By Jeffrey Kleintop
Geopolitical risk has recently returned to the markets in the following five ways:
- Renewed trade tensions between the U.S. and China and the looming possibility of auto tariffs impacting Europe and Japan.
- New missile launches by North Korea.
- The U.S. intensifying sanctions on Iran and deploying a carrier strike group to the Middle East.
- An increasingly unstable situation in Venezuela.
- 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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