This Quiet Market Has Traders on Edge

  • Stock, bond, currency volatility gauges have all tumbled
  • Oil plunge, Fed surprise, weak earnings could rouse investors

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It’s quiet out there. Maybe too quiet.

Even as U.S. stocks and bonds hit one high after another, and skeptics from Donald Trump on down warn trouble is coming, a preternatural sense of calm seems to have descended over financial markets.