Second quarter 2018 - The Guiding light

The Guiding Light holds the title of the longest - running soap opera of all time. When it was canceled in 2009, it had tallied 18,262 episodes over 57 seasons. The show started its run in 1952 – coincidentally at the height of the Korean War, a soap opera in its own right that continues on to this day (an armistice was agreed to in 1953 but no peace treaty was ever signed). The Korean plot thickened this past quarter, surrounding the much - hyped Singapore summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jung Un. First it was on, then it was off. Ultimately it took place, with both sides vowing to work toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. A disarmed North Korea would be historic and its re - admittance to the global economic community would be constructive – at the very least reducing a persistent risk to financial markets over the last couple decades. But this plotline will likely be long and twisting.