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Greed and fear in the global stock market

by Matein Khalid | Nov 21, 2017 | The Macro View

US and global equities surged on news that the US House of Representatives passed the tax reform bill, Cisco and Walmart posted blowout earnings and a potential bidding war emerged for Fox’s media assets. The rally on Thursday followed a week of carnage in the US high...

Global political instability: a threat to the markets?

by Matein Khalid | Aug 14, 2017 | The Macro View

The old stock exchange cliché goes “markets go up like an escalator, go down like an unhinged elevator”. The world learnt this lesson the hard way as geopolitical tensions between the US and North Korea escalated to nuclear brinkmanship. Trump’s ‘fire and...

France’s election and global financial risks

by Matein Khalid | May 1, 2017 | The Macro View

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 round candidates for the Elysee Palace on May 7th is no longer a systemic risk. This was the...