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Hello, this is Leonie Kidd writing to you from Singapore, and it’s day two of the CONVERGE LIVE event.

Today’s headline act was former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who made his first comments on the conflict in the Middle East and the troubled path to peace.

The fragility of the extended ceasefire is also keeping markets on edge, with choppy trading in Asia feeding into the opening calls for Europe and the U.S.

My key takeaway from this trip? Uncertainty is uncertainty, and no matter where you are in the world, people have accepted this as the new reality.