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When you throw pebbles in a pond, you get splashes and ripples, but drop a huge rock, you create a mini Tsunami. Similarly Geo-political turmoil, are potent enough to create tsunamis in financial markets, even if its for the short run. It has in the past, and it will in the future. De-stabilised Middle East, rise of new power in Saudi Arabia, aggressive China, Russia-US tensions, Turkey-Russia escalation, rise of autocratic but nationalists leaders such as Modi in India, Trump in United States, bin-Salman in Middle East, the Geo-Political unease hasn't been this tense in decades, so as a market participant you can never care less than ever.

Global Geopolitics Series

60 years ago, Suez crisis set a dangerous pattern for Western military intervention

Oct 31, 2016 17:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views

By a delicious irony, UK prime minister Anthony Edens disastrous Suez adventure in 1956 coincided with the withdrawal from publication of Sir John Seeleys classic text of British imperialism, The Expansion of England....

Global Geopolitics Series

Twin suicide bombings in Pakistan point to deep security problems

Oct 31, 2016 10:40 am UTC| Insights & Views

The continuing prevalence of violence in Pakistan has been reinforced recently with the mass murder of at least 62 police trainees and wounding of nearly 100 others in Quetta in the troubled province of Baluchistan. In...

Global Geopolitics Series

The spectre of a hard border is not just an Irish problem, it looms across Europe

Oct 30, 2016 23:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views

The future of the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland after Brexit is proving to be a complex political problem. As negotiators aim to avoid a new hard border between the two jurisdictions, their...

Global Geopolitics Series

Obama's Nobel-winning vision of 'world without nuclear weapons' is still distant

Oct 30, 2016 23:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Even now, Barack Obama is being hailed as a transformer for the vision of a world without nuclear weapons he articulated during his first year in office. The 44th US president has left an indelible mark on the nuclear...

Global Geopolitics Series

Is the Islamic State finished? Five possible scenarios

Oct 28, 2016 10:32 am UTC| Insights & Views

Most military analysts believe its only a matter of time before Mosul falls. Mosul is Iraqs third largest city. The Islamic State captured it in June 2014 during a campaign that left it in control of territory the size...

Global Geopolitics Series

Global Geo-political Series: Key takeaways from Putin at Valdai International discussion

Oct 28, 2016 09:23 am UTC| Commentary

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the final session of three-day Valdai International discussion clubs 13th annual meeting in Sochi. In the three-day meeting titled, The Future in Progress: Shaping the World of...

Global Geopolitics Series

Who are the Walloons – and why are they blocking Europe's free trade deal with Canada?

Oct 27, 2016 05:16 am UTC| Insights & Views

Europe, it seems, has been looking in the wrong place to understand its malaise. At different points in the past couple of years, the Poles, the Hungarians and, of course, the British have been singled out as the principal...

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Economy

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Politics

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What early 2024 polls are revealing about voters of color and the GOP

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Science

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One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies do not seem to add up. Galaxies rotate much faster than predicted by applying Newtons law of gravity to their visible matter, despite those...

Why are algorithms called algorithms? A brief history of the Persian polymath you’ve likely never heard of

Algorithms have become integral to our lives. From social media apps to Netflix, algorithms learn your preferences and prioritise the content you are shown. Google Maps and artificial intelligence are nothing without...

IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects

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The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup

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Dark matter: our new experiment aims to turn the ghostly substance into actual light

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Technology

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Tesla Cybertruck Trails Ford F-150 Lightning in Sales as Q1 Figures Disappoint Wall Street

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Bitcoin Developers Tease Major Trigger for Next Bull Run: Programmability Upgrade

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