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Give Peace A Chance
Give Peace A Chance
By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank
It was TACO Tuesday again in the United States this week as President Trump announced that he was pausing Operation Freedom “for a short period” after it had been underway for just one day. Channelling John Lennon, Trump indicated that progress in negotiations with Iran had convinced him to ‘give peace a chance’, but that the US blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place for now.
The Dow Jones, S&P500 and NASDAQ all closed higher and US stock futures...
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