Friday, 14th of February 2020 “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” – John Maynard Keynes ________________________________________ Happy Valentine’s Day to all of our readers! Love is in the air and we hope that you find a suitably kitsch way to celeb...
Friday, 7th of February 2020 ”Are you allowed to impeach a President for gross incompetence?” – Donald Trump (about Obama) in 2014 _______________________________________ Markets have been in recovery mode for much of the week as investors bet on central banks being able to immunis...
Friday, 31st of January 2020 “The epidemic is a devil. We cannot let the devil hide.” – Xi Jinping ________________________________________ Markets were choppy this week as the novel coronavirus spread beyond China and the first human-to-human transmissions were reported in Germany...
Friday, 24th of January 2020 “It’s freezing in New York – where the hell is global warming.” – Donald J. Trump ________________________________________ The great and the good (and various hangers-on) have been meeting in Davos for the past week to mingle, drink champagne, and ...
Friday, 17th of January 2020 ”Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but talk about me.” – Vladimir Putin _______________________________________ The big news this week was ratification of the ‘phase one’ US-China trade agreement, which was signed to much fanfare at the Whi...
Friday, 10th of January 2020 ”You can’t do a damn thing!” – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (After Trump threatened to retaliate for the US embassy attack) ________________________________________ The new year has started off with a bang as simmering US-Iran tensions exploded to the fore las...
Friday, 20th of December 2019 “Christmas: the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating candy out of socks.” – Anonymous ________________________________________ Stock markets continued to rally strongly this week as positive trade headlines brought Christmas che...
