Market Talk – February 24, 2025

February 24, 2025

Market Talk 2017

ASIA:
The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today:
• NIKKEI 225 closed
• Shanghai decreased 6.09 points or -0.18% to 3,373.03
• Hang Seng decreased 136.31 points or -0.58% to 23,341.61
• ASX 200 increased 12.00 points or 0.14% to 8,308.20
• SENSEX decreased 856.65 points or -1.14% to 74,454.41
• Nifty50 decreased 242.55 points or -1.06% to 22,553.35
The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today:
• AUDUSD increased 0.00068 or 0.11% to 0.63643
• NZDUSD increased 0.00089 or 0.16% to 0.57484
• USDJPY increased 0.102 or 0.07% to 149.439
• USDCNY decreased 0.00192 or -0.03% to 7.25053
The above data was collected around 13:21 EST.
Precious Metals:
•  Gold increased 11.64 USD/t oz. or 0.40% to 2,945.64
•  Silver decreased 0.24 USD/t. oz. or -0.74% to 32.269
The above data was collected around 13:23 EST.
EUROPE/EMEA:
The major Europe stock markets had a mixed day today:
•  CAC 40 decreased 63.52 points or -0.78% to 8,090.99
•  FTSE 100 decreased 0.39 points or 0.00% to 8,658.98
•  DAX 30 increased 138.37 points or 0.62% to 22,425.93
The major Europe currency markets had a mixed day today:
• EURUSD increased 0.00261 or 0.25% to 1.04856
• GBPUSD increased 0.0017 or 0.13% to 1.26500
• USDCHF decreased 0.0029 or -0.32% to 0.89605
The above data was collected around 13:27 EST.

US/AMERICAS:

US Market Closings:

  • Dow advanced 33.19 points or 0.08% to 43,461.21
  • S&P 500 declined 29.88 points or -0.5% to 5,983.25
  • Nasdaq declined 237.08 points or -1.21% to 19,286.92
  • Russell 2000 declined 17.08 points or -0.78% to 2,178.27

 

Canada Market Closings:

  • TSX Composite advanced 4.23 points or 0.02% to 25,151.26
  • TSX 60 declined 0.12 of a point or -0.01% to 1,514.24

 

Brazil Market Closing:

  • Bovespa declined 1,738.09 points or -1.37% to 125,389.97
ENERGY:
The oil markets had a mixed day today:
•  Crude Oil increased 0.356 USD/BBL or 0.51% to 70.756
•  Brent increased 0.401 USD/BBL or 0.54% to 74.831
•  Natural gas decreased 0.2601 USD/MMBtu or -6.14% to 3.9739
•  Gasoline decreased 0.0172 USD/GAL or -0.85% to 2.0148
•  Heating oil decreased 0.0015 USD/GAL or -0.06% to 2.4301
The above data was collected around 13:30 EST.
•  Top commodity gainers: Feeder Cattle (1.64%), Live Cattle (0.72%), Orange Juice (0.70%) and Cheese (2.92%)
•  Top commodity losers: Zinc (-2.67%), Cocoa (-9.17%), Palladium (-3.84%) and Natural Gas (-6.14%)
The above data was collected around 13:36 EST.
BONDS:
Japan 1.4280% (+0.05bp), US 2’s 4.17% (-0.029%), US 10’s 4.3970% (-3.3bps); US 30’s 4.66% (-0.026%), Bunds 2.4895% (+2.7bp), France 3.224% (+0.55bp), Italy 3.5540% (+0.1bp), Turkey 26.14% (-29bp), Greece 3.309% (-0.1bp), Portugal 3.02% (+3.45bp); Spain 3.166% (+2.6bp) and UK Gilts 4.5730% (-0.36bp)
The above data was collected around 13:39 EST.

The German ELections – Massive Fraud?

February 24, 2025

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I have been getting numerous reports of serious fraud in the German election. The fact that Mertz refused to form a coalition with AfD is being viewed as a confirmation of massive fraud. Nonetheless, the AfD and Germany’s Left party jointly secured one-third of the seats in the new parliament that is required to block changes to the constitution, which will help to prevent Mertz from trying to outlaw what they call the far-right, which is anti-immigration which is precisely what BRIXT was all about. Europe as a whole has been on this suicide mission, and they are approaching the 112-year cyclical turning point in 2027 that will most likely start the collapse of the EU. The EU has already made it clear that they were not about to accept a victory for AfD, which would essentially be another BREXIT.

As one read wrote from Germany:

“I doubt whether Mr. Merz would have won without the election fraud in the country. Added to that are the 3.5 million votes from people living abroad who weren’t able to vote because the documents arrived too late! “

 

 

Another reader sent in this video. We cannot verify that this is correct. We will continue to investigate, but the emails are pouring in that the 2025 Germany election seems like the US 2020 election.

French Economy Minister Admits Politics Worsening Deficit

February 24, 2025

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French Economy Minister Eric Lombard is eager to lower the public deficit with an aim of 5.4% of GDP in 2025 followed by 3% into 2029. The European Union requires member states to maintain a budget deficit below 3% but only 17 of the 27 members have met that target. France is the largest European economy failing to maintain this goal as they grapple with ever-rising government debt.

“We are going to work with all the political parties … to discuss, to talk with us. We are going, also, to work with the unions, with the employers, in order to reach a consensus on the main policies that are key for the country, and policies on which we can make adjustments that will allow us to spend less in 2026,” Lombard said, later admitting that politics have had a “negative impact on growth.”

The economy experienced a 0.1% contraction during Q4. The Bank of France expects the economy to grow by 0.1% to 0.2% in Q1 of this year, while the IMF predicts the economy will rise by 0.8% for the year.

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France is facing a fiscal crisis of its own making. The government has consistently failed to address the core structural issues, instead relying on higher taxes and superficial spending cuts, which only serve to undermine economic growth. The public deficit, now surpassing 5.6% of GDP, is spiraling out of control, and the government’s projections to bring it under the EU’s arbitrary 3% threshold by 2029 are nothing more than wishful thinking. History has shown that governments never truly cut spending—they merely shift the burden through taxation, stifling private sector expansion.

The reality is that France, like much of Europe, is caught in a vicious cycle of excessive government intervention, anti-business policies, and high taxation, all of which discourage capital formation. Pension funds are vanishing. Political instability and declining tax revenues have exacerbated the deficit, yet the solution proposed is always the same—more taxes, more regulations, and empty promises of austerity.

Nothing is more inflationary than war, and Macron is eager to send off French troops to Ukraine as he closely aligns with Brussels to spur on the next major war. Confidence will decline, capital will flee, and interest expenditures will continue to rise. France risks a debt crisis that will only accelerate the collapse of the EU’s financial system. As I’ve warned before, the trend is clear: governments refuse to reform until they are left with no choice. The question is not if, but when, France will face the reckoning of its fiscal mismanagement.

White House COVID Coordinator: Vaccine Was NEVER Meant to Prevent Infection

February 24, 2025

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White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx has come out to say that “the science” has “done wrong in public health.” Vaccine hesitancy rates have been rising since it was exposed that the mRNA vaccine did more harm than good. Birx has admitted that the COVID vaccine was never meant to be a preventative measure.

“The science” should not have forced the general population to take an experimental vaccination, Dr. Birx admits. The vaccine was initially designed, allegedly, to protect people “at risk for severe disease” and/or those over 65 with comorbidities. Even then, the vaccine did not protect any segment of the population from transmission and infection. So the most vulnerable in the population were not only still exposed to COVID-19, but they were then at risk for developing potentially fatal side effects brought on by the vaccine itself.

A December poll by Pew Research found that 60% of Americans would not take another booster vaccine. Every dataset shows vaccine hesitancy rates rising, but Dr. Birx believes that overall vaccination rates have fallen by 50%.

“The childhood vaccines, like many of the diseases, you get it once, you don’t get it again,” she explained. “And this is getting the children to have that disease without getting the deadly consequences. That is not what the COVID vaccine was designed to do. It wasn’t designed to prevent infection, and if you look at the vaccine hesitancy rates, they’ve doubled since COVID.

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The public was aggressively told that the vaccine was the ONLY way to survive the pandemic. We WERE told that the vaccine would prevent infection and anyone who declined was putting the entire public at risk. Then the truth behind the Wuhan lab leak was exposed. Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted that there was no science behind social distancing, masking, and lockdowns. Public trust in the government has completely shattered.

There has been a resurgence in diseases like the measles as parents are understandably hesitant to vaccinate their children. I, for one, will no longer take the annual flu vaccination. It has never prevented anyone from contracting the flu, but they say, “Oh, don’t worry. The flu would have been worse if you didn’t take the vaccine.” Countless doctors have told me that I was wise for refusing the COVID jab since they have seen countless patients come in with side effects.

Buttigieg Against DEI

February 24, 2025

Former Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg chastised the practice of DEI initiatives while speaking to the DNC Chair. That’s correct – the same forum that blamed Kamala’s loss on racism and misogyny. Buttigieg recently moved to Michiga,n where he is expected to run for state governor. The Democrats are turning on the very policies they aggressively pushed after realizing the people will no longer vote for woke insanity.

Pete Buttigieg said: “What do we mean when we talk about diversity? Is it caring for people’s different experiences and making sure no one is mistreated because of them, which I will always fight for? Or is it making people sit through a training that looks like something out of Portlandia, which I have also experienced, and it is how, it is how Trump Republicans are made if that comes to your workplace with the best of intentions, but doesn’t actually get at what actually matters here.”

Apparently, DEI initiatives create “Trump Republicans” as people want to be judged on their character and qualifications rather than their race or sex. Pete Buttigieg is the DEFINITION of a DEI hire. He had absolutely no qualifications to lead the nation’s transportation sector. Biden cheered that Pete would become the nation’s first openly gay person to be confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet position. Biden said he was appointing Pete to be in his “Cabinet of barrier-breakers” and openly said he was there “BUILD BACK BETTER.”

What qualifications did he have other than diversity? Some say that he helped handle some transportation issues while acting as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Certainly, that could not be the BEST American for the job.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently lashed out at DEI quotas, partially blaming the program for the recent Delta plane crash. “You couldn’t fill the role rather than us just simply saying, we need the best and brightest individuals, and we’re going to hire you specifically on merit. We’re going to train you specifically on merit,” Senator Markwayne Mullin stated. As a result, class sizes shrank to 80% to 70% of capacity to maintain DEI required ratios. “So Pete Buttigieg carries no credibility. The only reason why he was there was probably because of DEI to begin with,” Mullin said.

Now, Buttigieg is pivoting his stance completely. Yet, as Transportation Secretary, he established the Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity (ACTE) to force employees to undergo civil rights and equity training; he repeatedly apologized for having too many White people in his office. During his 2020 campaign for president, he openly stated that he wanted minorities to vote for him. “I need help, so the black voters who know me best, the people of South Bend, helped return me to the office by an overwhelming margin,” Buttigieg begged.

Following more of his speech at the DNC Chair:

“If we were more serious about the actual values and not caught up in vocabularies and trying to cater to everybody only in terms of their particular slice of combinations of identities versus the shared project. Actually if we thought about it a little bit differently, things like diversity would be actually an example of how we reach out beyond our traditional coalition.”

Politicians will claim to support any agenda that garners votes. Pete Buttigieg moved up the political ranks as a direct result of DEI hiring practices and now he is criticizing his own party for becoming “caught up in vocabularies” and not focusing on “actual values.” Expect more “progressives” to switch their stance and pretend they never supported the woke madness.

The Financial Crisis of the 1890s

February 24, 2025

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QUESTION: Hi Martin,
You have mentioned over and over that J.P. Morgan had to bail out the US Government in the late 1890’s with gold, which was US money at that time. Can you explain to us how the US economy could be strong at that time when the US Government went broke collecting tariffs on imports?
Chaz
ANSWER: The economy was strong, it was the silver democrats who overvalued silver taking bribes from the silver miners. That led to the arbitrage silver was pouring into the USA and swapped for gold. The insolvency was not from domestic debt but from the overvaluation of silver, and gold was the international settlement – not silver.
Cleveland
Today, we are in a debt crisis. This is economically different. The Panic of 1896 was about foreign exchange and the Democrats trying to inflate the economy with silver as they are still trying today with endless spending and no accountability. This led to their attack on the gold standard and the 1893 march on Washington that became the Wizard of Oz. See:
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Merz Wins in Germany but Ignores the People

February 23, 2025

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COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, Congratulations. Socrates was correct once again. Scholz’s unpopular Social Democrat government has the worst performance since World War II. Merz won, and Afd doubled its support, coming in second. If this was America, Merz’s less than 29% would have been a joke. Here, he will rule Germany and stupidly vow no coalition with AfD. He has not got the memo as you say that the people are shifting.

Thank you for Socrates. This is the only forecaster that is not biased.

Hans

REPLY: Yes, Friedrich Merz’s conservative opposition leader, what would not be even a headline in the United States. When you have so many parties fighting, you get very ineffective governments. That many Italians have told me keeps politicians arguing against each other and leaving the people alone. Indeed, as our computer projected, the Alternative for Germany nearly doubled its support, putting in the strongest showing for an alleged “far-right party” that had been against wholesale immigration since World War II.

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Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his left-leaning Social Democrats. He said it was “a bitter election result.” Perhaps he should listen to the people rather than to Kaus Schwab. Marxism does not work. It has destroyed every economy it has ever been deployed because it is outright against human nature.

Merz vowed to move quickly to put together a coalition government but has vowed not to make a coalition with AfD all because the press has labeled them far-right, asking to be Nazis. Any coalition Merz created without AfD will only doom Germany to a continuation of the never-ending economic stagnation of Europe’s biggest economy thanks to Russian sanctions and the stupid net-zero climate change policies. Merz had pushed hard in recent weeks for a stricter approach, but with opposition to NATO against peace with Russia in order to remain relevant, will Merz fall in line with the EU war objectives?

Germany is the most populous country in the 27-nation European Union and a leading member of NATO. It has been Ukraine’s second-biggest weapons supplier after the U.S. Therein lies the problem. Scholtz promised Zelensky he would be his biggest supporter. Ukraine only takes. I never give up anything. The Ukraine government is the most corrupt government runs it in the world, and they are like a merchant who takes your money and declares all sales are final and have no returns.

Based on exit polls and partial counting, the projections put support for Merz’s Union bloc came in at around 28.5% and the anti-immigration AfD at about 20.5% — roughly double its result from 2021. Scholz’s Social Democrats collapsed to just over 16%, which was an all-time historic low even under the 20.5% from 2017. The Greens came in at an appalling just over 12%.

Merz made a huge mistake because of the press and dismissed the idea that voters wanted a coalition with AfD. “We have fundamentally different views, for example on foreign policy, on security policy, in many other areas, regarding Europe, the euro, NATO,” he said. Mertz has ignored the vote and he is just doing as directed by the EU and NATO. This does not speak well for Germany’s’s changing directions.

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I do not see Mertz changing Germany’s economic direction. He must reject the EU and NATO and listen to the German people.

Zelensky Pushes for World War III

February 23, 2025

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Zelensky offered to resign if Ukraine joined NATO, which he knew would start World War III. Sure, he will fly to Miami with his stolen billions and fund the Neo-Nazis of Ukraine to eradicate all Russians. You will never know the pure hatred of Russians in Ukraine. He ran on peace and did the opposite. The death toll in Ukraine has risen from 13,000 to over 1.1 million. This man many see as the anti-Christ whose purpose has been to create World War III.

I would cut off EVERY penny to Ukraine. If the people want to save their country, they better overthrow this dictator who dares to say the Ukrainian people do not want elections. I have not found a single Ukrainian to utter those words. We will never again have any representation in Ukraine, for under his laws, he can execute them for what I write on this blog.

NY Post Joins CNN & MSNBC With Propaganda and Fake News

February 23, 2025

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I always had respect for the New York Post, but this cover has warned that this paper is no different from the rest of the fake news. First of all, they need to look in the dictionary what a dictator is – someone who is not elected. They might stumble upon the truth if they had any reliable source and stopped taking the fake news from Victoria Nuland’s sister-in-law running the Institute for the Study of War. Putin did stand for election, and he won overwhelmingly because the West spins nothing but hatred of Russia. I spoke to a Russian friend who we met in Tokyo 30 years ago, and she echoed the same question I get from Russians all the time:

Why does the West hate us so much?

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Hillary instigated this relentless hatred of Russia with the lies that led to the RussiaGate affair that was concocted with John McCain, the grandfather of Neocons. I wrote the Plot To Seize Russia, and I was in the middle of that attempted regime change and was asked to put in $10 billion to fund it, and I would make $100 billion in return. I refused. That was why Hillary made up the Russia nonsense, claiming Putin interfered in the 2016 election in retaliation for the attempted regime change of 2000, which is why Yeltsin turned to Putin in the first place. But hey, as Churchill said, the truth needs a bodyguard of lies to protect it, and that is what has been taking place.

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Zelensky fired the head of the military because he dared to question what Zelensky was doing. The military objected to invading Russia, but Zelensky was taking his orders from the Neocons in the hope that it would provoke Putin to attack NATO. My sources said that the troops were ordered to go to the border and had no idea they would invade Russia.

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I suggest that Trump should reactivate the draft. Every one of these journalists who pump out this nonsense that Zelensky walks on water should be sent to Ukraine to replace his British and American bodyguard because after the last attempted assassination in May of 2024, he fired the head of his bodyguard and he does not trust Ukrainians for just as some Germans wanted to kill Hitler; the same is taking place in Ukraine.

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Zelensky ran on peace – not war. The Ukrainian death toll when he came to office was 13,000. It is now exceeding 1.1 million, and both of the Ukrainians who worked for me have fled to Berlin and vow never to return. Over 8 million Ukrainians have fled their country while Zelensky cuts deals selling farmland to Blackrock.

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Zelensky knew when Russia would cross the border. To make sure that would take place, the day before, he said Ukraine would rearm with nuclear weapons. That was the final straw, and Putin mentioned that in his speech to the nation. This was the Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse.

 

They knew Russia was on the border. The Neocons handed Kamala the cue card, and she stated Ukraine Should Join NATO as Zelensky stood up and said Ukraine would Rearm with Nuclear weapons.

 

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The Washington Post found out that Zelensky knew when Russia would cross the border and did not inform his people. Why? He told the Post it would have cost him $7 billion. This was one of my sources in Ukraine.  Zelensky, who the US press loves, made it illegal under Ukrainian law to criticize him for daring to say that he and the West were doing everything to start this war.

Zelensky had Gonzalo Lira arrested, and I believe he was murdered just like Epstein because nobody will ever allow someone to have a trial that will expose the truth about what is taking place in government. When Zelensky was told to have an election, he said the Ukrainian people did not want an election. That, New York Post, is a dictator! Wake the hell up. You just lost my subscription. You are no different than the rest of the fake news.

Zelensky has even publicly stated that 50% of the money allocated for Ukraine is missing.

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The New York Post ignores the fraud of the West in negotiating the Minsk agreement openly stating it was to buy time for Ukraine to build its army demonstrated that the West is the aggressor and has wanted this war from the outset driven by the Neocon’s endless quest for regime change to rule the world themselves. Moldavia and Romania will no longer even exist post-2032. This is a disastrous forecast coming from our computer. Those readers in that region should consider alternatives to migrate while they still have time.

 

Zelensky has been pushing for NATO troops and Americans to start World War III.

 

 

Zelensky has called for nuclear war with Russia.

DO YOUR RESEARCH – just for once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have the Neocons bribed the NY Post Journalists to Push for World War III?

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