Terrorism and Russia Conflict Are Top Threats to Global Markets, Say Investors
Ukrainian servicemen fire a mortar from their position near the eastern Ukrainian village Pisky, Donetsk region at the position of pro-Russian separatists at Donetsk airport on Dec. 8, 2014.
Photographer: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty ImagesTerrorism and the Russia-Ukraine conflict are the biggest geopolitical threats to world markets, according to a Bloomberg Global Poll of investors, analysts and traders.
Asked which of nine possibilities posed the greatest risk to financial markets, twenty-six percent of respondents singled out global terrorism, the same percentage that said the conflict in eastern Ukraine between government troops and separatist rebels was the top threat. Fifty-two percent of Bloomberg subscribers polled said that the threat to markets from geopolitical instability is rising, up from 46 percent in November. Only 4 percent forecast a drop, according to the quarterly survey.