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| | Geo-politics remain the talk of the financial markets as Trump's rolling circus again came to the fore with his flip-flop-flip over the US-North Korean summit - just a day after Trump cancelled the summit, he declared it back on again. Make what ... |
| | | ... Twitter this time, he penned an open letter to tell all and sundry that what was to become a historic event - a US/North Korea tete-a-tete about peace - on June 12 in Singapore is no more. Trump was correct in saying the cancellation of the summit would ... |
| | | ... NAFTA (North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement) between the US and Canada and Mexico came and went without a deal. The US-North Korea armistice is also looking tenuous, not because of Trump but because North Korea's leader Kim Jung-on threatened to cancel ... |
| | | History was made when North Korean supremo Kim Jung-un took one step south of the Korean DMZ (demilitarised zone) to shake hands with his southern counterpart, South Korea president Moon Jae-in. An epic in itself, it invalidates Rudyard Kipling's (re-phrased) ... |
| | | ... Donald Trump cannot get enough of it. Trump began his war crusade with the media (and fake news), then moved on to North Korea (although this was instigated by Kim's nuclear "exercises"), then trade and China, last weekend Syria (and indirectly Syria's ... |
| | | Raised volatility on Wall Street, North Korea, American protectionism, stagnant wages growth and high household debt levels, rising electricity prices and still elevated property prices - and more recently, Barnaby Joyce - these are a few of (not my ... |
| | | Good, bad or ugly, there were events a-plenty last week for speculators and investors to digest for guidance on what lies ahead. There's the lingering North Korean nuclear threat - although this has barely made it to headlines over the past week; there's ... |
| | | ... versus NATO, Trump versus the NFL, Trump versus Alec Baldwin and more recently, Trump versus the new "axis of evil" - North Korea, Iran and Venezuela (USA Today) - the list goes on. Trump's propensity to alienate almost everyone (including his own GOP ... |
| | | Oh drat! There were few events last week to provide a nice entry point to equity markets, ones that could instil caution, if not fear, enough for some to trim their holdings and cheapen share prices. But alas! Most share markets closed stronger. These ... |
| | | Unless North Korean tensions escalate beyond the "missile testing" tit-for-tat, it'll be the Fed that will occupy financial market consciousness this week. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will start their two-day deliberations on monetary policy ... |
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