BARCLAYS: These 13 'black swans' could cause market chaos in 2017

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2016 was a year of shocks, and with Donald Trump set to be sworn in as US president in less than weeks and the UK set to begin the formal process of leaving the European Union by the end of March, 2017 could get even more interesting.

Nowhere is this truer than in the energy and commodity sector, where as many as 13 major events could be "black swans" in 2017, a new research note published by a team at Barclays says.