Publications
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: December 17, 2024 |
CROSSROADS: Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa
Middle East/North Africa Asia (Ex-China/India) Latin America Sub-Saharan Africa Recommended Reads The Saudi Solution? Maria Fantappie and Bader Al-Saif, Foreign Affairs The surprising stagnation of Asia’s middle classes The Economist Latin […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: December 14, 2024 |
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global Equities Decline Global equities were slightly lower on the week. The Dow Jones and S&P 500 declined 1.82% and 0.64%, respectively. On the other hand, the […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: December 14, 2024 |
Carbon Market News Round Up – December 13, 2024
In the last issue we focused on developments coming out from the COP29 Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, as well as the challenges and glimmers of hope in the fight against climate change. In […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: December 12, 2024 |
CROSSROADS: US, Europe, China & India
North America Europe China & India Suggested Reading China Comes Out Swinging as Trump Trade War Looms Rebecca Feng, Heather Somerville, and Jon Emont, The Wall Street Journal France steps into […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: December 10, 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: December 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 […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: December 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 […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: December 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 […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: November 26, 2024 |
Mystery Over Troubled Waters: Contemplating the Market Outlook Within Oligarchic Trajectories in 2025 (and beyond)
The US government recently won its case of alleged monopolization against Google. Probably the government’s argument can be better understood as a case of a monopoly within an oligopoly (given […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: November 22, 2024 |
Carbon Market News Roundup
COP29 Developments COP29 Negotiators Agree on Global Carbon Market Mechanism John Ainger, Bloomberg The push for climate taxes gets real in Baku Pilita Clark, The Financial Times Four Takeaways from COP29 Week […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: December 3, 2024 |
From Homer and the Tragedians to Virgil and the Market Outlook (2025 and beyond)
In the first part of our assessment for 2025, our emphasis was ontroubling spots that could generate turmoil in the markets (such as oligopolistic and oligarchic structures that cancel market […]