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Remember this from the IMF? Two out of the three “targets” are included:
“Deutsche Bank is also a major source of systemic risk in the global financial system. The net contribution to global systemic risk is captured by the difference between the outward spillover to the system from the bank and the inward spillover to the bank from the system based on forecast error variance decomposition. Deutsche Bank appears to the most important net contributor to systemic risks in the global banking system, followed by HSBC and Credit Suisse. Moreover, Deutsche Bank appears to be a key source of outward spillovers to all other G-SIBs as measured by bilateral linkages.”
From: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2016/cr16191.pdf

Since the Team Saudi spat seems to be aligned with some particular US and Israeli interests (getting their hands on world’s largest, but Iran-Qatar, owned/controlled gas field: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pars/North_Dome_Gas-Condensate_field), perhaps this spat can be viewed as part of the ongoing economic war of one US deep state faction vs. EU financial interests?

And here, an article on the “boom” in US natural gas sector: http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Natural-Gas-Prices-Poised-To-Rise-As-Exports-Boom.html

Curiouser and curiouser – see second paragraph quoted below from an RT story:
“In a joint ceremony with a local honor guard, Chinese troops last week opened their new naval base in Djibouti, a tiny nation in East Africa which already leases land to several facilities of foreign militaries. The Chinese troops are stationed right next to the Pentagon’s only permanent base in Africa, as well as Japanese, French and Italian forces.

Shortly before the opening, Beijing suggested that it may deploy its troops on Djibouti’s border with Eritrea in the north, where the two African nations contest sovereignty over a mountain and an island. THE HYPOTHETICAL DEPLOYMENT WOULD FILL A VACUUM LEFT BEHIND BY SOME 450 QATARI PEACEKEEPING TROOPS, WHO WERE WITHDRAWN IN JUNE AMID THE KINGDOM’S DIPLOMATIC SPAT WITH OTHER ARAB NATIONS.” (All caps added by me).
So China supports Qatar? And China supports Iran. This would seem to indicate that the cooperation between Iran and Qatar is further progressed than might be publicly acknowledged. And that China is the “glue” here perhaps?
RT story here: https://www.rt.com/news/399217-china-africa-influence-grows/