Global Stocks over the Long Term: the S&P 500, the Big Standout vs the Markets of Japan, China, Hong Kong, India, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Canada – WOLF STREET

And how did the depreciation of the yen and rupee affect US dollar investors in Japanese and Indian stocks? Wolf Street by Wolf Richter: The S&P 500 rose 24% in 2024 and 53% in 2023 and 2024 combined. That's a huge two-year gain, reminiscent of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, when the S&P […]
Joe Biden Travels to Italy to Meet Pope Francis, Giorgia Meloni

ROME – President Joe Biden has announced that he will visit Italy in January and meet with Pope Francis, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Italian President Sergio Mattarella. white house said Biden spoke by phone with Pope Francis on Thursday, during which he “greedily accepted Pope Francis' invitation to visit the Vatican next month.'' […]
Houston Rockets owner tapped as Trump's Italy ambassador

President-elect Donald Trump announced that Tilman Fertitta, owner of the NBA's Houston Rockets team, will serve as the U.S. ambassador to Italy. “Mr. Tillman is an accomplished businessman who founded and built some of our nation's largest entertainment and real estate companies that employ nearly 50,000 Americans,” Trump wrote in an article Saturday. real social […]
Biden to travel to Italy for meetings with pope, Meloni in January

President Biden will visit Italy in January and meet with Pope Francis, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Italian President Sergio Mattarella. This overseas trip from January 9th to 12th is likely to be President-elect Trump's last trip as president until he takes office on January 20th. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement […]
Italy bans Airbnb self check-ins as Rome braces for influx of travelers fueled by Holy Year

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Unwelcome in Germany, UniCredit CEO zeroes in on Italy – Yahoo Finance

Written by Tom Sims, John O'Donnell, Valentina Za MUNICH/FRANKFURT/MILAN (Reuters) – Days before UniCredit Chief Executive Andrea Orcel sets her sights on an Italian takeover target, fierce resistance to her interest in Germany's main lender Commerzbank More evidence has come to light. A group of German business elite customers implored Commerzbank's CEO to reject the […]
Italian weightlifter won Paris Olympics bronze while on trial for gang rape in Italy

An Italian Olympic weightlifter won a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Games while on trial for rape in his home country, according to new reports on Tuesday. Antonino Pizzolato finished third for Italy in the 81kg snatch, clean and jerk event this summer, but it was a 29-year-old Finnish tourist's journey to Sicily that […]
‘We need a cultural revolution’: femicide victim’s family seek change in Italy | Italy

JThe day after learning that her sister Julia had died, Elena Cecchettin was interviewed live on TV outside her family home in Vigonovo, a small town near Venice. Behind her, a flower stand was tied to the railing and a torchlight procession was taking place, attended by thousands of well-wishers. But Elena wasn't looking for […]
Malian singer Rokia Traoré to be extradited from Italy to Belgium | Music

Malian musician Rokia Traore arrested in rome Last June's trial over an international child custody dispute will be extradited to Belgium in the coming days after Italy's highest court rejected her appeal, her lawyer announced on Wednesday. Traore, 50, who is also a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), was […]
Italian leaders push back at accusations of police racism and homophobia | Italy

The Council of Europe has come under fire from Italian leaders after it released a report accusing the country's police of racist and homophobic abuse. Latest snapshot ECRI, Italy's independent human rights watchdog of the Council, announced on Monday that during its visit to Italy, its delegation found “many reports of racial profiling by law […]