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La Suisse est le plus grand transformateur d'or au monde. En 2025 elle a exporté pour l'équivalent de 39 milliards d'or aux USA.Chiffre trompeur. La Suisse est un centre de transbordement pour l'or. Des milliers de tonnes du précieux métal arrivent en Suisse pour être raffinée puis exportées. En 2024 l'exportation n'était que de 5 milliards. Au printemps 2025 les américains se sont approvisionnés en énormes quantités. Ils voulaient ainsi éviter des droits de douane ultérieur. L'affaiblissement du #dollar qui a résulté de cette guerre commerciale déclarée a alimenté la demande d' #or en tant que valeur refuge. #usa #commerce

blick.ch/fr/suisse/les-exporta

Douane: Sacrifier les raffineries d'or pour trouver un accord?
Blick · Sacrifier les raffineries d'or pour trouver un accord?Les exportations d'or plombent notre balance commerciale avec les Etats-Unis. Sur les cinq premiers mois de l'année, la Suisse a exporté du métal jaune vers les Etats-Unis pour 48 milliards de dollars. Est-ce la clé pour trouver un accord avec Donald Trump?
Nonilex

A key US #inflation gauge rose last month as #Trump's #tariffs lifted goods prices

The #FederalReserve’s preferred inflation gauge ticked higher last month in a sign that Trump’s broad-based tariffs are starting to raise prices for many goods.

Prices rose 2.6% in June compared with a year ago, the #Commerce Dept said Thursday, up from an annual pace of 2.4% in May.

#economy
apnews.com/article/inflation-f

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Nonilex

Disruptions extended to the data itself. #GDP, adjusted for #inflation, increased at a 3% annual rate in #Q2, the #Commerce Dept said Wednesday. On the surface, that appears to represent a strong rebound Q1, when output contracted at a 0.5% rate.

But both those figures were skewed—in opposite directions—by big swings in #trade & inventories caused by #Trump’s ever-shifting #tariffs policies.

#economy
Nils Wilcke

Bernard Arnault lance un vibrant appel à Macron: "Nous ne pouvons pas nous permettre de nous brouiller avec les États-Unis", déclare l'un des artisans de son élection dans Le Figaro. Explication: le résultat net de LVMH a plongé de 22 % sur les six premiers mois de l’année, l'industrie du luxe montrant des signes d’essoufflement. La branche Louis Vuitton va ouvrir une nouvelle usine au Texas en 2027. Au temps pour le 100% made in France...

#Politique#Macron#BernardArnault
Futurist Jim Carroll

Megatrend **#20** - Physical-Digital Retail Integration: "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛-𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑒; 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑, 𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛." - Futurist Jim Carroll

(Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series on 30 Megatrends, which he first outlined in his book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times. The trends were shared in the book as a way of demonstrating that, despite any period of economic volatility, there is always long-term opportunity to be found. The book is now in print - learn more at dancing.jimcarroll.com)

Retail and commercial spaces are being fundamentally reimagined, not eliminated. They are being transformed into experience centres rather than transactional environments. The role of physical space in customer journeys is being completely redefined.

It's called The Experience Economy, and involves the introduction to your vocabulary of an entirely new word: phygital. Here's the full PDF report.

What's it all about? Think about how much retail has changed in the last few years with e-commerce and online shopping. Mix in the accelerator that was the pandemic. Add to it faster-moving technology. Bring in the fact that many retail stores are in decline in terms of traffic, design, and layout as people shop in person less. The idea? Change it all up to bring the opportunity of that in-store experience back, but with a twist: stores and retail not just as a place to shop, but as a place to experience.

The result is a global retail landscape undergoing an irreversible paradigm shift from a purely transactional model towards one centered on experience. This transformation is driven by the strategic integration of physical and digital worlds—"phygital" retail.

Physical retail spaces are being reimagined as dynamic experience centers, where the primary objective is to forge deep, emotional connections with consumers.

Bottom line?

Retailers will increasingly function as data companies that also happen to sell goods, because it's all about phygital.

**#Phygital** **#Retail** **#Experience** **#Immersive** **#Technology** **#AI** **#Innovation** **#Commerce** **#Integration** **#Future**

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/07/decodin

Futurist Jim Carroll

𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝 **#19** - Temporal Commerce: "The future of commerce isn't about selling products, but selling time. The winners will deliver value before it's requested." - Futurist Jim Carroll

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(Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series on 30 Megatrends, which he first outlined in his book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times. The trends were shared in the book as a way of demonstrating that, despite any period of economic volatility, there is always long-term opportunity to be found. The book is now in print - learn more at dancing.jimcarroll.com)
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Time is becoming the scarcest resource. Business models built around time efficiency, anticipatory delivery, and frictionless transactions create premium opportunities in virtually every sector.

Let's call it The Time Economy: Navigating the Disruptive Rise of Temporal Commerce. The full PDF report is right here.

pdf.jimcarroll.com/Megatrend19

Consider this reality: In the 21st-century economy, a profound shift is underway. For decades, capital and then information were the most prized and contested resources. Today, a new asset has emerged as the ultimate measure of value: time.

The finite, non-renewable, and constantly depleting nature of time for every individual and organization is elevating it to the status of the scarcest resource. And from this fundamental scarcity, a new economic paradigm is materializing: temporal commerce (or time-based commerce).

What's behind it? There are several key ideas at work:

Frictionless Ecosystems. The elimination of transactional pauses through technologies like seamless digital payments, biometric authentication, and integrated ‘super-apps’ drastically reduces the cognitive and temporal cost of purchasing.

Anticipatory Logistics. The shift from a reactive to a proactive supply chain, using predictive analytics and AI to forecast demand and pre-position goods closer to the consumer, collapsing delivery times from days to minutes.

Autonomous Execution. The deployment of robotic systems—including aerial drones and ground vehicles—to execute the final leg of the supply chain with a speed and efficiency unattainable by human labor.

This trend often seems crazy to most people, but keep in mind that Amazon, as expected, is at the forefront of these trends and innovates at a furious pace. We already have much of the technology, have become used to the idea of a change in how we shop - and are now seeing the arrival of a lot of bold ideas.

#Time #Commerce #Frictionless #Anticipatory #Autonomous #Innovation #Efficiency #Technology #Delivery #Future

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/07/decodin

beSpacific

2/3 is share of #tomatoes eaten in the US are from #Mexico. Price of #fruit is likely 2 rise soon as they fall victim to #WhiteHouse tariffs on tomato #imports: US #Commerce Sec #HowardLutnick said yesterday his dept would scrap 2019 agreement he said “crushed” #domestic producers by lowering prices. #Mexican growers remain hopeful that higher US prices will force US to backtrack: Aftr 120 yrs of binational integration, “there are no countries in the world that can replace Mexican tomatoes"

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Nonilex

The #US & the #EU, a trading bloc of 27 nations that make up the world’s third-largest economy, do a huge amount of #trade in goods & services. Given their close ties, European ofcls had been hoping they could manage to strike a deal w/their Us counterparts to avoid such steep levies.

EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic, has been in regular contact w/the US #commerce secy & trade rep. #EC president Ursula #vonderLeyen has spoken to #Trump. Ofcls thought they were on the cusp of a deal.

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