Sherlock Holmes, the archetypal detective of Victorian fiction, once solved a case by studying not what happened, but what didn’t.

While his focus was on a dog that failed to bark at an apparent intruder, the perspective is equally apt for evaluating the performance of U.S. financial markets this week: All three of the major indexes are in positive territory despite days of turmoil that stretched from Washington to London and beyond.

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