Sixty-First Edition - Monday, 10th Every week, a complete snapshot of what happened around the world in the past seven days Gilets Jaunes Crisis The main event happening in the European area is currently the ongoing protest organized by the so-called Gilets Jaunes. The initial demonstration was against the proposed increase in oil price, but it rapidly gain momentum and became a massive movement against the Macron presidency in more general, including extremists (and non) fro

Sixtieth Edition - Monday, 3rd Every week, a complete snapshot of what happened around the world in the past seven days This year's edition of the G20 summit took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina over the weekend and was attended by leaders and officials of all 19 countries and the European Union. The summit assumed heightened importance in terms of achieving consensus driven multinational political outcomes amidst rising nationalist and isolationist tendencies across major c

Fifty-Ninth Edition - Monday, 26th Every week, a complete snapshot of what happened around the world in the past seven days Saudi Arabia is facing a future of cheaper oil, but for this country, oil could very well be everything. One should bear in mind that the petroleum sector makes up 45% of Saudi Arabia’s GDP. On Friday the oil prices fell by more than 6%, currently standing at below $60 per barrel. After browbeating the US’s Middle Eastern ally in order to prevent oil pri

Fifty-Eighth Edition - Monday, 19th Every week, a complete snapshot of what happened around the world in the past seven days Thursday was a day of political drama in Germany – it was the first time the three candidates to replace Ms. Merkel as leader of the Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Jens Spahn, had appeared together on stage. Ms. Merkel set the process in motion with her surprise decision last month to step down as CDU leader f

It is not surprising that, over the past six months, the Chinese Renminbi experienced a sharp depreciation by an overall 10 percent against the US dollar. However, the currency decline entered in a crucial phase when, at the beginning of last week, on Tuesday October 30th, the 10-year low was hit, taking the Chinese Yuan very close to 7 units per dollar. This value is not per se particularly significant, but it represents a psychological threshold for traders and analysts, an

Fifty-Sixth Edition - Monday, 5th Every week, a complete snapshot of what happened around the world in the past seven days The Russian energy minister Novak announced the country will keep trading Iranian oil and consequently will not back the US for what concerns the sanctions, claiming illegitimacy resulting from the lack of the UN consent to them. Hence, in compliance with the 2014 deal, the trade between Iranian oil and Russian goods and services will still take place, ho

A specter is haunting the world – the specter of Chinese indebtedness. Xi Jiping, president of the People’s Republic of China, has had a rough couple of years. Even without Donald Trump raising the stakes of the trade war day by day, the Communist party leader is at helm of a $12 trillion economy. His goals are not easy: keep growing at the extraordinary pace of the last decades, resisting the physiological slowdown, expand the influence of Beijing all over the world – as a g

Fifty-fifth Edition - Monday, 24th Every week, a complete snapshot of what happened around the world in the past seven days Uber is looking towards the British startup - Deliveroo to expand its presence in the food delivery market in Europe. Uber started UberEats in 2014 and since then the service just like the former has grown at a very significant rate of 200% per year, and is on track to reporting $6bn of revenues this year. The linking of the companies could allow the two

Fifty-fourth Edition - Monday, 17th Every week, a complete snapshot of what happened around the world in the past seven days Last week the tension between current and ex superpowers have become unbearably tense. New allegations from the UK government against Russia directly blaming the GRU (Russian Intelligence) was again met with denial from the Russian side. No one knows where this will lead but the most likely solution would be even more sanctions against Russia, which may

Fifty-first Edition - Monday, 16th Every week, a complete snapshot of what happened around the world in the past seven days The events which have taken place in Syria last week should cause concern in the markets. The Middle-East chessboard is going to be at the centre of the political agenda for both U.S. and Russia as a consequence of the alleged chemical attack in Syria that led to the death of 80 people, including women and children, 40 of whom from suffocations, accordin