Good morning - I’m transitioning the newsletters to a new system so am resynching everything, meaning that there are no updated country baseline ratings today. (These are still available and cuup to date in the workspace).

Instead, here’s what the updated SITREP metrics will look like.

Key Metrics

WTI is $71.03 (Down)

Low |---- < ---------------| High

Wheat is $197.372 (Down)

Low |-------- < -----------| High

EuroDollar is $1.04 (Down)

Low | < -------------------| High

YuanDollar is $0.14 (Unchanged)

Low |---------- < > ---------| High

Graphs are illustrative to show comparative prices over last 180 days

Metrics via AlphaVantage updated Dec 22 2024 21:58 UTC

For each metric, there will now be the current value, the direction since the previous value (daily, monthly, depending upon the index), and a simple comparative value chart showing where the current value lies compared to the highs and lows of the last 180 days. Hopefully, this is a more valuable and useful set of metrics to help with decision-making.

Similarly, I plan to add a comparative rating scale for country stability ratings from week to week but that is a 2025 project.

I’ll be back with the normal SITREP tomorrow but look out for the change late this week.

Carpe tomorrow!