Fortune (October 30)
Tags: 45%, BYD, Cheaper, Chery, China, EU duties, Europe, EV market, Geely, SAIC, Sales, Tariffs, Tripled
Politico (October 25)
Tags: Confidence, Crises, Debt crisis, Dragged, Economy, EU, Europe, Fiscal, France, Malaise, Powerful, Sickest, Social, Spoiled, Vicious cycle
The Guardian (October 23)
Tags: Cold, Continent, Electoral supercycle, Europe, France, Future, High school, Nationwide, Redefine, Sentiment, Sneezed, Social contract, Solutions, Unrest, Wave, Young people
The Economist (October 17 Edition)
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much risked by one man for so little. Donald Trump is threatening to cripple Ukraine in its fight for survival—and to expose Europe to Russian aggression—seemingly for the pitiful prize of minimising his losses in next month’s midterm elections. The hard question is what Ukraine and its allies should do.”
Tags: Cripple, Elections, Europe, Fight, Human conflict, Losses, Pitiful prize, Risked, Russian aggression, Survival, Threatening, Trump, Ukraine
The Times (October 10)
Donald Trump’s “thirst for diesel and votes” is giving “succour” to Putin. “Although Britain and its European allies cannot undo Trump’s short-sighted deal, they can refuse to let it dictate the future of Ukraine. If Washington is prepared to weaken the pressure it puts on Putin, Europe must strengthen it. Appeasement is not a strategy.”
Tags: Allies, Appeasement, Diesel, Europe, Putin, Short-sighted, Succour, Thirst, Trump, UK, Ukraine, Votes
Wall Street Journal (October 7)
“France is on the precipice of a dangerous financial spiral. The global surge in interest rates has exposed the country, once considered an oasis of relative stability in Europe’s financial markets, as one of the continent’s weakest links.”
Tags: Dangerous, Europe, Exposed, Financial spiral, France, Global surge, Interest rates, Markets, Oasis, Precipice, Stability, Weakest link
New York Times (October 2)
President Trump is now “threatening to ban or restrict the export of diesel from the United States, which is the top supplier to more than a dozen countries including Mexico, Canada and much of Europe. Oil executives and world leaders are issuing increasingly dire warnings that the result could be global price spikes on everything from groceries to jet fuel.” The only nation with spare capacity to process more diesel is China, but analysts believe “China has started again to restrict some of its sizable exports of refined crude products including diesel.”
Tags: Ban, Canada, China, Diesel, Dire warnings, Europe, Export, Global price spikes, Groceries, Jet fuel, Mexico, Oil, Restrict, Spare capacity, Threatening, Top supplier, Trump, U.S.
Reuters (September 11)
“Analysts at JPMorgan now expect eight of the nine developed-market central banks to hike interest rates by the year end, including the Fed, BOJ, all four central banks in Europe, and the reserve banks of Australia and New Zealand.”
Tags: Analysts, Australia, BOJ, Central banks, Developed market, Europe, Fed, Hike, Interest rates, JPMorgan, Reserve banks, Year end
Market Watch (September 6)
“The U.S.’s status as a financial safe haven has begun to clash with President Trump’s growing barrage of economic and military threats to advance his agenda.” There seems be a common fear behind the Netherland’s recent withdrawal of reserve gold from the U.S., the drawdowns of France and Germany’s U.S.-based reserves, and a current plan in Norway to cut Treasury holdings. Basically, what’s to stop Trump from simply seizing their assets? His “sweeping tariff fight shocked the world last year. Then came the capture in January of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, February’s launch of the U.S.-Iran war, and plans in late August to control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil. In between, there’s been taunting of European and NATO allies, a campaign to takeover over Greenland and its natural resources and, lately, an escalating U.S.-Canada trade war.” So even if seizure sounds far-fetched, it is a legitimate risk for central banks to mitigate.
Tags: Allies, Assets, Barrage, Canada, Capture, Clash, Economic, Escalating, Europe, Fear, France, Germany, Gold, Greenland, Iran war, Maduro, Military threats, Nato, Netherlands, Norway, Reserves, Risk, Safe haven, Seizing, Seizure, Tariff, Taunting, Trade war, Treasury, Trump, U.S., Venezuela, Venezuelan oil, Withdrawal
The Times (September 4)
“Russia was caught in the act in its attack on Leipzig airport and Europe’s reaction simply confirmed its increasing solidarity.” It is true that “Russia would be hard put to mount a major attack against Nato now” with “its strength drained by the war.” Still, “the threat from Russia is real. With decisive victory on the battlefield eluding him, and with the war’s effects now being felt across his vast domain, Mr Putin may, like many a gambler before him, decide to double down. If that happens, Nato must be ready.”
Tags: Attack, Battlefield, Caught, Decisive, Europe, Leipzig airport, Major attack, Nato, Putin, Reaction, Real, Russia, Solidarity, Strength, Threat, Victory, War