By Naomi Rovnick and Lucy Raitano
LONDON (Reuters) -Big investors are mobilising to trade through weeks packed with wild-card events that may shatter the calm in stock markets and drive big swings for assets they see as exposed to both positive or negative surprises, from gold to corporate credit.
U.S. Treasuries, the dollar, yen and euro zone debt may also turn volatile, investors said, Thursday’s U.S. jobs data is followed by next week’s crunch U.S.-European Union tariff deadline and then an unpredictable French budget vote. After that, markets face an August 12 deadline for U.S.-China talks to achieve a trade deal.
“I can’t think of a time in my history in markets, which is pretty long, where you’ve had so much risk and so little risk premium,” said Insight Investment head of investment specialists April La Russe, referring to the compensation for holding risky…
