In our digital age, current events have an increasingly swift impact on our finances. Extreme weather events, warfare, and other forms of political and economic unrest on the other side of the world are all communicated instantaneously. Those events in turn carry the capacity to impact finance trends in every market. Of course, seasoned investors make a point of keeping up on international news, and many of the heavy hitters are reliably quick to move their fortunes to greener pastures. The impact of all this can rapidly trickle down within one day on Wall Street and spread to international ma…