Saudi and China will be discussing regional security when Xi visits Riyadh

Twice in a week agreeing with Yellen, who now correctly states the need to stabilise relations with China.

US Treasury publicly admitting US needs China.

In particular, the agreement signed on Nov 10th, 2022 in Washington, provides that BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory will consult Ministry of Economy on creation of a roadmap for implementation of an investment platform.

https://www.kmu.gov.ua/en/news/ministerstvo-ekonomiki-ukrayini-pidpisalo-memorandum-iz-najbilshoyu-investkompaniyeyu-svitu

Proverbial has hit the fan

Turkish Interior Ministry:

We know who was responsible for coordinating the recent terrorist attack in Istanbul and we do not accept the condolences of the US Embassy.

London Loses Crown of Biggest European Stock Market to Paris

The decline of UK continues.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-14/london-loses-its-crown-of-biggest-european-stock-market-to-paris

Zelensky now saying we are ready for peace.

Russian - US talks were held in Ankara via the initiative of Washington.

Careful in assessing the context of these discussions.

It's very clear that China has no trust in the US.

They regard Washington as talking out of both sides of their mouth. Frankly this should be obvious to anyone.

As we alluded to, Washington admits that Ukraine was not discussed during US - Russia talks, only the threat of nuclear weapons and nuclear war as we have been stating for weeks.

US has informed Israel that it is opening an investigation into the killing of the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

There are claims that Russia, in the coming months, is going to see weapons production output rise to levels not seen since WW2.

Global South is increasingly realising that it needs to insulate itself from the traditional methods deployed by the west to threaten, coerce and destroy them.

Something happened in Poland.

We have no idea what and neither does anyone else.

Nothing more to say for now.

UK winning as usual

UK CPI yoy 11.1% versus estimate of 10.7% and previous 10.1%

Trump in 2022 is not the Trump we saw in 2016.

His popularity is not what it was and many of the candidates he supported in the recent elections failed to win.

Ongoing economic, financial and geopolitical decline of the US might change that over the course of next 2 years.

Whilst the UK and the US refused to talk to Lavrov at the G20, Macron and Scholz did.

As we have been saying for months, the West and by extension NATO members are divided wrt to their Ukraine war policy initiatives.

Clown show continues. West continues to press self-destruct button.

Having immediately blamed Russia for missile strike in Poland and then having to face reality we now have western leaders and officials claiming it is still Russia's fault even though it was Ukraine responsible.

CNN admitting Iran mass execution story was fake news.

Trudeau deleted a tweet containing false information on mass death sentences in Iran.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/15/world/trudeau-deletes-false-tweet-iran-mass-executions-intl/index.html

Interesting considering the endless claims since about April that Russia was running out of missiles that the US now admits that Russia launched last Tuesday the largest number of missiles at Ukrainian cities, ever observed since the start of the war.

Yet another warning sign

Germany's yield curve, 2 / 10 year has turned negative for first time since 2008.