Elaine He, Columnist

2017 in Charts: Time to Buckle Up

Political volatility shows no sign of abating in 2017.

December 28, 2016 at 6:00 AM UTC

Elaine He is Bloomberg Opinion's data visualization editor. Before joining Bloomberg, she was a graphics editor at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

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That slack-jawed look of surprise investors were making for most of 2016? It's not going anywhere. Political volatility is here to stay.

For almost a third of high-grade credit investors, populism in politics is the biggest concern for the next 12 months, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research report published on Dec. 19. In a similar survey in October, before Donald Trump's surprise election win, fewer than one in 10 had put it as their main worry.