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15 December 2017 at 11:25 GMT
South Africa's ruling ANC party is due to select a new leader at its upcoming conference and the current deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has a clear lead at present. But speculation is mounting that his rival, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, may prevail thanks to some unsavoury tactics and friends in high places.
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04 December 2017 at 2:58 GMT
Global Macro Strategist / Saxo Bank Group - Singapore Hub
Singapore
The US has just brought in the wrong sort of reform, which only looks after wealthy people investing passively. Meanwhile gold and silver are in focus, and there's plenty of interesting trends for investors to watch in US shale, and cryptos.
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03 November 2017 at 9:12 GMT
Deputy Head of sales Trading Asia Pacific / Saxo Capital Markets
Singapore
With the 19th Party Congress behind us now, this month’s China macro monthly will focus on digesting what was said and not said in Xi’s marathon 3.5 hour opening speech, who was and was not on the Politburo Standing Committee and how this may impact near-term and long-term growth.
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02 August 2017 at 10:00 GMT
Fixed Income trader / Saxo Bank
Denmark
Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro completed a controversial and disputed vote to further centralise power, which has thrown the country into renewed uncertainty and triggered deadly clashes between protesters and police.
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24 July 2017 at 14:22 GMT
Head of Macro Analysis / Saxo Bank
France
Saxo Bank presents an infographic to help clarify the crisis in Venezuela.
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24 May 2017 at 10:00 GMT
Fixed Income trader / Saxo Bank
Denmark
Brazil could soon face its second presidential impeachment in just two years. Brazilian assets sold off dramatically, and the Brazilian real plunged against the dollar. An impeachment would have far-reaching implications not only for Brazil, but possibly also for investor sentiment across Latin America in the short term.
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19 May 2017 at 7:35 GMT
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An absence of further incriminating evidence against US President Donald Trump yesterday saw a rebound in government bonds as well as a slight recovery in equities, albeit primarily driven by biotech. Meanwhile south of the equator, the Brazilian Real ended Thursday down 9% following news that the country's president may have paid bribes.
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12 April 2017 at 2:21 GMT
APAC Sales Trading Desk / Saxo Capital Markets
Singapore
The Trump administration's stance over Syria and North Korea is the focus of investor caution, with the safe-haven yen and gold both winners.
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31 August 2016 at 22:42 GMT
The Guardian
Brazil’s first female president Dilma Rousseff has been thrown out of office by the country’s corruption-tainted senate after a gruelling impeachment trial that ends 13 years of Workers’ party rule. Jonathan Watts and Donna Bowater write that following a crushing 61 to 20 defeat in the upper house, Rousseff will be replaced for the remaining two years and four months of her term by Michel Temer, a centre-right patrician who was among the leaders of the campaign against his former running mate. In a separate vote, the senate voted 42 to 36 not to bar Rousseff from public office for eight years.
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