The World Next Week - Forward-looking Intelligence from Oxford Analytica

key strategic challenge

Avoiding civil war in Lebanon

Two rival governments can be expected to emerge in late November, in an echo of 1988.  

by the numbers

Gold rush

Gold Prices

There is a port in this market maelstrom: bullion.

shorts

Burma: imminent crackdown

The Saffron Revolution will be suppressed brutally.

A future for organised labour?

The UAW wanes, but there is surging service industry union membership.

Brown's dilemma

The UK prime minister has been deliberately vague on the timing of an election.

one week later....

Developments, September 15 - 21

All eyes on Musharraf

Supreme Court decision imminent

Deadlock over Gabala

No resolution of radar dispute

Pressure on UK farmers

Bluetongue disease strikes

Jargon Buster

Computer models loose on Wall StreetSubprime semantics

Europe has myriad virtuous euphemisms for its own sub prime lending«