Shorts – Summaries

The Day Today 13th February 2024

The heads of the CIA and Mossad are due to hold talks with Egyptian and Qatar officials today in an attempt to revive negotiations on a deal to halt the Israel/Hamas war. The EU is preparing sanctions on three Chinese and one Indian company because of their links to Russia. Softbank share price climbed as…

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The Day Today 12th February 2024

The Israeli military announced two hostages seized by Hamas were rescued in a “complex operation” in the heart of Rafah. Egyptian officials have told Israel they will not oppose an operation in Rafah as long as it avoided high civilian casualties according to Israel’s Army Radio. RBNZ Governor Adrian Orr said inflation was still too…

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The Day Today 9th February 2024

President Biden said “my memory is fine” as he shouted at reporters after a US Department of Justice report said the president’s “memory was significantly limited”. BOE Haskel, who voted to raise interest rates last week, said of falling inflation “I don’t think we’ve seen quite enough signs yet”. Global cocoa prices have hit a fresh…

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The Day Today 8th February 2024

SoftBank’s Vision Fund posted its biggest gain in almost three years while the SoftBank Group reported its first quarterly profit in more than a year. China consumer prices fell by the most on an annual basis, -0.8%, since 2009 while producer prices fell for the sixteenth month in a row. China Securities Regulatory Commission chief was replaced. US strike on Baghdad “in response…

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The Day Today 7th February 2024

Economist Arthur Laffer warned of a “decade of debt” where some countries will face “a slow fiscal death” and the only way to solve the issue is either “raise taxes or grow your economy faster than debt is piling up”. ECB Schnabel told the FT “We must be patient and cautious because we know, also…

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