Would the announcement of alien life tank the markets?

I don’t see why it would have any influence either way

No.

If they've been here since 1947 they aren't here to destroy us.

We already have whatever tech they were able to offer.

This headline is really misleading. It’s an opinion by a former bank chair who retired 14 years ago. And she made the “opinion” that the bank simply have a contingency plan.. not that the markets would crash.

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It's potentially a new customer base. Markets should cheer

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It’s already priced in.

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Would the announcement of alien life tank the markets?

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Huh

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Poliboard

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Those guys believe stories that's even more insane than aliens every week based on a random posts on Twitter

With my luck, they would have a matter converter that turns garbage into lithium
Carbonate.

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We already have whatever tech they were able to offer.

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If they came from another solar system then we don't have that technology. Or at least the governments haven't shared knowledge of it with us.

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The setting changes to several months earlier, on Earth. The Kanamits, a race of 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) aliens, land on Earth as the planet is beset by international crises. As the Secretary-General of the United Nations announces the landing at a news conference, one of the aliens arrives and addresses the assembled delegates and journalists using a mechanical voice. He states that his race's motive in coming to Earth is to provide humanitarian aid by sharing their advanced technology that can easily and inexpensively solve all energy and food shortages and prevent international warfare. After answering questions, the Kanamit departs without comment and leaves behind a book in his language; Chambers, a cryptographer working for the United States government, is pressed into service to decipher it.

International leaders express wariness of the Kanamits' uninvited arrival on Earth, but start to believe their claims of benevolence upon seeing their advanced technology at work. Patty, a member of Chambers' staff, translates the title of the book as To Serve Man, further bolstering public trust in the Kanamits. One member of the race submits to polygraph-monitored interrogation and is determined to be telling the truth.

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The Kanamits deliver on their promise to turn the world into a Utopia, transforming barren deserts into productive agricultural land, and each nation is given an impenetrable force field that leads to the virtual disbandment of all militaries. Humans soon begin volunteering to travel to the Kanamits' home planet, which is described as a paradise, and the Kanamits set up embassies in every country on Earth and weigh all passengers boarding their ships. Even though Chambers' staff no longer have any real work to do, due to worldwide declarations of peace and the dissolution of the United States Armed Forces, Patty continues her efforts to decode the Kanamits' book, while Chambers decides to simply enjoy the newfound paradise and signs up for his own trip to the Kanamits' planet.

Some time later, as Chambers is boarding a Kanamit ship, Patty pushes through the waiting line and shouts for him not to go. She has successfully translated To Serve Man and discovered that it is not a book about humanitarian aid, but a cookbook. Chambers tries to flee, but a guard forces him onto the ship and closes the hatch so it can lift off.

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Anybody old enough to remember that Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man"? Wikipedia