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The shift to value continues, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record high on Monday while the technology-heavy Nasdaq slipped. Investors can play the ongoing value shift through targeted exchange traded funds.
The materials sector rose to a record high after miners and makers of steel products rallied on the record-setting run in gold, copper, and aluminum, Reuters reports.
Meanwhile, energy stocks advanced to their highest in over a year after a ransomware cyber attack on the top U.S. pipeline operator, Colonial Pipeline, halted a fuel network that transfers almost half of the East Coast’s energy supply.
He said it was “impressive” how fast the COVID-19 vaccine was developed by multiple companies such as Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, which prevented sales being dominated by one company. However, he did not think this experience would be common going forward when it came to drug testing trials.
He was also watching for how effective the vaccine would be and whether new variants would need to be developed to handle new strains of the virus.
“The pandemic was a special situation and received lots of funding though. In this case, there had been lots of knowledge accumulated of other coronaviruses and that could be quickly used to establish how a vaccine could be developed,” he said.
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Shouldn’t we be amazed? After all, for almost 20 years, the U.S. military has been supporting, equipping, training, and building up the Afghan military to the tune of more than $70 billion. The result: a corrupt mess of a force likely to prove incapable of successfully defending the U.S.-backed Afghan state from the Taliban once our troops are gone that is, by this September 11th.
I mean, what were the odds? All too high, I’m afraid, given the US military’s record in Afghanistan and elsewhere in these years. (Think about the collapse