Market Watch: Ukraine war the latest crisis in 'long storm' of global challenges

Police officers and residents gathering in front of a house damaged by shelling, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 12, 2022. PHOTO: AFP
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SINGAPORE - From the Covid-19 pandemic to the Ukraine crisis, the world has entered a period of structural shifts marked by vulnerability that is without precedent in the last three-quarters of a century.

The situation in Ukraine represents a rupture in the system that once governed global stability. Investing for the future has become a much more complex game.

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