The Traderszone Network

I posted early in the week on
Merkel being
expected to announce a run for a 4th term next year
The Merk spoke on Saturday:
– Said she would increase investment in German in 2017 (more spending in an election year, who’dathunkit?)

Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell, speaking on Friday at the San Francisco Fed’s Center for Pacific Basic Studies annual conference
– There are still barriers to world trade

Just a couple of items over the weekend wires:
– Power outages at Iraq’s Kirkuk oil field have caused a drop in exports
– Officials estimate exports currently running at 100K bpd (compared to 133K in October)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaking at the APEC summit
– Xi speaking in response to expectations the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is dead

Abe and Putin will meet on December 16
– Follows a Japan – Russia summit on an already planned December 15
– December 16 meeting said to focus on bilateral economic talks

After everyone from Jesse Jackson, to the terrified mainstream media to prominent Congressional Democrats have called upon Obama to issue a blanket pardon for Hillary Clinton, he finally admitted that it’s not possible to pardon someone who hasn’t yet stood trial for a crime.  And while Obama was referencing a potential pardon of Edward Snowden with his comments, one could assume that the law should be applied the same way for all U.S. citizens.

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Father calls 911 before shooting himself, wife and children in triple murder-suicide

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