Global markets opened the week unsettled by political upheaval in Japan and France while U.S. traders braced for critical inflation data and the looming Fed mee

Global markets opened the week unsettled by political upheaval in Japan and France while U.S. traders braced for critical inflation data and the looming Fed meeting. With bond yields plunging, currencies swinging, and oil prices climbing, investors face a September shaped as much by politics as by policy.