Carbon Market News Roundup
We’re pleased to announce that the Fundamental Analytics Carbon Services website is now live—explore insights and tools driving carbon compliance and market access here. The FACS platform, linked to ICE, enables direct EUA trading and streamlined onboarding...
Geopolitics & the Day After
Geopolitical Concerns explores how Gaza’s deepening humanitarian collapse and protracted conflicts in Ukraine and Taiwan highlight the breakdown of rapid deterrence strategies, calling for a shift toward sustained defense planning and urgent humanitarian action....
The Narratives of Market Froth and Resilience: A Period of Interregnum?
When we look at different market sectors (even if we were novice market participants), it cannot escape us that the tech-related sector (which includes communication-related stocks) has supercharged above and beyond the dot-com era valuations, while defensive...
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global Equities Make Gains Global equities made gains this week amid hopes that trade tensions are easing. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended the week up 1.45% and 1.07%, respectively, and the Dow Jones increased 0.94% on the week. The U.S....
Geopolitics & the Day After
Geopolitical Concerns explores how President Trump's second term has triggered a global geopolitical realignment, with Europe forging independent security alliances, corruption undermining EU stability, U.S. foreign aid withdrawal deepening crises in Africa, and...
CROSSROADS: Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa
Here is a summary of the most important events that unfolded last month in the Middle East & North Africa, Latin America, Asia (ex-China/India), and Sub-Saharan Africa, and which may affect economic, financial, and geopolitical issues in the months ahead: Middle...
CROSSROADS: US, Canada, Europe, China, India & Japan
At the Intersection of Geopolitics and Geoeconomics Here is a summary of the most important events that unfolded over the last month in the United States, Canada, Europe, India, China, and Japan and which may affect economic, financial, and geopolitical issues in the...
Regional Market Watch
Welcome to our monthly newsletter which covers key developments in major non-US markets. With this newsletter, we highlight corporate, debt, and monetary policy news in European, Asian, and Latin American markets. We end this piece with a spotlight on commodities....
Geopolitics & the Day After
Geopolitical Concerns spotlight the erosion of coherent global leadership as China's ambitions clash with its limitations, and longstanding alliances strain under transactional U.S. diplomacy. From Trump’s abrupt hardline turn against Putin to Japan’s tense...
Sofocles at the Trading Pit: Stablecoins and Market Oxidation, Part III
I looked to my left, and Aeschylus was pointing to the following graph while asking what the implications would be as Japanese rates are rising. Could the upswing in the Japanese interest rates imply a market dislocation as traders sell US assets to buy Japanese bonds...