Wealth Tracker: Should US-Venezuela conflict matter to Asian investors?

Published on 7 Jan 2026
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Markets didn’t panic. Stocks didn’t plunge. Oil barely budged.

And yet, the US just carried out a military operation in Venezuela, removing a long-standing leader in a country sitting on the world’s largest oil reserves.

So why the calm? Is this a geopolitical shock that investors are choosing to ignore, or one they don’t yet understand?

On Wealth Tracker, Hongbin Jeong speaks to Alicia García Herrero, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis, to find out more.

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