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…focus only on immediate interests, its diplomatic interests must look much further. Israel is constantly entangled with global interests (as the globe is defined at any point), seeking to deflect and align with broader global powers. When it fails in this diplomacy, the consequen...

… more attracted and committed to the world system that had delivered all this prosperity. The country would become more global, in a sense, and /ess Chinese. In fact, as China has grown in recent years she has become more global and more Chinese. Growth, wealth, an admixture of...

… conference tomorrow about today’s events. The last two weeks have been a severe setback for financial markets and the global recovery. [1] Today, Italian equity markets sold off sharply and were eventually shut down after the ECB (for now) rejected being the buyer of last reso...

…nd we believe companies with the highest tax rate have the most to gain. We see less incremental benefit to many of the global companies who already enjoy optimized tax rates (22% average tax rate across our coverage), but many companies will have more incentive to bring back Int...

…on of the formidable challenge of sparking inflation expectations after two decades of falling prices. Equities e The global rally in equity markets slowed this week, but did not reverse, on continued concerns about the fallout from a poorly executed Cyprus solution. The Euro a...

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… world now is to encounter in nearly every capital figures who have a different reading of history or the future of the global order. They see the world not as some ready-to-eat American political order but rather as a churning, uncertain, urgently worrying vortex. They wonder: W...

…s conference tomorrow about today’s events. The last two weeks have been a severe setback for financial markets and the global recovery. 1. Today, Italian equity markets sold off sharply and were eventually shut down after the ECB (for now) rejected being the buyer of last resort...

…h more unformed worldview which will ultimately take shape around Xi Jinping’s as-yet- deliberately-vague concept of “a global community of common destiny,” which is now the subject of intense work within China’s think tank community, and with the international academic community...

… developments of 2012: how countries are planning for Independence Day First, a few updates: e It looks like sub-2.5% global GDP growth is showing up in the weak outlook provided by some bell-weather cyclical companies that reported so far (AMD, APD, BHI, CAT, ETFC, GE, GOOG, I...

… reserves are in USD — this would go above 70% - would foreign CBs want to hold this much when the US economy is 25% of global GDP? Yields would need to increase o BAT could get hung up with WTO (3-4 years.) Under BAT, wages are deductible (imported goods taxed as a share of tota...

…-95 8-Dec-80 14-Apr-87 3-Mar-80 14-Mar-00 22-Jul-99 21-Sep-78 19-Apr-99 28-Jan-00 15-Oct-99 Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. Data from 1-Feb-71 to 16-Jun-17. Drawdowns measured from prior peaks and using close-to-close data. Chart 14: On 16-Jun, the SPX had its 11™ c...

…pital and Managing Director Senator, Colombia Senior Editor-at-Large President Group Chief Financial Officer, Alcoa Global Rolled Products Chairman of the Board and Managing Officer Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian...

Exhibit 19: US Equity Volatility Spikes in equity volatility have corresponded with major global shocks. VIX Level 30 () Global Financial Crisis 80.9 ® First Greek Bailout (11/20/08) @) Debt Ceiling, S&P Downgrade, 70 -| Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis G) Greek Default 60 + @...

…s data (used in earlier slides). For more details on underlying assumptions, please refer to Morgan Stanley Research’s Global Outlook piece “Sovereign Subjects: Ask Not Whether Governments Will Default, But How,” 8/25/10. KP Source: Arnaud Mares, Morgan Stanley Research. www.kp...