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What Geopolitics Mean for Markets: A Conversation with Matt Gertken

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Show Notes

From wars and revolutions to tech advances and trade, developments that play out on the global stage reverberate in the markets, affecting stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, and more. Matt Gertken, chief geopolitical and U.S. political strategist at BCA Research, tracks these gyrations, taking a geopolitical approach to investment recommendations. Barron's Editor in Chief Ben Levisohn and Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin talk with Matt about the investment implications of the war in Iran, the spike in energy prices, and other geopolitical events moving markets in the U.S. and abroad.

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