Europe

The month of February was a mixed to positive among a broad sample of assets.

Via George Friedman and Jacob Shapiro of MauldinEconomics.com,

On Wednesday, Jean-Claude Juncker's European Commission released a "White Paper On the Future Of Europe" which comes at a time of extensive tensions with the departing UK, and which lays out what Juncker believe are the "main challenges and opportunities for Europe in
the coming decade." It presents five scenarios for how the Union could

Earlier today, the world's biggest fast food retailer spooked its investors when it briefly halted trading in its stock ahead of its annual investor day. However, instead of some dramatic M&A deal revelation, McDonalds had a far less exciting announcement: it had decided to go back to basis in an attempt to recover some 500 million U.S. orders it had lost over the past five years to competition as a result of failed attempts to widen its customer base.

Via Peter K of SovereignMan.com,

I’m visiting my brother in Indonesia right now.

Being a good host, he was fixing us vodka martinis, when he realized he ran out of olives.

Both of his drivers had finished for the day so I was expecting him to compromise on the olives.

No need.

He loaded up a mobile phone app and ordered a jar of olives.