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Time to shop. Microeconomics focuses on the behavior of individual people and enterprises, and how we choose to allocate our resources. ©Prostock-studio, Envato Elements A team from the University of Tokyo has combined economic theory with biology to understand how natural systems respond to change. The researchers noticed a similarity between consumers’ shopping behavior and the behavior of metabolic systems, which convert food into energy in our bodies. The team focused on predicting how different metabolic systems might respond to environmental change by using an economic tool called the Slutsky equation. Their calculations indicated that very different metabolic systems actually…

Professional Bitcoin Holdings Drop 17% as Hedge Funds Cut Exposure Coinpedia Source link

Worldcoin drops 8.7% on Upbit despite extreme greed signal, showing high volatility and profit-taking.Worldcoin (WLD) fell 8.7% on Upbit, trading between 717 and 835 won amid an extreme greed sentiment signal, indicating high short-term volatility and profit-taking. Despite its long-term goal of expanding financial access, WLD is currently behaving l… Source link

Africa Private Equity News is pleased to present the May 2026 issue of our Dealmaker’s Log, which tracks the reported African private equity/debt and venture capital transactions from last month (and extending back to an archive of transactions since May 2023).This edition features 30 new transactions from firms including: Apis Partners, AFC Capital Partners, Appian Capital Advisory, Sango Capital, Ninety One, Inspired Evolution, Metier, Investec Principal Investments, Sanlam Alternative Investments, AHL Venture Partners, Cygnum Capital, Lightrock, AfricInvest, Impact Fund Denmark, Tether, Emkan Capital, Shorooq Partners, Catalyst Fund, and many more!Access the Dealmaker’s Log May 2026 below: Source link

International gold and silver prices both dropped sharply on Friday. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, gold futures for August delivery fell 3.35 percent to settle at 4,353.90 U.S. dollars per ounce, while silver futures for July delivery dropped 8.08 percent to close at 67.995 dollars per ounce. Gold, silver futures drop on Friday The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to 452, including 82 deaths, according to the latest situation report released by the country’s health ministry. According to the report, health authorities reported 71 new confirmed cases on June…

Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is continuing its investigation into the illegal use of electricity in the Mestia municipality of the Svaneti region. Over the past three days, law enforcement officers have seized 212 cryptocurrency mining devices. According to the ministry, during recent searches, police officers in the Samegrelo-Upper Svaneti region discovered and confiscated another 17 miners. Previously, 195 devices had been seized. Investigators believe that local residents used the equipment for cryptocurrency mining, illegally consuming large amounts of electricity and thereby systematically generating illegal income. The MIA stated that the investigation is ongoing. Law enforcement officers are identifying…

Mexico Economic Update Luis Torres and Diego Morales-Burnett May 2025 economic report GDP, realQ1 ’25 Employment, formal May ’25 CPIMay ’25 Peso/dollarMay ’25 0.8% q/q -3,700 jobs m/m 4.4% y/y 19.44 Mexico’s economy expanded slightly in the first quarter. A sizable increase in the agricultural sector drove the expansion. The consensus forecast for 2025 real GDP growth (fourth quarter, year over year) compiled by Banco de México was 0.2 percent in May (Table 1). The latest data available indicated a mixed economic outlook as employment and remittances fell, while output primarily driven by agriculture, industrial production, exports and retail sales…

The former senior CIA official found with more than $40 million worth of gold bars in his house allegedly created a fake, highly classified intelligence program that he used as a conduit to funnel millions of dollars for his personal use, according to people familiar with the criminal investigation. Source link

This week, I attended a capital markets event at the London Stock Exchange to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Patria Private Equity Trust (PPET). For those less familiar with it, PPET aims to deliver long-term total returns by giving shareholders access to a diversified portfolio of private equity-backed companies, most of which are focused on Europe. It does this through a mix of primary and secondary private equity fund commitments, alongside direct co-investments. The trust has been successful in achieving its aims over the long term. However, much has changed over the past quarter of a century and progress is…

Azerbaijan’s 2027-2030 fiscal strategy, based around an oil price assumption of USD65/b, aims at reducing the non-oil primary deficit to 13% of GDP by 2029, down from the 18.6% actual deficit in 2025 and 22.2% in 2022, according to the statement by Fitch Ratings, cited by Report.The agency believes that amendments to the fiscal framework, such as limiting the scope for changes to medium-term fiscal targets, and the government’s objective to reduce SOFAZ budget transfers over the medium term, could help reduce pro-cyclicality of fiscal policy, by avoiding the build-up of macroeconomic imbalances, and improve policy predictability, as well supporting…