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Global

15th March, 2022 » New world (dis)order

What will the post-conflict world look like? What lies beyond the immediate “Warcession” discussed yesterday? This short piece describes the…

Europe

14th March, 2022 » Warcession

The EU authorities are in denial. This is bad for equities, north-south EU bond spreads, high-yield bonds and the euro.…

Global

7th March, 2022 » The war logic

Equity markets are likely to continue to go lower. The US dollar will be stronger. Commodity prices will stay high.…

China

3rd March, 2022 » Behind the arras

China’s “twin sessions” of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference…

Russia

23rd February, 2022 » Putin’s primer

Our Russia hedges (long energy, agricultural commodities and gold, short bonds, equities (EU focused etc.) have worked well. A market…

Russia

20th February, 2022 » From Russia with War

Mostly and most investors view geopolitical events as of little relevance to economies and markets. In the case (60% probability)…

Global

14th February, 2022 » More agro

The latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) continues to support…

Global

14th February, 2022 » Notes to myself

Four things in case I forget… Russia, the structural demand shift to manufactured goods, synchronised monetary tightening and Covid. All…

UK

28th January, 2022 » Killing me softly

The UK has had a bad pandemic. The economy shrank more than other G7 members and the country has only…

Global

27th January, 2022 » Bottom’s up

More than 90% of the world’s transoceanic data traffic travels in cables at the bottom of the sea. Satellites carry…

Italy

5th January, 2022 » Mario stepping up?

The Italian presidential election is looming and the current PM, Mario Draghi, is the leading contender. While his appointment to…

Global

13th December, 2021 » Warm Santa images

Christmas mines images from childhood. There is one in my mind that is more like Chirico than Santa. The colours…

US

7th December, 2021 » Burnt toast

The unequal distribution of US household assets is a reality. The pandemic was never going to change that. But measures…

US

23rd November, 2021 » The Fed nominations

President Biden’s decision to re-nominate Jerome Powell as Chair of the Fed governing board removes some uncertainty but doesn’t alter…

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