| Cosima F. Barone | Vol. XVII - Issue #246 | Mar. 09, 2018 |
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Global Financial Markets Reckoning
Ever since it bottomed out at the end of March 2009, the overall market capitalization has been reaching out to its March 31, 2000, peak. How will markets react when the debt-stressed consumers decide to bank their gains from the tax cut, instead of spending the money? ... Read more
A Fractured World: Nationalist Insurgency & Trade Wars
Is the global liberal order in danger? After decades when the world has been dominated by the United States as their influence remained unrivaled in so many segments (economy, U.S. Dollar, trade and defense) over the rest of the globe, are there strategic alliances or emerging global trends that could potentially shake the world order as we know it? ... Read more
A Glance At World's Insightful News
In Focus: ECB, EUROPEAN UNION, CHINA, INDIA, ITALY, JAPAN, USA - OPEC & non-OPEC
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The prices index in the Institute for Supply Management’s survey of purchasing executives in the services industry rose to 70.7, from 63 a month earlier
By Matt Grossman
The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 06, 2026
The two allies have been steadily stepping up attacks on Iranian infrastructure and are planning to hit energy facilities
By Dov Lieber and Zvi Smith
The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 06, 2026
Israel claimed responsibility for the death of Major General Seyed Majid Khademi, the spy chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the latest senior official to be killed in the war.
By Amelia Nierenberg
The New York Times, Apr. 06, 2026
Long concerned about geopolitical crises, China redoubled efforts to secure energy security when President Trump started raising the stakes in his first term.
By Alexandra Stevenson and Murphy Zhao
The New York Times, Apr. 06, 2026
Americans are buying second-hand electric vehicles even as the market for new vehicles slumps
By Christian Davies in New York
Financial Times, Apr. 06, 2026
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Wall Street firms have been vying to score a coveted role in the program
By Ashlea Ebeling and Jack Pitcher
The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 06, 2026
Wall Street firms have been vying to score a coveted role in the program
By Ashlea Ebeling and Jack Pitcher
The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 06, 2026
Court documents raise questions about the Argentine president’s statements that he had no connection to the launch of the $Libra cryptocurrency.
By Daniel Politi and Emma Bubola
The New York Times, Apr. 06, 2026
In recent years, the conventional geopolitical wisdom has been that the world order was moving toward three centers of power: the United States, China and Russia. That view assumed that power derived primarily from economic scale and military capability.
That assumption no longer holds. A fourth center of global power is quickly emerging — Iran — that does not rival those three nations economically or militarily.
By Robert A. Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago who studies military strategy and international security.
The New York Times, Apr. 06, 2026
World’s biggest crude exporter to ask Asian customers for around $20 a barrel on top of benchmark prices
By Verity Ratcliffe in London
Financial Times, Apr. 06, 2026
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Deal, valued at $2.9 billion, will expand Neurocrine’s endocrinology and rare-disease portfolio
By Nicholas G. Miller and Xavier Martinez
The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 06, 2026
The chemical, launching first in Argentina, is designed to fight grass weeds in soybean crops
By Patrick Thomas
The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 06, 2026
Global leaders are struggling in their efforts to find a way to end the American-Israeli war on Iran, and they are spooked about what President Trump might do next.
By Michael D. Shear
The New York Times, Apr. 06, 2026
Soleno Therapeutics makes first commercialised drug for extreme hunger caused by Prader-Willi syndrome
By Oliver Barnes in New York
Financial Times, Apr. 06, 2026
Economics, security and domestic politics all point the Starmer government towards Brussels
By Gideon Rachman
Financial Times, Apr. 06, 2026
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