Europe

Blain's Morning Porridge, Nov 9th 2017, By Bill Blain of Mint Partners

The UK vs Europe, the best comedy show ever!

“Hold tight, wait till the party’s over, hold tight, we’re in for nasty weather…”

You really can’t make this stuff up. Get out the blunted spoons as the EU demands UK pays to play or forget a December start to real talks. The UK government in disarray. Global investors shaking their heads asking WTF and getting a bit bored and disinterested by it.

It could be a top class comedy.

The overnight fireworks in Japan, which saw the Nikkei plunge by 860 intraday points and sent vol and volumes soaring (before recovering most losses), spooked traders in Asia and around the globe, and U.S. equity futures are red this morning, along with European shares and oil.

Authored by Robert Gore via Straight Line Logic blog,

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