15.08.2017 • 13:00 GMT
North Korea Fears Ease but Markets Still Uneasy, Oil and Bitcoin See Big Moves
John Kicklighter
• Hostility between North Korea and the US remains unresolved, but the pace of escalating fear eased with the VIX dropping
• Rather than highlighting the importance of North Korea, the markets move forward with a sense of market instability
• Fundamental themes for the Dollar, Pound and Yuan failed to mark pace; but the Aussie Dollar, Bitcoin and Oil compensated