President Donald Trump’s decisions over the past week are throwing both global equities markets and oil markets into tantrums. Christmas week started with dismal developments in Washington. On Monday, the president and key Democratic leaders argued over the partial shutdown of the government. Reuters said on Christmas Eve that there was no sign of tangible efforts to reopen agencies closed by a political impasse over Trump’s demand for border wall funds, one of Trump’s 2016 campaign pledges. Due to the government shutdown, Trump will stay in Washington over the holidays. On Christmas Eve Trump bemoaned the fact that he had to stay alone in Washington. On Twitter, he wrote: “I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security. At some point the Democrats not wanting to make a deal will cost our […]