Happy Monday. Good Luck out there this week.
Global Spotlight
Brexit D-Day Slides. British Prime Minister Theresa May will try for the third time to get her withdrawal agreement approved by Parliament next week. If she can (and that’s a huge if considering that the House of Commons has already shot down the agreement twice and no substantive changes have been made to it) then the European Union will give the United Kingdom until May 22 to finalize the withdrawal and leave the bloc.
U.S.-China Trade Talks, Continued. We’ll be watching closely a visit by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to Beijing on March 28-29 for signs of progress on a trade deal, especially when it comes to the thorny issue of enforcement.
The U.S. Pushes the Envelope on Taiwan. In another sign of growing U.S.-China frictions over Taiwan, the Trump administration reportedly is giving the green light to fulfill a long-standing Taiwanese request for new F-16 fighter jets.
Bolsonaro’s Battle With Congress. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ran on a campaign to fight graft and appointed the lead prosecutor of the five-year-and-running Lava Jato corruption probe as his justice minister to get the job done.
A Managed Succession in Kazakhstan. The resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev formally ended his nearly 30-year reign as Kazakhstan’s only post-Soviet president.
Post-Coup Politics in Thailand. Thai voters will go to the polls on March 24 for the first time since a 2014 military coup put a pause on civilian rule.
Stratfor.com
Economic Calendar
Briefing.com has a good U.S. economic calendar for the week. Here are the main U.S. releases.
Briefing.com
Last Weeks Numbers
Review Last weeks numbers here.
Earnings
Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S
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