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“Most people in financial markets know nothing about geopolitics, so it’s easy for them to ignore it,” Rabobank’s Michael Every told Reuters last week. Markets appear to have shrugged off the eruption of violence in the Middle East. Oil has subsided and government bond yields have ticked up again