Even by recent standards it has been an unsettlingly turbulent and dangerous start to the year.
But in the City and on Wall Street no-one seems to have got the memo. As Donald Trump’s Delta Force troops stormed the Venezuelan Presidential Palace in Caracas, plucking Nicolás Maduro and his wife from their bedroom, investors on both sides of the Atlantic were pushing their respective stock markets to dizzying new all-time highs.
