Day: May 27, 2025

US stocks have fallen out of the Top 40 with investors worldwide this year – and chart watchers can blame President Trump’s flip-flopping song and dance on tariffs. This year through May 20, Chinese stocks are up 19.9% while neighboring South Korea’s are up 14.3%. Europe’s are up 22.3% including Germany’s, which are up 20%….

Jupiter, our planet of gilded purse strings and padded wallets, is in its final weeks in the sign of Gemini. It brings opportunities for growth, joy and wealth in its myriad forms.

President Vladimir Putin said late Monday that Western tech companies still operating in Russia but acting against the country’s interests should be “strangled,” as authorities seek to replace foreign software and services with domestic alternatives. “We need to strangle them… I say this without hesitation,” Putin told business leaders at a Kremlin meeting, responding to complaints from Iva Technologies CEO Stanislav Iodkovsky, who said local firms were “losing billions” because companies like Zoom and Microsoft had not fully withdrawn from the Russian market. “We must respond in kind, mirror their actions,” the Kremlin leader added.

Just hours after the episode, the police announced that the driver was a white British man. After previous violence, false anti-Muslim speculation had been spread online.

The German chancellor said Kyiv’s permission to hit targets inside Russia is “something that has been happening for months.”

“Apparently, dementia comes as a hereditary gift for all U.S. presidents,” a pro-Kremlin bot wrote.