Overview.....
Crude Oil: Up 38% in the past 15 trading days, largest 3-week gain since Aug '90 price shock (Iraq invaded Kuwait).
Commodities:
1) Gold @ 52-week high
2) Copper/Lumber improving
3) Crude: only down 2% YTD
4) Nat Gas @ 17-yr low
Currencies, YTD vs. US Dollar
Higher: Yen, Real, Ruble, Canada/Aussie $, Euro
Lower: Argentine/Mexican Peso, Pound
Equities, % below all-time high
Italy: 64%
Japan: 56%
China: 53%
France: 36%
Brazil: 33%
Germany: 21%
UK: 13%
US: 6%
Global Equities: YTD returns in US Dollars vs. Local Currency...
Turkey ........
Saturday updates directly below
EU more worried about securing a "Deal with the Devil" -than speaking about Turkey demolishing freedom of the press.
View from the office #Zaman #todayszaman
#LATEST All internet connections cut down at Zaman building, trustees begin removal of web content
#Zaman employees begin first day of job after takeover under heavy police presence http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_zaman-employees-begin-first-day-of-job-after-takeover-under-heavy-police-presence_414089.html …
Police set up barricades after seizing opposition paper http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_zaman-employees-begin-first-day-of-job-after-takeover-under-heavy-police-presence_414089.html …
Reactions pour in against gov't-orchestrated takeover of #Zaman daily http://www.todayszaman.com/national_reactions-pour-in-against-govt-orchestrated-takeover-of-zaman-daily_414056.html …
Prominent journalists, press groups show solidarity with #Zaman over takeover by gov't http://www.todayszaman.com/national_prominent-journalists-press-groups-show-solidarity-with-zaman-over-take-over-by-govt_414058.html …
Friday.........
#LATEST Police break cameras at #Zaman to cut live footage from building http://www.todayszaman.com/national_turkish-police-raid-zaman-hqs-fire-tear-gas-on-readers-after-govt-takeover_414040.html …
#LATEST Today's Zaman chief editor says police tried to forcefully take her out of building http://www.todayszaman.com/national_turkish-police-raid-zaman-hqs-fire-tear-gas-on-readers-after-paper-put-under-state-control_414040.html …
#LATEST Police block offices of editors, prevent them from entering their offices at #Zaman http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_police-forcefully-enter-zaman-building-after-government-takeover_414040.html …
Police forcefully enter #Zaman, employees shout 'free press cannot be silenced'
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_police-forcefully-enter-zaman-building-after-dispersing-readers-employees-shout-free-press-cannot-be-silenced_414040.html …
#LATEST Police trying to break gates at Zaman HQs after court appoints trustees
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_police-trying-to-break-gates-at-zaman-hqs-after-court-appoints-trustees-to-take-over-management_414040.html …
#BREAKING Police raid Zaman HQs after seizure, use pepper gas to disperse readers http://www.todayszaman.com/national_court-appoints-trustees-to-take-over-management-of-zaman-todays-zaman_414040.html …
first they came for the kurds but today's zaman just called them terrorists. then they came for zaman ...
Istanbul court to appoint trustees for Zaman, Today's Zaman editorial board - https://cpj.org/x/6776
Court appointed trustee set to take over all Feza Publications media titles, including Zaman, Today's Zaman newspapers and Cihan news agency
Looks like Turkey is the linchpin in "European Consensus" , keep those checkbooks handy..
Next week, I will chair the informal meeting of EU leaders with #Turkey: http://ow.ly/Z4NJm . #EUCO #migrationEU
See UNHCR proposals to stabilize #Europe refugee situation before 7 March meeting of EU Heads of State/Gvt & Turkey http://bit.ly/21JdKBy
Europe......
Spain......
This is also the first time a candidate for PM has failed to receive the confidence of the house in post-Franco era.
https://www.thespainreport.com/articles/672-160302232454-sanchez-came-tried-failed …
PSOE's Sánchez addresses #Spain's parl in last bid to win over his candidacy to form coalition govt w Ciudadanos.
Switzerland.....
Swiss unveil plan for unilateral curbs on immigration http://news.yahoo.com/swiss-unveil-law-imposing-unilateral-curbs-immigration-130900511.html …
Swiss President Schneider-Ammann: If no free movement deal with EU, parliament will vote on whether to unilaterally introduce annual quotas
Refugee Crisis / Border Security ......
ISIS / Al Qaeda recruiting material is being generated every day In Europe.....
#Refugee policy focus of Seehofer, Orban meeting http://dw.com/p/1I7VQ
Fortress Europe: By closing its borders in the refugee crisis, Europe is risking its very future, @derspiegel warns. http://spon.de/aeHhT
Huge money being made off people's misery and desperation misery ...about 6 billion.
UN chief assures Lebanon it has final say over refugee settlement http://bit.ly/1QxE1YQ
Always informative......
Bavarian Governor Seehofer to @derSPIEGEL: "Germany a beneficiary of Balkan Route closure." (In new issue, not from interview on our site.
Slovak PM set for election win with anti-migrant rhetoric http://bit.ly/21JdnH9 #EUwatch
Why refugees crisis could hurt Merkel in state elections http://bit.ly/1Y9Pymj
Migrants head to Normandy ports hunting new way to UK http://www.thelocal.fr/20160303/migrants-head-to-normandy-ports-in-the-hope-of-reaching-uk … via @TheLocalFrance
Entire EU could crumble if we can’t help Greece cope with migrant influx, says Sweden’s PM http://www.thelocal.se/20160304/greece-faces-humanitarian-catastrophe-sweden-pm …
Anti-immigrant AfD party projected to get 19% of the votes in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt
#Seehofer, it seems, doesn't particularly like getting grilled in interviews. @DerSPIEGEL http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/bavarian-governor-horst-seehofer-talks-about-refugees-a-1080132.html …
"The issue of immigration will occupy us for the next 15 years." Horst Seehofer's interview with @DerSPIEGEL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/bavarian-governor-horst-seehofer-talks-about-refugees-a-1080132.html …
Of the approx. 200,000 foreigners scheduled to be deported in Germany, almost 150,000 will be allowed to stay. http://spon.de/aeG9x
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