Will Sensex look beyond geopolitics? Check out data from last 2 decades
Data for the last two decades show globally stock markets have mostly ignored geopolitical conflicts beyond a point. Excluding two instances, markets have not only recovered all the losses but also given positive returns within a month of such e...

Global markets were already skittish over rising interest rates amid higher inflation and high energy prices. Will this conflict escalate and drag down broader markets further and for a longer term? Not necessarily.
Data for the last two decades show globally stock markets have mostly ignored geopolitical conflicts beyond a point. Excluding two instances, markets have not only recovered all the losses but also given positive returns within a month of such events. For example, the Indian benchmark declined 1.2% on June 15, 2020, over Indo-China border tension, but gained 7.6% within a month.

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