Markets hit fresh all-time highs while the war kills
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The metabolism of war into liquidity has become so efficient that the price of suffering registers only as the price of a commodity. The market is not ignoring the war — it has digested it.
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2026-05-12 SURFACE
The S&P 500 closed at 7,273. NASDAQ-100 at 28,298. KOSPI surged nearly 7% to a record. Nikkei 225 reached 61,402, an all-time high. TAIEX in Taiwan touched 40,885. Crude oil approached $100 per barrel; U.S. gasoline averages $4.50 per gallon and has cost American households $284 each since the war began. The CPI report drops today.
The metabolism of war into liquidity has become so efficient that the price of suffering registers only as the price of a commodity. The market is not ignoring the war — it has digested it.