Published on 25 Feb 2022 on Yahoo Finance
Why geopolitics is rocking the US stock market
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, there had been quite a bit of research circulating that concluded the impact of such an event to the U.S. stock market would be limited.
LPL Financial’s Ryan Detrick looked back at 37 major historical and geopolitical risk events. Generally speaking, the hit to the S&P 500 tends to be relatively light and the volatility tends to be relatively short-lived.
“The combined revenue exposure of the S&P 500 to Russia and Ukraine is about 1%,” FactSet’s John Butters found.