Pinkerton Insights Podcast

Each week, we break down international news into our four quadrants of risk and present ways to mitigate those risks. See below for the key issues from this week’s edition: Market and economic risks: - The Bank of Canada’s governing council recently issued a statement indicating that it would not raise interest rates for a third time in 2017. - Per reports on October 25, policymakers in Japan are considering forcing businesses to use their cash resources to increase salaries and revise fiscal measures to increase growth in the economy. - The European Central Bank has announced a 50% reduction in its bond-buying program, from  60 billion EUROS a month to 30 billion, starting January 2018. hazard and event risks: - Last week, a freight ship sailing from Equatorial Guinea en route to Monrovia, Liberia, was boarded by pirates three days earlier outside the coast of Nigeria. - In Asia, per a report by The Soufan Center, published last week, with the Islamic State (IS) losing territory in Iraq and Syria, returnees