John Authers, Columnist

Buying Anything Linked to China Is a Risky Bet

Markets seem to be underpricing the risk of the trade war, but that will change. Also, political uncertainty and the Ides of May.

May 23, 2019 at 12:01 AM EDT

By John Authers

John Authers is a senior editor for markets and Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former chief markets commentator at the Financial Times, he is author of “The Fearful Rise of Markets.”

China President Xi Jinping called on citizens to join a “new Long March." — China President Xi Jinping called on citizens to join a “new Long March."
Photographer: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP

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With the conflict between the world’s two biggest economies over trade and intellectual property intensifying, the markets still seem oddly insouciant. This is how global stocks and volatility have behaved over the last decade — and the market does not appear to be treating this as a major historical event:

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