After 20 years in the shadows, the Taliban have returned to power in Afghanistan, raising questions about stability in the Middle East and stoking some potential unrest in U.S. financial markets, amid a weekend that was rife with political developments.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, 1.257% was at 1.27% late Sunday in New York, attracting some haven bids, with prices of government debt rising and yields moving in the opposite direction. The U.S. presence in Afghanistan, spanning the tenures of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Biden, started following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and is now considered the U.S.’s longest military conflict, surpassing World War I, World War II and the Korean War combined.
The Dow is up by nearly 270%, the S&P 500 has gained more than 300% and the Nasdaq Composite has climbed more than 700% since the fall of 2001.Historically, military conflict doesn’t always have an impact on stocks, and war’s influence, if any, on investors’ psyches isn’t always clear-cut. The context and economic and market environments are often a bigger driver.
Still, military aggressions may result in some investors turning to bets on defense contractors, which could see a boost if the animosities flare up. One popular way to play defense contractors broadly is the iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ITA, -1.05% exchange-traded fund, which was created in 2006 and is up 13.7% in 2021 thus far. The SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF XAR, -1.67%, which kicked off in 2011, is up 7% year to date.
Appears like the same Happy Gang is back!
“The country the country” What happened to proof reading? Embarrassing.
May the stock markets drop to historic lows
lol the stock market give zero fucks about the Afghan situation, all it cares is free money, that's why we saw the selloff this morning.
well that quote is some serious insight 🙄
Sad they cannot leave good alone. Now more babies dying, more kids sold into sex slave trade, more US teens to get cartel drugs, police no longer able to fight crime, Middle East genocide in-progress. Even God may be mad at us over Israel and send plagues, droughts, hunger.
My opium stocks are skyrocketing.
I really believe this already affected the dollar. USDJPY should have bought long time ago but it been disrupted.
Lockheed Martin is screwed. Taliban basically free helicopters and won’t be paying monthly maintenance fees
Heroin prices go up
Almost no effect
Automatic weapons sales will soar
Nothing to do with it
WhereIsJoeBiden
Vietnam 2.0
The same pattern of a military position to take the weapon. the Taliban were trained by the U.S. Marines.
Betting on arm dealers like Lockheed. The US might wage a new war somewhere less stressful than Afghanistan.😂
These are the headlines included in movies about Western interference. There are people facing a noose and yall think money.
Taliban never left US needs to stop it
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No duh
-0- there are no morals on WS, & for u to even ask is moronic in itself. IF events from last 12m meant -0-, why would U.S. position in Afghanistan?
Does this mean shorts are gonna cover? 🖍
Bitcoin fixes this
Are they using their beards as facemasks?
Didn't know they allow monkeys to carry guns in Afghanistan- that's either very progressive or very irresponsible
Buy shares in 1988 Toyota war trucks. Who needs a trillion dollars worth of high tech crap?
Lol nothing
Another Saigon!
Another Saigon!
The question raised is the US role there during 20 years!!!
Didn’t the cia funded these guys and then started a war and now letting them ! Wtf 🤬
Then shut down the Saudi and Pakistani funding and supply that let the Taliban do that. Action. Not words
let them live in the stone-age, fuck em.
Not surprising at all
Are these terrorists plotting to invade the US Capitol again.?
Next prolly pakistan
Next probably pakistan
Man follow the Western media has really been pushing the US going back to war in Afghanistan.
They waited for us to vote in a sleepy Joe.
War profiteers are crying
horrible
Only in the Middle East?
So what this article is saying is pay close attention to $BA $LMT $RTX $NOC $PLTR $GD: