Korn Ferry: The Mental Health Toll of Working in Isolation

By SIMON CONSTABLE

The company needed to keep operating while having many of their staff self-isolate to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The big plan was to make sure the supply chains and other operations ran efficiently despite shortages. Only managers kept making one critical assumption: the at-home employees would keep handling their tasks as if nothing in the world had changed. Read more here.

Forbes: Coronavirus Lockdowns To Cause ‘Unprecedented’ Hit To World Oil Demand, Report Says

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Oil traders should look out below!

The COVID-19 Pandemic is set to cause an ‘unprecedented’ drop in the volume of oil the world consumes this year, experts say. Read more here.

John Batchelor Show: Emerging Markets in a "Quad 4" pandemic

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Forbes: Brace Yourself For Another 33% Drop In The Price Of Crude Oil

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Look out below. Oil prices are set to fall further.

That’s saying something because on Monday they dropped around 20% during the session to around $34 recently down from $57 a year ago. Read more here.

WSJ: What Is Quad 4?

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

When inflation and GDP growth are slowing, the U.S. economy is in Quad 4, according to Hedgeye Risk Management. Read more here.

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WSJ: A Nasdaq ‘Covered Call’ ETF Grows

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Assets in Global X Nasdaq 100 Covered Call have almost tripled since the start of 2019, as more investors look to hedge their bets. Read more here.

WSJ: Emerging Markets Lose Money, Get More

By SIMON CONSTABLE

A net $41 billion has flowed into emerging-markets equities funds in the two years through December 2019, coinciding with a period of significant underperformance. Read more here.