[ponygirl]

The global markets are spooked because they are seeing aircraft carriers steaming towards the Middle East, while you've heard not a whisper of it in the US MSM. Just check the defense stocks.... going UP, UP, UP.

Do we really want a professional knob polisher as President when Israel/Iran/Ukraine/Russia is about to set off WW3?

[Miami Rebel]

Aircraft carriers? The markets are used to them. This had nothing to do with them

The sell-off was triggered by the bursting of the yen carry-trade bubble. The surging yen clobbered the multinational exporters which are the backbone of Japanese industry and the NIKKEI index.