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Letter from Washington

by Pete Davis | Jan 9, 2019 | Political Insider

President Trump’s schedule (EST): 11:30 AM: Signs an anti-human trafficking bill, H.R.2200; 12:00 PM: Daily intelligence briefing; 1:00 PM: Attends the Senate Republican policy luncheon, S-207, The Capitol; and 3:00 PM: Meets with congressional leaders in the...

The Trump White House and US stock market risk

by Matein Khalid | Aug 22, 2017 | The Macro View

Trump’s post Charlottesville remarks, the Barcelona terrorist attacks and Cisco’s results unnerved the US stock market bulls last week. Friday was a surreal moment in the history of Wall Street. It was entirely rational for traders on the New York Stock Exchange floor...

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...

The hunt for value in global equities

by Matein Khalid | Jul 25, 2017 | The Macro View

The US stock market has been resilient to the political and policy firestorms created by the Trump White House. Trump’s failure to enact tax reform or a major fiscal stimulus has restrained but not destroyed the ‘animal spirits’ of the Wall Street bulls,...

What Trump’s political scandal means for investors

by Matein Khalid | May 22, 2017 | The Macro View

Image (c) iStockphoto The financial markets have finally cottoned on to the increasingly sordid political realities created by the Trump White House. Trump could well be impeached for obstruction of justice if he tried to pressure FBI Director James Comey to drop an...