For Discussion Purposes:
Today’s Comparative Global Market Performance as of 1:22PM in NY (per Fidelity)
Top 3 and Bottom 3 Performers shown in Bold
Americas
S&P 500 - 1.59%
NASDAQ - 1.35%
DJIA - 2.02%
Canada - 0.58%
Chile - 1.96%
Mexico - 0.35%
Europe, Middle East, Africa
Eurozone - 3.08%
France - 3.94%
Germany - 3.53%
Italy - 4.18%
United Kingdom - 1.72%
South Africa + 2.22%
Asia-Pacific
Australia + 0.65%
China + 0.81%
Hong Kong - 0.28%
Japan + 1.20%
New Zealand + 2.66%
Singapore - 1.29%
I can understand why Italy, Germany, and France are the worst performers today. I also can understand why South African Gold might be in demand. However, I don’t understand why New Zealand and Singapore are relatively strong today.
As long as my port is outperforming the US averages, I’ll sit tight. However, I’m glad to have reduced the size of some of my bets.
Despite rampant inflation, cash just feels better overnight with death and destruction are being intentionally inflicted upon old women and little children by targeting residential dwellings.
Among the Geneva Convention are the following:
UN Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the 1974 UN Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict state:
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All the necessary steps shall be taken to ensure the prohibition of measures such as persecution, torture, punitive measures, degrading treatment and violence, particularly against that part of the civilian population that consists of women …
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All forms of repression and cruel and inhuman treatment of women … including imprisonment, torture, shooting, mass arrests, collective punishment, destruction of dwellings and forcible eviction, committed by belligerents in the course of military operations or in occupied territories shall be considered criminal. [Emphasis added.]
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docindex/v2…