Antitrust enforcement. Breakup risk for the largest names; blocked deals reprice the whole M&A market.
What to watch: DOJ and FTC cases; merger challenges; EU DMA. It arrives event, and the effect typically lasts years.
It sits in tier 4 — Stock and sector specific: Moves one company or one group, not the market. Any factor here becomes tier one if it gets large enough — a bank failure and a pandemic both started as somebody's sector news.
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