Barbara Kollmeyer is based in Madrid, where she leads MarketWatch's pre-markets coverage of financial markets and writes the Need to Know column. She has worked in London and Los Angeles for MarketWatch previously. Follow her on Twitter @bkollmeyer.
““The modern world has not freed itself from distance and geography; it still relies on a network of vulnerable physical links””
Investors know of the vulnerable nodes, such as Taiwan’s semiconductor fabs, or the 0.5% of subway stations in London and Paris, whose failure could bring down half of the network, say the analysts. 2.) Roads, rails and rivers. The Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia are Africa’s biggest copper producers and account for two-thirds of the world’s cobalt that’s transported on four poorly maintained major roads. Brazil, the No. 1 soybean exporter, relies as well on four ports and small roads. Sparsity of global rail systems is also a risk, while rivers are vulnerable to drought.
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