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Leading fund managers are warning that sentiment towards the London Stock Exchange is drastically low following a meeting with Downing Street to discuss the issue. Nick Lawson, chief executive of investment group Ocean Wall, described UK equity markets as being at “rock bottom” following a meeting with Varun Chandra, the government’s special adviser on business. Lawson was joined at the meeting to discuss ways to revitalise the stock market by star stockpickers such as David Cumming from Newton Investment Management, Schroders’ Andy Brough, and Michael Stiasny from M&G Investments, according to the FT. “This is the first time I’ve felt...

SummaryXi offers 66-bln yuan credit line, fresh corporate investment Brazil's Lula says LATAM's fate independent of China, US, EU Lula says LATAM future 'depends on our actions' China, CELAC trade reaches $515 billion in 2024 - Chinese data BEIJING, May 13 (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping vowed on Tuesday to boost China's footprint in Latin America and the Caribbean with a new $9 billion credit line and fresh infrastructure investment, although Brazil warned the region not to become overly reliant on foreign funding. The world's second-largest economy will disburse 66 billion yuan ($9.18 billion) in credit to the Community of...

A plane of at least 59 White South Africans arrived at Dulles International Airport on Monday, following President Donald Trump’s decision to grant them protected refugee status — citing South Africa’s “egregious discrimination.” The Afrikaners, a South African ethnic group descended primarily from Dutch, French, and German settlers, were greeted by U.S. officials — including Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar. “They tell quite harrowing stories of the violence that they faced in South Africa that was not redressed by the authorities by the unjust application of the law,” Landau stated. “The...

CV NEWS FEED // A Missouri bill to support struggling parents and protect vulnerable newborns is now awaiting Gov. Mike Kehoe’s signature after passing both chambers with overwhelming bipartisan support. Sponsored by Rep. Jim Murphy, R-Oakville, the legislation would expand the Safe Haven Baby Box program, raise tax credits for maternity homes and diaper banks, and establish a new “Zero-Cost Adoption Fund.” Murphy described the measure as “a pro-life bill that everybody agrees with,” Call Newspapers reported. The proposal, officially titled the “Safe Place for Newborns Fund,” passed the House 136-1 and the Senate 31-1. It directs state resources toward...

Bilaterian animals such as arthropods and annelids have paired appendages and are among the most diverse animals today and in the geological past. They are often assumed to have appeared and radiated suddenly during the "Cambrian Explosion" about 541-510 million years ago, although it has long been suspected that their evolutionary ancestry was rooted in the Ediacaran Period. Until the current discovery, however, no fossil record of animal appendages had been found in the Ediacaran Period.Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Virginia Tech in the United States studied trackways and...

When a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Dr John Clauser, labels the claims about greenhouse gases warming the Earth as “pseudoscience” and describes them as “a dangerous corruption of science,” I urge you to take notice. He further stated that “the IPCC is one of the worst sources of dangerous misinformation,” and remarked that climate science has “metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience.”Similarly, Professor Harold (Hal) Lewis, a distinguished physicist, called such claims “the biggest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud” he had encountered in his lifetime. Another German physicist expressed outrage upon discovering that much of what the IPCC and the media presented...

Hoarding Euros Withdrawing large sums in cash is no longer possible in Spain without the government’s approval. Those withdrawing €3,000 or more must notify Spain’s tax agency, Agencia Tributaria, in advance. Withdrawals at or exceeding €100,000 require a 72-hour approval process, and the tax agency is requesting a 24-hour mandatory notification for any amount over €3,000. A few news outlets are reporting that the Spanish government will impose a €150,000 fine on those who fail to report, but Project Veritas found that to be false. Article 4 of Order EHA/98/2010 states that these new measures are safeguarding institutions against money...

Several dozen white South African refugees were recently welcomed to Washington, D.C., most proudly waving American flags.Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar welcomed the refugees, who are fleeing racial discrimination, persecution, violence, and murder in their home country.Or, as President Trump termed it, “genocide.”Before signing an Executive Order meant to reduce drug prices, Trump told reporters at the White House:“It is a genocide that is taking place that you people don’t want to write about. It’s a terrible thing that’s taking place and farmers are being killed. They happen to be...

CV NEWS FEED // A woman who left Texas to obtain an abortion pill reversed her decision with the help of the Fort Worth Pregnancy Center, Texas Right to Life reported May 12. Now, her son is a healthy toddler. The woman, whom Texas Right to Life called Tania to protect her privacy, had contacted an abortion fund, one of many operating inside and outside the state, according to the organization. The group paid for her to travel out of Texas, where abortion is illegal, stay in a hotel, and for her abortion pill. “She got there, and she took...

CV NEWS FEED // The Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) is included in House Republicans’ omnibus tax bill, US Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-LA, announced May 12. Cassidy, a chief sponsor of the ECCA, said in a post on X that the inclusion of the act in what President Donald Trump has called the “one big, beautiful bill” is a victory for parents and children. Cassidy and US Sen. Tim Scott, R-SC, led the introduction of the ECCA, which offers a charitable donation incentive for people and businesses who help fund scholarship awards to offset expenses for qualified students’ public...

FLOTUS Melania Trump and President Trump host a Celebration for Military Mothers - May 8, 2025

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has launched a compliance review to investigate allegations that technicians employed by a hospital faced possible termination due to their objections to performing ultrasounds used in abortion procedures. “This matter is the second investigation of an entity’s compliance with laws protecting the exercise of conscience that OCR has initiated during President Trump’s second term,” HHS observed Monday in a press release. “Today’s announcement is part of a larger effort to strengthen enforcement of laws protecting conscience and religious exercise.” “The Department is committed to enforcement of...

U.S. — Democrat onlookers were baffled at the unusual sight of a group of immigrants arriving in the United States legally while waving patriotic American flags. A group of 59 Afrikaners escaped persecution in South Africa and arrived in Washington this week. Upon touching down, they were seen celebrating with American flags and big smiles. Sources confirmed they have no plans to destroy America. "Wait, I'm confused. They don't hate America?" said one Democrat immigration activist. "Why are we even letting them in? This is weird." "Wait. They don't actually love America, do they? Oh no..." After further research, it...

Pastoring a church in Johannesburg, South Africa, I hear this complaint periodically. Crudely put, Christianity is the white man’s religion and has no place amongst true Africans. In an era where forming an African identity aside from Colonialism is high on people’s agenda, it’s a compelling argument to some. Except that it’s not true. For Christianity was present in Africa 1000 years before the first European Colonialists arrived on African shores. You may be familiar with the strong base for Christianity established in Alexandria, Egypt, in the 1st century. Eusebius even wrote that the Gospel writer, Mark, came to Alexandria...

In the opening sentence of Douglas Murray’s current bestseller, On Democracies and Death Cults, Murray writes, “Sometimes a flare goes up and you see exactly where everyone is standing.”In this case, the flare was the October 7, 2023 pogrom in southern Israel perpetrated by Hamas and hordes of “innocent” Gazan civilians.And that flare starkly illuminated the unmistakable outline of Tucker Carlson.On the wrong side of the wire.For years Carlson offered conservative punditry at outlets like the Weekly Standard, CNN, and MSNBC, until he really took off in 2016 as Fox News’s most popular conservative. In 2019, Michael Anton labeled Carlson...

The term “black fatigue” has recently taken the internet by storm, and Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” saw it coming from a decade away. “It is the antithesis, it is the yin to the yang of Black Lives Matter. It’s white people boldly expressing their fatigue with black people,” Whitlock explains, adding, “This was inevitable.” “That’s why I spent so much time during the whole Black Lives Matter psyop, about a decade, saying, ‘This is crazy, Black Lives Matter is going to create a boomerang effect, it’s going to harden hearts,’” he continues.

CV NEWS FEED // A teenager just celebrated her first Mother’s Day during her third trimester of pregnancy, and thanked a local pregnancy resource center for encouraging her and her boyfriend to keep the baby. Emily was 17, a senior in high school, when she and her boyfriend Brian found out they were expecting a baby. They found Heartbeat of Miami online and decided to go in for an appointment. “When me and my boyfriend first came in, we were very scared, very nervous, didn’t know what to expect, and all I could think about was how I was going...

U.S. — In a shocking exposé, CNN anchor Jake Tapper has revealed new evidence that Biden's mental and physical decline was covered up for years by Jake Tapper. "These allegations regarding Jake Tapper are disturbing," said Jake Tapper. "The idea that someone would use their power as a journalist to lie and withhold essential information from the American public is beyond the pale. This Jake Tapper guy, whoever he is, should be ashamed of himself." The bombshell report was detailed in a new book by Jake Tapper. It chronicles years of egregious cover-ups and collusion between the White House and...

In the era of leftist environmental fear-mongering, companies far and wide are looking for ways to virtue signal their supposed eco-friendliness. But consumers are often left with products that are less effective, more annoying, or both. One example that has infuriated motorists for years is the trend in newer vehicles for the engine to shut off at stops — a feature that is almost universally despised by the general public