John Authers, Columnist

Markets May Declare the War Over. Is That the Truth?

Upside risks will probably continue to buoy share prices at least until the president’s next post. 

It’s not over till it’s over. Photo: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images

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There has always been a risk that President Donald Trump would declare victory in the Middle East conflict prematurely. That’s what he does; it seems to have worked for him in the fracas over Greenland, and he usually gets away with it.