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Capital markets – the last architecture of global cohesion?

Atlante Figure at Castelo da Pena in Portugal
Atlante Figure at Castelo da Pena in Portugal, representing the blending of human architecture with the natural world. Photo: Getty Images

As geopolitical tensions redraw trade routes and alliances, could capital markets become the connective tissue that still binds the global economy together?

There is a growing temptation to describe the current moment in binary terms; regionalization versus globalization, decoupling versus interdependence.

But capital markets rarely follow clean narratives. They operate in a more ambiguous space, where investor behavior can simultaneously reinforce regionalization and preserve global connectivity.

Capital markets are beginning to reflect

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