| 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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Former energy minister accused of working with criminals to embezzle millions meant for infrastructure defences
By Christopher Miller in Kyiv
Financial Times, Feb. 16, 2026
Bets against currency have outweighed positive wagers so far this year
By FT
Financial Times, Feb. 16, 2026
Apax Partners abandons offer for FTSE 250 company over ‘challenging market conditions’
By Alexandra Heal in London
Financial Times, Feb. 16, 2026
The U.S. secretary of state said in Budapest that the president was “deeply committed” to the success of Viktor Orban, who has boasted of creating an “illiberal state.”
By Edward Wong
The New York Times, Feb. 16, 2026
By reaching back to Maoist tactics of “rectification,” the Chinese leader is signaling that control over the gun requires a state of perpetual cleansing.
By Lily Kuo
The New York Times, Feb. 16, 2026
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US secretary of state hails ‘golden era’ in relations with Hungary and its pro-Russian premier
By Marton Dunai in Budapest and Henry Foy in Brussels
Financial Times, Feb. 16, 2026
Revolutionary Guards’ exercises in Strait of Hormuz come a day before talks set between Tehran and Washington
By Bita Ghaffari in Tehran
Financial Times, Feb. 16, 2026
Jamieson Greer, a low-key lawyer from a working-class background, is rewriting the rules of the global economy at the president’s behest.
By Ana Swanson
The New York Times, Feb. 16, 2026
President Prabowo Subianto of Indonesia will be among those meeting with President Trump in Washington this week to discuss his Board of Peace initiative to oversee a cease-fire in Gaza.
By Muktita Suhartono
The New York Times, Feb. 16, 2026
GDP and inflation data are due in the coming days, while Walmart headlines another batch of blue-chip earnings
By Caitlin McCabe
The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 16, 2026
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A moment of calm in relations between Europe and the US is a prelude to crises ahead
By Gideon Rachman
Financial Times, Feb. 16, 2026
Thousands of investors in failed lender participating in legal challenge to its 2023 takeover
By Mercedes Ruehl in Zurich
Financial Times, Feb. 16, 2026
As the U.S. message veered from shared heritage and values to shared interests and back again, Europeans wondered what kind of alliance they were left with.
By Steven Erlanger and David E. Sanger
The New York Times, Feb. 16, 2026
The advance of the Syrian Army into Kurdish regions could put nearly all the country under one authority. But it ends a dream of autonomy for ethnic Kurds.
By Carlotta Gall and Hussam Hammoud Visuals Nanna Heitmann
The New York Times, Feb. 16, 2026
Concerns around London’s attractiveness to foreign companies were heightened last year after Shein backed out of a hotly anticipated IPO
By Joe Stonor
The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 16, 2026
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