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Global tensions, explained.
Are markets under stress?
This worldwide indicator stays the same when you change region. It measures financial stress; it does not assign a financial risk score to individual regions.
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Dashed line: historical average (0).
Source: Office of Financial Research, “OFR Financial Stress Index.” Values may be revised. Independent presentation; no affiliation or endorsement. Methodology · Go deeper: open the Risk dashboard.
World briefing.
Don’t let an unfamiliar word stop a good read.
Sanctions, deterrence, multilateralism… Find the concepts that bring a story into focus.
Official data, no guesswork.
Market and policy indicators from official and academic sources. Each card shows the latest observation, its date and where it comes from. If a source is unavailable, we say so instead of filling the gap.
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The OFR Financial Stress Index (daily) and tension-related news coverage by region (72-hour window, updated every 5 minutes).
Where the signals come from.
We read public RSS feeds from established media, think tanks and international organizations, and show original headlines with a link to the publisher. Feed status is checked on every refresh.
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Data
OFR Financial Stress Index (Office of Financial Research). VIX, Brent, WTI, broad US dollar index and US economic policy uncertainty (FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). Map data: Natural Earth via world-atlas.
The words that matter.
- Sanctions
- Measures such as asset freezes, trade bans or travel bans that a country or group imposes to pressure another government, company or person.
- Deterrence
- Discouraging an adversary from acting by convincing it that the costs, such as a military response, would outweigh the gains.
- Multilateralism
- Several countries working together through shared rules and institutions such as the UN, the WTO or NATO.
- Ceasefire
- An agreement to stop fighting, which can be local or general, temporary or open-ended. It is not the same as a peace treaty.
- Strait of Hormuz
- The narrow sea passage between Iran and Oman linking the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, a key route for oil and liquefied natural gas exports.
- Strategic Petroleum Reserve
- Emergency crude oil stocks held by a government to cushion supply shocks.
- Brent and WTI
- The two main benchmark prices for crude oil: Brent for North Sea oil, WTI (West Texas Intermediate) for US oil.
- VIX
- A measure of expected volatility in the US stock market over the next 30 days, often called the market's “fear gauge.”
- Financial stress
- Disruption in the normal functioning of financial markets. The OFR index sits at zero when stress is average; positive values mean above-average stress.
- Annexation
- A state's formal claim of sovereignty over territory that belonged to, or is claimed by, another.
- Proxy war
- A conflict in which outside powers support opposing sides without fighting each other directly.
- Hybrid warfare
- Combining military force with cyberattacks, disinformation, economic pressure and other non-military tools.
- Tariff
- A tax on imported goods, used to raise revenue, protect domestic industries or exert political pressure.
- Critical minerals
- Raw materials such as lithium, cobalt or rare earths that are essential for technology and energy and have vulnerable supply chains.
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