Uncertainty is the new certainty on January 2, 2019Investors like predictability. This is precisely what they did not get in 2018 and are unlikely to get in 2019 either. The beginning of 2018 seems light years away. Then the IMF promised 3.9 percent economic growth, synchronized worldwide: A real goldilocks’ scenario. Fast forward to the end of 2018: According to Bloomberg, the world’s […]
How ‘America first’ could put America last on December 24, 2018US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of US troops from Syria and scaling down its military presence in Afghanistan has led to the resignations of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and anti-Daesh coalition envoy Brett McGurk, the former sending a scathing letter of resignation in which he argued strongly in favour of honoring international commitments. As far […]