Staggering amount of US treasuries dumped as Trump salivates over Greenland

A Danish pension fund is selling off its US treasuries in the wake of President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to annex its sovereign territory, Greenland.

The fund, known as AkademikerPension, said on Tuesday that it was selling off assets worth $100 million by the end of this month.

Its investment director, Anders Schelde, insisted that the decision was due to “poor US government finances,” and had nothing to do with Trump’s bellicose threats in recent weeks, which have led several...