Machado appears in Caracas and Musk seeks to oust Starmer.
Andrew Sheves Good morning and Happy Friday. Two quick headlines today.
🇻🇪 Venezuelan opposition leader MarÃa Corina Machado appeared at a rally in Caracas on Thursday and was briefly detained by police. Machado has been in hiding since July’s rigged election and appeared a day before President Maduro’s inauguration, planned for today (Friday). Machado and her exiled running mate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia remain highly popular in Venezuela and her quick release indicates that she is still a great threat to Maduro’s government which the US and other countries fail to recognize. [More - Washington Post]
🇬🇧 Elon Musk is reportedly strategizing on ways to oust British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer. Unlike his support of Donald Trump as a US citizen, any intervention by Musk in elections in the UK and Europe would class as foreign interference. [More - Reuters]
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On to the numbers
Key Metrics
WTI is $74.31 (Down)
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Wheat is $185.735 (Down)
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EuroDollar is $1.03 (Down)
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YuanDollar is $0.14 (Unchanged)
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Graphs are illustrative to show comparative price over last 180 days
Metrics via AlphaVantage updated Jan 09 2025 21:16 UTC
Africa Stability Ratings and News Summary
More Unstable
🇩🇿 Algeria, 🇦🇴 Angola, 🇧🇯 Benin, 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso, 🇧🇮 Burundi, 🇨🇲 Cameroon, 🇨🇫 Central African Republic, 🇹🇩 Chad, 🇰🇲 Comoros, 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic Of The Congo, 🇩🇯 Djibouti, 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea, 🇪🇷 Eritrea, 🇸🇿 Eswatini, 🇪🇹 Ethiopia, 🇬🇦 Gabon, 🇬🇠Ghana, 🇬🇳 Guinea, 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau, 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast, 🇰🇪 Kenya, 🇱🇸 Lesotho, 🇱🇷 Liberia, 🇲🇬 Madagascar, 🇲🇼 Malawi, 🇲🇱 Mali, 🇲🇷 Mauritania, 🇲🇺 Mauritius, 🇲🇿 Mozambique, 🇳🇪 Niger, 🇳🇬 Nigeria,
Carpe tomorrow!