Thursday, July 14, 2022
CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: #Markets Commodities drive inflation on both sides of the Atlantic, Chaos in Parliament
Friday, July 8, 2022
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Monday, July 4, 2022
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Sunday, July 3, 2022
Featured in Defence Connect: Sanctions backfire, quite often
From Defence Connect:
More recent opinion research from the Levada-Center has demonstrated that those in Russia who hold the US responsible for the war in Ukraine jumped from 50 per cent to 60 per cent in the three months leading to the invasion.
Perhaps Simon Constable in Time put the sanctions dilemma most carefully under the microscope, noting that “sanctions often prompt a country’s population to rally around the flag”.
“A siege mentality takes over with people banding together to weather the storm.”
Beyond the growth of Russian nationalism, US-led sanctions have forced the Kremlin to build new shadow economic, military and political architectures outside of the US-led international order.
Read more here.
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Forbes: Bearish Sentiment Improves, But Remains Elevated
By SIMON CONSTABLE
Investors remain bearish by a factor of two-to-one. That’s down from recent readings but still elevated, and is possibly a sign that the market is nearing a bottom.
According to a recent survey from the American Association of Individual Investors, 47% of investors were bearish, meaning they expected stocks to keep falling, for the week ending June 29. That’s more than twice the 23% portion of investors who were bullish. Read more here.
Forbes: Energy Crushes Tech In First Half
By SIMON CONSTABLE
Six months and what a difference.
After years of perpetually rallying the tech-heavy Nasdaq has slumped. Actually, it's worse than that.
Yet during the same period, the energy sector has soared. Read more here.
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