BlackRock: The Asset Management Giant Making Waves Globally

Just weeks after President Trump’s televised table-thumping over one of the world’s most famous canals, the world’s biggest asset manager emerged as a buyer for its strategic ports When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, his inauguration speech raised eyebrows. Among his many incendiary comments was a threat to “take back” the Panama Canal. From 1904-14, the US built the famous conduit for maritime trade that links the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans by bisecting Latin America, then operated the canal until 1997, after which it came under Panamanian sovereignty. But at his swearing-in, Trump effectively re-planted…