US & Europe: Divided they stand

Tuesday 18th February 2025

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The whole European defence issue is becoming very complicated. Phil makes sense of it all with NAB’s Tapas Strickland on the day that US and Russian delegations meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss a cease fire deal, without Ukraine present. Worried about their ongoing reliance on the US, EU leaders (and the UK) met to discuss future defence spending, perhaps supported by Eurobonds, hitting existing bond prices and pushing European defence stocks higher. In other news, President Xi met with tech leaders, OPEC+ could be delaying production increases, Japan’s GDP growth is higher than Bank of Japan forecasts and the RBA is likely to cut rates today but NAB says it’s not as certain as markets suggest.

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