be set for a bounce. Read more here.

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Forbes: China’s Demographic Problem Set To Torpedo Its Economy, Report Warns

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Forget all the other worries about China. The big problem is that the country is going to run out of its most productive workers. Read more here.

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CBS Eye in the World with John Batchelor: Boris Johnson awakens the North Sea gas fields just in time. Simon Constable

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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: Extinction Rebellion at the Glasgow Pubs

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Forbes: European Steel Prices To Continue Falling, Bank Says

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The hits the global manufacturing economy just keep coming. Read more here.

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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: Winter is Coming Tonight

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Forbes: What Surprise? Weeks Ago Steel Production Showed China’s Economy Was On The Rocks

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China just announced economic growth has slowed. And some analysts are saying they expected the second-largest economy to have done better.

That was a mistake. There were concrete signs that the Chinese economy was in far more trouble than many would admit last month. Read more here.

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Forbes: Crypto Scores Huge Own Goal — Few Trust It, And Worse

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Crypto still has a way to go with capturing the hearts and minds of the general public.

Just 5.6% of the U.S. and UK population trust cryptocurrency as a safe investment, new research conducted by Traders of Crypto found. Almost two-in-three said, “no,” they don’t trust it as an investment, and the rest didn’t know what a cryptocurrency was. Read more here.

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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: Part 2 -- The UK food, fuel and Christmas shortages coming our way

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CBS Eye in the World with John Batchelor: Part 1 -- The UK food, fuel and Christmas shortages coming our way

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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: Decoupling from the PRC real or hoped?

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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: No petrol queues in chilly Scotland

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Leidos: Is the future of coal in super material graphene?

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Coal is mostly known as a fuel to generate power, but scientists are actively exploring its lesser-known potential. Now the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and Leidos have discovered a new way to transform coal into graphene, a super material so promising it earned scientists the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. Read more here.

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CityWire: Investing in commercial real estate may improve your portfolio performance

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

“Real estate may serve as a hedge against market risks, such as inflation,” says David Vincent, CFA, CAIA, investment Specialist at New York-based real estate financial technology company Cadre. “It tends to be less volatile than equities and holds its value over the long term.” Read more here.

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CityWire: How macro data can help identify promising commercial real estate markets

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Data scientists are upending the way investors select and buy commercial real estate. Quantitative machine learning techniques, analyzing millions of data points from thousands of variables reflect a radical change in the real estate industry. Such predictive analysis builds upon the traditional method of buying and selling properties, which once relied solely on a deep personal knowledge of local markets by individuals. Read more here.

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WSJ: When Investors Mention ‘Decoupling,’ What Do They Mean?

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The Wall Street term had one definition for decades, while now it has another. Read more here.

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Barron's: Brazil’s Stocks Fizzle as Political Problems, Inflation Persist

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On the face of things, booming commodities markets should mean Brazil’s outlook would be promising. But the reality is that global investors have lost confidence in the county’s leadership, including President Jair Bolsonaro. The situation could get worse as global growth slows, experts say.

“Earlier this year, Brazil was a favorite investment play, but it fell out of favor,” says Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex. “Bolsonaro has lost credibility with investors.” Read more here.

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