It's mainly the U.S. dollar imo.
USD/JPY has been declining post Trump rally ever since December in which we hit a major resistance trendline...which lined up with gold bottoming and Nikkei also hitting resistance area(it has been chopping for almost 3 months now....and last week we may have finally started to get the reversal move).(However Nikkei is currently a few points before breaking key support levels) If that happens, then things can really start moving.
The thing is the U.S. dollar had a bull trap , and its showing signs of getting weaker and weaker as it made a LL and then recently a LH on a 4 hour time frame.
So in terms of global macro.... we either get
A. Bull market continues, selloff would be a headfake before we continue with trend. Bonds continue its decent from July 2016 as well as gold...
B. The correction is starting. Bonds have a huge deadcat bounce, gold continues its rally from December...Nikkei corrects, USD/JPY continues its decline, etc.....
But yeah at least for now it's not bloody red....compared to 2015 August