In the short term it's nearly all about that black stuff again. With Nigeria and Iran restricting supplies its price will rocket upwards.
Bird Brain is losing the war on terrorism and has put democracy in the Middle East back by decades through his incompetence. Imho he means well but will make a predictable mess of the situation. These factors do influence trading, but more importantly may well be crucial to the survival of the West . There is another major factor on the bigger issue. It is on a knife edge whether the West rejects science for the more comfortable " intelligent creation" philosophy. Should this be the case then we had better get used to being in the camp of the "has beens"
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