Publications
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: April 23, 2024 |
CROSSROADS
At the Intersection of Geopolitics and Geoeconomics April 23, 2024 | Volume 7, Issue 4 | The BlackSummit Team Here is a summary of important events that unfolded over the […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: April 19, 2024 |
Geopolitics & the Day After
For this week’s newsletter, we highlight international developments and financial discussion that exemplifies the changing world in which we live. First, we examine Iran’s response to the Israel’s Damascus strike […]
By: Rachel Poole | On: April 13, 2024 |
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global equities Global equities continued their downturn this week amid hot US inflation data and fears of a wider war in the Middle East. The S&P 500 […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: April 11, 2024 |
Geopolitics & the Day After
For this week’s newsletter, we focus on the factors that drive geopolitics, markets, and thus investment considerations. First, we look at the expanding China-Russia relationship against the backdrop of global […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: April 9, 2024 |
The Irreversibility of a Faux Reality: Illusions, Spectacles, and Geopolitical Challenges to Portfolios’ Alpha and Beta, Part II
In our previous commentary, we discussed reality as the trajectory of three parallel lines (markets, geopolitics, and Karl Barth’s writings on creation) that eventually intersect. Since then, the market reality […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: April 6, 2024 |
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global equities decline Global equities declined this week. The S&P 500 lost 0.95% while the Dow Jones dropped 2.27% and the Nasdaq decreased 0.80%. The US 10-year […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: April 5, 2024 |
Fundamentals of Commodities and Their Trajectories
Below is a summary of last month’s commentaries from BlackSummit’s sister company, Fundamental Analytics. The following describes the highlights of those commentaries, which showcase the factors affecting the energy, agricultural, and other […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: April 4, 2024 |
Geopolitics & the Day After
For this week’s newsletter, we touch on topics from tensions in the Middle East, US market trajectory, developments in the Ukraine-Russia war, and investment opportunities in commodities. First, we look […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: April 2, 2024 |
The Wooden Nickel
The Wooden Nickel is a collection of roughly a handful of recent topics that have caught our attention. Here you’ll find current, open-ended thoughts. We wish to use this piece […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: March 28, 2024 |
Geopolitics & the Day After
For this week’s newsletter, our topics include recent developments in global financial markets, great power competition, technology, and global migration. First, we look at some interesting news in the world […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: April 15, 2024 |
Market Rhymes, Geopolitical Reality, Importing 19th Century Russian Populism, and the Irreversibility of a Reverse Categorical Imperative: Investment Options, Part III
Several questions are surfacing following the weekend’s geopolitical developments. Here are a few of them: Has the paradigm of the Middle East conflict been shifted, and if yes, can it […]