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In this week’s update on global asset markets, Matein Khalid considers shale, European equities, and the emerging market of Argentina.
Matein Khalid asks: is the Wall Street sell off just an ephemeral market or something more ominous, a trend change, requiem for the bull market? Plus his latest thoughts on the Karachi stock index and the overvaluation of Credit Suisse shares.
The 11% fall in the price of crude oil in the past month on panic selling in the energy futures pits of New York, London and Singapore has unnerved the world’s leading oil and...
The euro, the French stock market, OAT-German debt interest rates spreads, the Volatility Index (VIX) and the ghosts of Vichy, Oradour and Algérie française convince me that...
The French election is a game changer for global financial markets for multiple reasons. One: the worst case scenario of far right (Le Pen) and far left (Melenchon) as second...
Emerging market equities have been the darling asset class de jour in 2017, mainly in Asia and Latin America, despite the March FOMC rate hike, a US Dollar Index at or above 100...