Friday, 13th of July 2018 Friday the 13th… ‘Been there, done that’, it is just another date for a Friday. Looking out our windows we see beautiful blue skies, we hear the summer in the birds chirping all around and we join in their happiness- The world of economics and finance is at last...
Friday, 22nd of June 2018 As June is winding down, we sense a slowing in the rate of rattles to the system. This week afforded us only two “Trump Specials” : more of the same with tariffs against China and then ‘out of left field’, as Americans like to say, a horrific decree on migr...
Friday, 8th of June 2018 We are Friday and are under the sign of the G6+1 as the G7 has been unofficially renamed… There will likely be a chill in the air at Friday’s G-7 meeting in Quebec following President Donald Trump’s decision to press ahead with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports ...
Friday, 1st of June 2018 Yesterday we watched the month of May close with a whimper; the DJIA lost some 250 points, the S&P about 0.70% and the NASDQ some 0.3%. A strange Presidential week not to say month… The meeting of leaders of the US and North Korea was scheduled for June 12, then canc...
Friday, 18th of May 2018 The week opened with the US opening its embassy in Jerusalem and as expected, it caused much noise and turmoil, as well as the deepening fissure between the USA and the EU resulting from Trump’s decision to walk away from the Iranian nuclear deal. The immediate effect...
Friday, 4th of May 2018 What can we say? We are well into Q1 earning season and we have seen essentially better than expected figures being reported: revenues are up across the board, bottom lines are fattening, and outlooks shiny. Geopolitics appear to have calmed down too – North Korea is the...
