Publications

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: 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 […]

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: The BlackSummit Team | On: November 21, 2024 |

Geopolitics & the Day After

In this week’s newsletter, we first examine the future of global trade, given the uncertainty around Donald Trump’s return to the White House and growing protectionist impulses around the world. […]

By: The BlackSummit Team | On: November 19, 2024 |

CROSSROADS: Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa

At the Intersection of Geopolitics and Geoeconomics Middle East/North Africa Asia (Ex-China/India) Latin America Sub-Saharan Africa Recommended Reads Trump win heralds higher tariffs for Asian businesses Nikkei Palm oil prices […]

By: The BlackSummit Team | On: November 16, 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 […]