Weekly Strategy Perspectives: The Worry Closet
BMO Private Wealth - Oct 17, 2025
The Through Line: After months of relative calm, market volatility has spiked in recent days in response to flaring trade tensions between the U.S. and China...
“There are many kinds of risks… but volatility may be the least relevant of them all.”
 – Howard Marks
 
 The Through Line: After months of relative calm, market volatility has spiked in recent days in response to flaring trade tensions between the U.S. and China. Now that the worry closet door is slightly ajar, will investors be able to tuck its contents neatly back inside – or will more anxieties come spilling out? We check in on some top concerns for investors - and to what extent they’re justified.
 
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