Markets

Uncertainty Impacting the Markets

Markets
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Markets don’t perform well, dealing with uncertainty, and there’s plenty of it at midweek. Wall Street CME Group in Chicago facing uncertainty from multiple fronts.

Usually it’s maybe one major world event or perhaps a domestic issue here, but as we head to March, markets dealing with tariff uncertainty, ongoing and escalating tensions with Iran, weather in the Northeast, and a never-ending AI fears. That VIX or fear index, considered neutral when it’s around 15 or 16, has been closer 2021 this week. Crude oil near seven-month highs.

Uncertainty Impacting the Markets

Audio Reporting by Mark Oppold for Southeast AgNet.