Wrestling with the idea of a new world order? Try European smaller companies

'Let me try to explain the case for calm'

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Macro considerations inevitably play a part in investment decisions, but there is no great reason why they should play a bigger part now than previously, David Walton writes

It is probably 30 years since there has been so much talk about a new world order. Back then, the brouhaha was sparked by a perma-tanned American with a curious hairstyle and an appetite for takeovers. Maybe history really does repeat itself.  As a handful of informed readers may appreciate, I am referring here to the New World Order – capital letters included – as headed by Hulk Hogan. In the mid-1990s, in the most sensational "heel turn" in the annals of professional wrestling, this motley group seized control of the WCW franchise. It may be no mean coincidence that one of Hogan's f...

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