In contrast to the U.S. stock market, which is dropping quickly, European stocks are taking off:
>>>Europeans would need to ramp up military spending quickly, a notion that has set off a market rally, led by defense stocks. . . . European defense stocks
soared on Monday after the region’s leaders vowed to take on “
the heavy lifting” of defending Ukraine from Russia. The rally comes as the three-year-old war appears set to move into a new stage after an Oval Office blowup on Friday put President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on the outs with President Trump.<<<
Europeans would need to ramp up military spending quickly, a notion that has set off a market rally, led by defense stocks.
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Having a really f'ing old real estate developer as president might not be so bad if he was willing to take advice from people who actually know what the [bleep] they're doing.