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Global risks quiet now, but anything could set them off
Compared with many times past, the world has entered the New Year with global risks seemingly under control. The largest geopolitical tensions have dissipated. No one expects a sharp hike in the oil price, a superpower confrontation, a major interstate war, a rerun of the 2008-09 financial crisis, a giant hiatus in economic growth, the dissolution of a country, or the breakdown of a trading or currency bloc. Checks and balances against disasters are in place everywhere. Breathing a collective sigh of relief, market practitioners are appropriately buoyant. For a year now, stock market values have been pushed up above ... (full story)
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