Friday, 27th of April 2018 Spring is well entrenched all around us. And, it is true, Spring is a time of renewal and growth. If you had a doubt, see the two Korean leaders planting a tree together, peek at the US Dollar which has taken off (at last!), with the DXY index shooting up to 91.56...
Friday, 11th of May 2018 Another « breath-taking week » has passed, or nearly,… Donald Trump has pulled the USA out of the Iranian Nuclear agreement. This act was clearly not aligned with the other signatories to this deal. Disarray among the powers of the world doesn’t appear to be good,...
Friday, 25th of May 2018 The “Event of the week” is clearly Trump’s decision to forsake a Nobel- President Trump’s summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is off, for now. In any business deal – and this is one way to look at the once-scheduled meeting between the two heads of...
Friday, 15th of June 2018 It is Friday yet again, mid-June and we feel revendicated- The Dollar index is touching on 95, the high for the year and looking solid! The combination of an interest rate rise in the US with promises of more to come this year and the very dovish ECB outlook gave th...
Friday, 6th of July 2018 Today is a first! It is day one of what might well evolve into being a new era! The U.S. tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods kicked in on Friday, taking the war of words between the nations into the real economic realm. China implemented retaliatory tariffs...
Friday, 3rd of August 2018 It is Friday again. One would imagine that we would be used to this, as it happens just about every week… This week was relatively quiet under the increasing heat of summer. It is often that we say that this is the worst ever weather, hottest or coldest, wet or dry...
Friday, 27th of July 2018 It is almost the end of July already. The heat of summer has intensified around the northern hemisphere and it may be what has calmed-down the flow of political tweets. Indeed, all of us have tired of them… Junker visited DC and we were told that Europe and the USA ...
