Heady Days For The Market, Maybe, But How Sustainable?

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Aug 16 2025 | 00:24:50

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Show Notes

This is our weekly market update, where we start in the US, cross to Europe and Asia and end in Australia, covering commodities and crypto along the way. Global stocks were flat but still traded near record highs on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held what turned out to be ineffective talks in Alaska over Ukraine. I give the win to Putin, while we saw TACO from Trump. The MSCI All Country World Index consolidated recent gains. It was last flat, just shy of the record level of 954.21 set on Wednesday. The […]

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