Weekly Market Update

Global Market News Global equities make gains Global equities made gains this week. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones both gained 1.52% and 0.96% respectively, while the Nasdaq soared, closing 2.82% up. The yield on the US 10-year Treasury jumped up four basis points to...

The Day After & the Era of Transformation

Here is our take on the articles summarized below:  As the stability of the global economic system is increasingly shaken, more and more potential outcomes are becoming “known unknowns” – fields where an excess of uncertainty challenges our heuristics to...

Weekly Market Update

Global Market News Global equities tumble Global equities tumbled this week as the US reported weak sales data and the Federal Reserve announced it is considering tapering its bond purchases. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones both decreased 0.59% and 1.11% respectively,...

Geopolitical Challenges and Statecraft

The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban this week has prompted a flurry of news and analysis of not just Afghanistan’s instability but also of the fragility of democracy in the Middle East. The US foreign policy approach to the Middle East has been criticized following...

Geopolitical Challenges and Statecraft

The articles we have featured this week touch on several unique topics which have not received much attention in the media as Covid-19 continues to dominate headlines. Water crises in Iran and the Nile River region have stirred up political tensions which threaten to...