Money, Markets, & Mayhem – What To Expect In The Year Ahead
By Tyler Durden
If you thought 2016 was full of market maelstroms and geopolitical gotchas, 2017's 'known unknowns' suggest a year of more mayhem awaits…
Here's a selection of key events in the year ahead (and links to Bloomberg's quick-takes on each).
January
Donald Trump will be sworn in as U.S. president on Jan. 20.
QuickTakes: Immigration Reform, Free Trade and Its Foes, Supreme Court, Oil Sands, Confronting Coal, Climate Change, Budget Deficit
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 17-20.
QuickTake: Sustainable Investing
Davos, Switzerland.
Finland begins a test of a universal basic income by offering 2,000 unemployed adults 560 euros a month.
QuickTake: Universal Basic Income
U.S. companies will be required to disclose pay ratios comparing the compensation of their CEO to the median pay of employees, in the year starting Jan. 1.
QuickTake: Executive pay
Cigarette plain-packaging law comes into effect in France.
QuickTake: War on Smoking
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision aims to complete an overhaul of capital standards by Jan. 8.
QuickTake Q&A: What Global Bank Regulators Are Fighting About
France is gathering dozens of foreign ministers in Paris Jan. 15 to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
QuickTake: Israeli Settlements
February
Judges may rule as early as February in a U.S. patent dispute determining who invented the gene-editing technique known as Crispr-Cas9.
QuickTake: Gene Editing
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gives the first of her twice-yearly reports to Congress.
QuickTake: The Fed Lifts Off, Barely
Intercontinental Exchange Inc., which runs the daily London gold auction, will start trading a futures contract for the metal in the U.S., part of a battle for control of the world gold market.
QuickTake: Gold's Ups and Downs
The number of influenza cases typically peaks this month in the U.S.
QuickTake: The Flu
March
ChemChina aims to complete its $43 billion purchase of Syngenta, a record acquisition by a Chinese company, by the end of the first quarter.
QuickTake: China Inc.'s Spending Spree
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May plans to trigger the legal process for Britain’s exit from the European Union, starting a two-year countdown for Brexit.
QuickTake: Brexit
Hong Kong’s Election Committee chooses the city's next chief executive.
QuickTake: Hong Kong’s Autonomy
SpaceX plans to launch the Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V moon rocket program ended in 1973.
QuickTake: Elon Musk
Launch of an earlier Falcon SpaceX rocket.
A general election in the Netherlands will be held March 15.
Samsung is expected to unveil its Galaxy S8 smartphone.
QuickTake: Samsung
India Post is expected to start operations of its postal banking system.
QuickTake: Postal Banking
April
The European Central Bank is scheduled to begin scaling back its quantitative easing program, reducing monthly bond …read more
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