Growth of M&A Activity Signals Positive Outlook for Oil and Gas in 2017
M&A deal volume in the oil and gas sector (1) increased markedly in 2016 both in the US by 67% (YoY) and globally by 50% if using normalised...
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Trump Not Likely to Halt Decline of US. But Ray Dalio Makes Good Case in Bringing Back Ayn Rand
I was working on a bigger piece on HK vs Singapore which I will put out later, and reviewing political classifications of economies, when I saw a...
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2017 Asset Allocation Outlook – Part 2: Trump Reflation Euphoria to Fade?
The overwhelming investor consensus a year ago was for further EM/commodity downside amid deflation fears - this year it is a USD secular bull and...
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🎺The Maritime Honours List 2016🎺
🎺🎺🎺 The Maritime Honours List 2016 🎺🎺🎺As we near the end of the year, global markets are on a high despite China, Korea, Brexit, Trump, Italy and...
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2017 Asset Allocation Outlook: Part 1 – Emerging Markets and Commodities
Overweighting EM versus DM and global resources/deep cyclicals looked like a compelling contrarian bet coming into Q1 as consensus bearishness...
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