Trump trip
Global Equities and Sovereign Debt Prices Drop Further
November 10, 2017
Share prices around the Pacific Rim declined 0.8% (or 187 points) in Japan, 0.7% in New Zealand, and 0.3% in Australia, South Korea and Indonesia. European markets are down 0.8% in Greece, 0.4% in Spain, and 0.3% in the U.K., France and Switzerland, but the German Dax and Milan exchange are unchanged. A narrowly mixed […] More
Soft Tone in Sterling, Sovereign Debt Yields, Oil and Stocks
May 26, 2017
Sterling fell 0.7% against the dollar overnight in response to a new poll showing just a 5-point spread between Prime Minister May’s Conservatives and the Labor Party; the spread earlier had been over 20 points. Britain’s parliamentary election is scheduled for June 8. Sterling declined more sharply against several other currencies, as the dollar is […] More
A Different Trump on the Road
May 22, 2017
The first leg in Saudi Arabia of President Trump’s nine-day foreign trip went well. Gone was the xenophobic tone as his anti-terrorism message focused on Iran instead of Islam as a religion. There weren’t major cultural slips, and large business deals were consummated. Absent, too, were the usual Saturday tweets to add fuel to the […] More
