Back To The Grind.
The weekend newswires were obviously dominated by the abduction of Nicolas Maduro and his wife during a large-scale deadly US military attack on Venezuela. Trump bizarrely declared US remote sovereignty over the country that supposedly has the world’s largest oil reserves, with zero detail about how this would be accomplished but also refusing to rule out the deployment of American troops on the ground.
It was also heavily implied that either Cuba, Colombia, Mexico or Greenland could be the next cab off the rank for similar treatment.
As stock traders got back to the grind after the holidays…
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