Forex Contradictions President Donald Trump may not understand the complexities of currency valuations, but he knows their importance. His concurrent chastising of foreign governments for manipulating those values while making threats against the dollars’ worth not-withstanding. China has its own conflicts. President Xi Jinping reportedly believes the renminbi should be stronger due to the superiority of his country’s economy, but demurs to the cost of a strong yuan to exports. Currency traders scratch their heads. All governments are trying to currently free-ride their way out of COVID-recessions. “Command and control” China lacks transparency and jails dissidents (see Ren Zhiqiang); while western democracies lack...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.