Markets and the Middle East

As the conflict in the Middle East expands to include Lebanon and Iran, markets are responding with surprising nonchalance. Why? And will this last? Today on the show, Katie Martin and capital markets correspondent Nick Megaw try to understand why so much can go wrong in one part of the world without troubling the rest of the world’s markets. We also go long Vix and short e-cycles.

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