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Market Talk- August 2, 2017

  Asia found renewed support from the surprise Apple result with a beat of both numbers and units. A worth note here was the size of options traded upon the...

Our European Tour – Part II – Seizing All Bank Accounts Throughout EU

  Many financial firms in London claim to be looking to move to Frankfurt or Paris with BREXIT. They are going to have a very rude awakening. The proposition...

Erdogan moving Turkey Closer to Dictatorship

Germany is now pushing the EU towards a much more tougher policy in its relations with Turkey as Erdogan moves the country even closer to a full-blown...

North Korea Prepares for World War III

The risk of war with a true madman at the head of North Korea continues to escalate. But is he really mad, or trying to strengthen his position for negotiations...

Market Talk- August 1st, 2017

A solid day for Asia with gains for all core markets of between +0.3% in the Nikkei and +0.9% for the Australian ASX. All sectors contributed to the broad gains...

Trump & Chaos

US President Donald Trump may be a good businessman, but in politics, he just does not get it. Politics is all about ego and back-stabbing. It is not about logic...

Volkswagen & the Risk Behind the Euro

The scandal at Volkswagen AG over the diesel which began on September 18th, 2015, when the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a notice of...

Facebook Shuts Down its AI System

A lot of people are using the issue that Facebook shut down its AI system when it began to create its own language as a short-cut in communication between two bots....

Market Talk- July 31, 2017

Energy, Industrials and Financials were the sectors leading the Hang Seng in todays trading and we highlight those because it closed up almost 1.3%; not bad for a...

Only 37% Believe the Democrats Stand for Something – The Disintegration of Politics

The Democrats are realizing that recent polls show that only 37% of people believe that the Democratic Party stands for something while the rest think they just...