After years of highly publicized trials in Europe, a new judicial case has been opened on allegedly "ill-gotten gains" by the family of Denis Sassou-Nguesso, President of Congo-Brazzaville, in the United States this time. Two Florida federal prosecutors have initiated proceedings last month on the behalf of the United States Department of Justice to seize a luxury property in Florida estimated at close to $ 3 million, which they claim was acquired by Denis Christel Sassou-Nguesso, the son of the Congolese dictator Denis Sassou-Nguesso. 

They loot their countries, swim in a sea of wealth and stash funds away from their empoverished homelands,  mostly in Western foreign lands, while their people are starving or dying from easily preventable diseases, and their killing squads are brutally murdering those who dare to speak up against corruption, embezzlement and tyranny.

"They" are tyrants and corrupt foreign leaders and their relatives and confidents. They come from all over the World.  Africa counts many.  After siphoning the economies of their countries, they use the loot to buy mansions, private jets, yachts, rare paintings and artworks, luxury apartments, jewelry, million dollar cars, and other expensive items in the West or hide the money through shell companies. 

They loot their countries, swim in a sea of wealth and orgies farther from their homelands,  mostly in Western foreign lands, especially the United States, while their people are starving or dying from easily preventable diseases, and their killing squads are brutally murdering those who dare to speak up against corruption, embezzlement and tyranny.

"They" are tyrants and corrupt foreign leaders and their relatives. Some of the most notorious are from Africa. The latest case, involving Samuel Mebiame,  the son of the late Gabon Prime Minister Leon Mebiame, highlights the extent of corruption and kleptocracy in Africa.

On Wednesday July 26, 2017, Wal-Mart crossed a major threshold, going above $79.00 for the first time since the announcement of the acquisition of Whole Foods Markets (WFM) by Amazon.

Jet.com, an online retailer startup has agreed to be bought by the retailer giant Wal-Mart in a deal valued at $3.3 billion.  Wal-Mart had been trying to break into e-commerce, from its traditional brick-and-mortar retail business for more than a decade. Since 2000, Wal-Mart has been trying to build an on-line presence, with Walmart.com,  and hired online executives, such Neil Ashe. It built its own e-commerce to compete against the leaders, especially Amazon. Amazon's growing

Making Cents International is inviting youths for The Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit 2015 in order to provide a demand-driven Knowledge Management (KM) platform to build the capacity of positive youth development stakeholders worldwide to design, implement, and evaluate high-impact youth economic opportunity programs, policies, and partnerships.

U.S. housing starts fell more than expected in August, but a rebound in building permits pointed to sustained strength in the housing market.

The 2,320-mile long Mississippi River has been a critical economic lifeline for New Orleans and the nation, for thousands of years.

On July 9, 2021, the stock market sentiment appeared positive and all the indexes were in the records territory.  Although the dynamics of the stock market remain complex, many stocks have continued to show strengh. The week of July 12, 2021 will kickoff the  second-quarter earnings season. As the week is about to start, AroniSmart™ team looked at the stock performance, stocks profiles,  market sentiment index and events driving the stock market on July 9, 2021 and leading into the week of July 12-16, 2021. A few stocks were found to be consistently high performing.

Apple Inc. (NYSE: AAPL)  delivered strong returns in 2019 and 2020 and Q1 2021. At its height, at the end of January 2021, Apple stock price had risen by 208%, YoY and 8% YTD.   Then the situation started to change with increasing market volatility and other dynamics. From the high in Jan 2019 to the low level in early March 10, 2021, Apple stock price has declined by 16%.  A huge drop for such a prominent stock.  AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning Time Series capabilities, including Support Vector Machine,  and Dominance Analysis of AroniSmartIntelligence™ and AroniSmartInvest™,  has looked at the trends of  the stock price of AAPL vs other  the stock prices 11 selected  companies  in 2020 and 2021Q1and came up with insights and  projections on the dynamics.   The insights are presented below (for disclaimer and terms, check AroniSoft website)

Twitter (TWTR) stock price has been on a strong momentum since the January 2020.  The momentum followed a drop at the of the 2019. Year-to-date, Twitter stock price has risen by 47%.   From  July 2020, Twitter stock price has risen by 47%.  AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning Time Series capabilities  and Dominance Analysis of AroniSmartIntelligence™,  has looked at the trends of TWTR vs other 13  companies and came up with insights and  projections on the dynamics.  

On July 9, 2021, the stock market sentiment appeared positive and all the indexes were in the records territory.  Although the dynamics of the stock market remain complex, many stocks have continued to show strengh. The week of July 12, 2021 will kickoff the  second-quarter earnings season. As the week is about to start, AroniSmart™ team looked at the stock performance, stocks profiles,  market sentiment index and events driving the stock market on July 9, 2021 and leading into the week of July 12-16, 2021. A few stocks were found to be consistently high performing.

Apple Inc. (NYSE: AAPL)  delivered strong returns in 2019 and 2020 and Q1 2021. At its height, at the end of January 2021, Apple stock price had risen by 208%, YoY and 8% YTD.   Then the situation started to change with increasing market volatility and other dynamics. From the high in Jan 2019 to the low level in early March 10, 2021, Apple stock price has declined by 16%.  A huge drop for such a prominent stock.  AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning Time Series capabilities, including Support Vector Machine,  and Dominance Analysis of AroniSmartIntelligence™ and AroniSmartInvest™,  has looked at the trends of  the stock price of AAPL vs other  the stock prices 11 selected  companies  in 2020 and 2021Q1and came up with insights and  projections on the dynamics.   The insights are presented below (for disclaimer and terms, check AroniSoft website)

Twitter (TWTR) stock price has been on a strong momentum since the January 2020.  The momentum followed a drop at the of the 2019. Year-to-date, Twitter stock price has risen by 47%.   From  July 2020, Twitter stock price has risen by 47%.  AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning Time Series capabilities  and Dominance Analysis of AroniSmartIntelligence™,  has looked at the trends of TWTR vs other 13  companies and came up with insights and  projections on the dynamics.