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Cool Heads Will Prevail in Climate Change Disagreement

President Donald Trump has declared that the United States will withdraw from the historic COP21 Paris Agreement in its current form, as brokered by the United Nations Framework on Climate Change in December 2015.

With an objective to stem the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, the landmark Paris Accord saw 195 countries set their own targets in mitigating the drastic impacts of climate change. Despite expert advice from global leaders and heads of industry to uphold the original agreement, President Trump has fulfilled a campaign promise to renege on the previous administration’s commitments to climate action and pave the way for new negotiations to take place.…

What to Expect from a Trump White House

Welcome to a new era in history. Donald Trump is officially the 45^th President of the United States of America and yet the question remains – what kind of President will he become?

Since President Donald Trump’s election win, the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Index and the Nasdaq Composite have all reached record highs. Business confidence and economic growth prospects in the United States have soared on commitments to cut corporate taxes, deregulate industry, increase domestic spending and ramp up infrastructure investment. The rest of the world are also enjoying this bull market as Britain’s FTSE 100, Germany’s DAX and the French CAC 40 are all rising on investors’ expectation that the ‘Trump-trade’ will boost global economic growth.…

Beyond the US Election

On January 20th 2017, Donald J. Trump will be the new President of the United States of America. After years of intense campaigning and an election result met with both jubilation and disappointment at home, global financial markets quickly went into a frenzy of volatility and uncertainty. This is to be expected while the world determines whether the US President-elect’s policies match his often-divisive campaign rhetoric.

An extraordinary time for global financial markets, Trump’s victory saw investors flee to and return from safe haven assets as they considered the implications of such a historic event. Overnight traders from New York to Hong Kong were caught off guard by a result that defied all odds and polls.…