Salient to Investors: Christine Lagarde at the IMF said: The global economic outlook is less positive than in April but is still in recovery, and improved from a year ago. IMF growth forecasts for Hong Kong have not changed. The financial crisis left more major scars and legacies that the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: IEA said global oil demand growth in 2014 will be the weakest since 2011, as the US shale boom causes oil production from non-OPEC rises by the most since the 1980s. China will account for 11%, the US 21% of demand in 2014. Mike Wittner at Societe
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Dr Afzal Ashraf at RUSI writes: The threat of IS appears greater and the situation more pessimistic than it is. IS is militarily weaker than it appears, and its ideology has received a potentially fatal wound. The US has decapitated almost all of al-Qaeda’s leadership and most
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The purpose of ISIS’ execution videos was to provoke the US and it worked. Al Qaeda tries to appeal to all Muslims while ISIS is distinctly sectarian and anti-Shiite and hostile to Kurds, Christians and many others in the Middle East – if they all fight in
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: ISIS is the most significant terrorist organization we have ever faced, becoming what al Qaeda always wanted to be – ISIS is developing a very large, deep and sophisticated base with the ability to sell oil and wheat at a bargain. Mao Tse Tung
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Mark Lynch at George Washington University said history shows that in a chaotic, violent civil war such as in Syria, US intervention would have had little effect other than to extend and exacerbate the conflict. David Kilcullen at Caerus Associates said American air power will successfully blunt any
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