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The UK is set to unveil a “wholesale change of approach” to post-Brexit trading arrangements between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Chinese suppliers to Nike and Apple are phasing out workers from Xinjiang amid increased scrutiny from western countries.  New research from Italy revives debate over the timeline of COVID-19’s spread in Europe.

Condition Updates

A rundown of important global developments in markets, in business, and region-by-region, as well as statistical risk assessments by country and by US state.

Emerging & Existing Hotspots: Outlook for Political Instability in Latin America

Throughout the world, the volatile combination of the humanitarian and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and unpopular or insufficient government response has stoked anti-government sentiment and increased political instability.  This effect is increasingly on display in Latin America, which has experienced among the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the world, as unrest of crises have roiled Colombia, Cuba and Haiti, and latent political risk threatens in El Salvador, Peru and Brazil.

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