A Cheat Sheet on the Deglobalization of the Financial World

From banking credit, bond-market flows to emerging-market capital trends, we present a bevy of charts to sketch the landscape for financial globalization.
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Homeward bound?

From Brexit and rising polarization in Europe to the protectionist rhetoric of President-elect Donald Trump, this year's played host to a series of political ruptures that threaten a breakdown in the existing internationalist order.

Compounded by dynamics that include money-market reforms and banks' rising regulatory costs, that's helping to fan fears that financial markets are poised to enter an era of deglobalization, mirroring the slowdown in global trade volumes.