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Highlights of the week in finance, investment, emerging-markets, risk, and crypto markets from Lima Charlie Business Intel. This week’s report covers Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ontario, Norway, Bahrain, Persian Gulf, Greece, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Iran, China, Zimbabwe, the Philippines, Brazil, Russia,… Keep Reading
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China’s Rise: Needs Must When The Devil Drives. While America, and Europe along with it, focuses on the Trump administration’s hawkish tendencies towards the Middle East, Russian influence, and far right fringes in Europe, China is changing the Eurasian geostrategic landscape, one infrastructure project at… Keep Reading
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As the U.K. celebrates its final year as part of the European Union, it is standing on the brink of a major boost to its economy and prosperity as it awaits the first economic benefit from its rich oil and gas shales. British exploration and… Keep Reading
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Highlights of the week in finance, investment, emerging-markets, risk, and crypto markets from Lima Charlie Business Intel. This week’s report covers Russia, China, Poland, Sweden, the Baltic States, the Arctic Region, Kuwait, Morocco, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Taiwan, Guatemala, Ecuador, Mexico, South America, El Salvador, and… Keep Reading
Highlights of the week in finance, investment, emerging-markets, risk, and crypto markets from Lima Charlie Business Intel. This week’s report covers Venezuela, Russia, Ireland, Peru, Myanmar, China, Japan, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Mali, Cyprus, Turkey, the Mediterranean, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the US. Geopolitics… Keep Reading
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The Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) is a 2.3 square-mile tract of land which holds more nickel, cobalt and manganese than all the deposits of those metals on every continent put together. The CCZ is thought to be rich in rare elements essential for making smartphones, electric… Keep Reading
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According to the IMF, the median debt level for sub-Saharan Africa has risen from 30% to 50% of GDP since 2012. Although this is still low by international standards — U.S. debt is nearly at 106% of GDP — African countries are subject to relatively… Keep Reading
Highlights of the week in finance, investment, emerging-markets, risk, and crypto markets from Lima Charlie Business Intel. This week’s report covers Brazil, the Southern Cone Economies (Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile), the Andean Economies (Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela), the Caribbean, Ghana, Ivory Coast,… Keep Reading
Highlights of the week in finance, investment, emerging-markets, risk, and crypto markets from Lima Charlie Business Intel. 2018 Global Elections to Watch and Their Impact on Emerging-Market Investors Emerging-market investors have their eyes set upon 4 major investments, whose sovereign bonds and corporate stocks are… Keep Reading
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Xi Jinping will soon remove one of the last remaining obstacles to his presidency. Almost certain to be passed by China’s National People’s Congress this week, a legal reform that removes the term limitation on the office of the president, will effectively transform President Xi into… Keep Reading
As a constitutional crisis continues to unfold in the Maldives, India, China and Saudi Arabia have all found themselves in a tug-of-war for influence in the tiny Indian Ocean nation. The crisis first began on February 1st when the Maldives Supreme Court quashed terrorism convictions against… Keep Reading
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Last week January’s jobs report sent markets into a spiral. This week all eyes are on January’s Consumer Price Index on Wednesday and on Thursday’s Producer Price Index. These reports give investors the latest data, and, with a .5% increase in consumer prices in January, are confirming… Keep Reading
Israel’s diamond exchange has launched a digital currency to make trading more transparent and efficient. However, it will take concerted effort to integrate the new technology into an institution that has long been governed by backroom dealing and cash. Transactions in the exchange have… Keep Reading
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is attempting to increase revenue from the 270% surge in cobalt prices in the last year by raising taxes on the metal five-fold. Foreign governments and corporations who benefit from lower cobalt prices have protested the tax hike. Congo… Keep Reading
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Protests have entered their fourth week in the North African country of Tunisia, as thousands have joined anti-austerity protests amid economic hardship. Although there has been unrest in the capital Tunis, with protestors ransacking supermarkets, the contention is more severe in the poor interior of… Keep Reading
SolarReserve is developing technology to make a solar system with 24-hr power generating capacity. The system relies on molten salt for its efficiency. In 2015, SolarReserve opened 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes solar energy facility. It has 1,100 megawatt-hours of energy storage, and the facility can… Keep Reading
