Global tensions don’t dent enthusiasm for stocks

By Steve Rothwell

Published July 25, 2014 8:47pm ET

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Global tensions don’t dent enthusiasm for stocks — FILE - In this July 16, 2014 file photo, trader Benedict Willis uses his moblie phone as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks are pricier, tensions between Russia and the West are mounting, and Israel has rolled into Gaza to stop a deadly air war. And yet investors shrug it all off and keep pushing the market higher. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) | Richard Drew

A war breaks out between Israel and Hamas. An airliner is shot out of the sky in Ukraine. A Portuguese bank’s finances look shaky.

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