DTEC - Geopolitics: Examining The Top 5 Risks

Geopolitical risk has recently returned to the markets in the following five ways:

1. Renewed trade tensions between the U.S. and China and the looming possibility of auto tariffs impacting Europe and Japan.
2. New missile launches by North Korea.
3. The U.S. intensifying sanctions on Iran and deploying a carrier strike group to the Middle East.
4. An increasingly unstable situation in Venezuela.
5. The fragmentation that may result from the upcoming European parliamentary elections.

There are key geopolitical events on the calendar in the weeks ahead.

(Source: Charles Schwab, various governmental organizations.)

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