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With US treasury yields starting to turn lower, just as the S&P500 hesitate at critical highs, we take a look at the bigger picture to see if sentiment could be about to turn for the worst.

After a prolonged risk-on market environment, where it seemed that nothing short of catastrophe could faze investors, this week has finally seen a marked return to elevated risk aversion and higher market volatility. On Wednesday, this risk-off sentiment continued to be driven in large part by US political concerns, after fired FBI Director James Co...

<p>According to Wikipedia, Hydrogen-7 is the radioactive isotope with the shortest half-life at about 21 yoctoseconds (10^-24 seconds). Of course, nothing in financial markets moves <i>quite</i> that fast (despite the best efforts of some algorithms), but the half-life of <a href="http://www.forex.com/post?Pa=5b9e00f7-1868-4c89-a976-4ce50f...