Insurers and Airlines Particularly Susceptible to Terror Risks

The second Paris massacre has hit travel and tourism stocks as financial markets had their first chance to react to the worst terrorist atrocity in Europe for more than a decade. A 2010 study found that US government bond market and bank stocks were the least-susceptible type of investment to terrorist incidents while the insurance sector and airline industry were the most sensitive.

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