The Wooden Nickel

by The BlackSummit Team | Dec 10, 2024 | 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 as a way to think out loud in public rather than formal proclamations or projections....

Weekly Market Update

by The BlackSummit Team | Dec 7, 2024 | Weekly Market Update

Global Market News Global Equities Extend Rally Global equities made gains his week with the Nasdaq soaring 3.34% while the S&P 500 moderately gained 0.96%. On the other hand, the Dow Jones lost 0.60%. The US 10-year Treasury note dropped to 4.15%, its lowest...

Regional Market Watch

by The BlackSummit Team | Dec 6, 2024 | Regional Market Watch

Welcome to our new bi-weekly newsletter which covers key developments in non-US markets. With this newsletter, we highlight corporate, debt, and monetary policy news in European, Asian, and Latin American markets. We end our newsletter with a spotlight on commodities....

Geopolitics & the Day After

by The BlackSummit Team | Dec 5, 2024 | Geopolitics & the Day After

In this week’s newsletter, we first examine the outlook on global trade, highlighting Trump’s potential trade wars and measures other countries could take in retaliation. Then, we move on to investment insights, from the Fed’s worries about US debt...

Weekly Market Update

by The BlackSummit Team | Nov 23, 2024 | Weekly Market Update

Global Market News Global Equities Make Gains Global equities made gains this week. The Dow Jones and S&P 500 rose 1.96% and 1.68%, respectively, while the Nasdaq increased 1.73%. The US 10-year Treasury note retreated to 4.41% over the week while the price of a...