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14th February 2022
The big event of the week was the release of the latest US CPI inflation reading - and yet again, the reading came in higher than the major economist expected, at 7.5% versus their expectations of 7.3%.
7th February 2022
Whilst last week was all about the US Fed and its hawkish comments on interest rates, this week was all about the BoE and ECB.
31st January 2022
Uncertainty about how quickly the Fed will increase US interest rates, coupled with escalating geopolitical tensions over Ukraine, meant we had another extremely volatile (and dizzying) week as we experienced a number of very big back-and-forth intra-day movements.
24th January 2022
It has been a miserable week for global equities as the risk of aggressive interest rate increases and geopolitical uncertainty combined to create a perfect storm.
17th January 2022
Data this week showed that the US was living with the fastest inflation in nearly 40 years (since June 1982 to be precise) at 7.0%.
10th January 2022
Global equity markets rang in the New Year with the release of the minutes from the Fed monetary policy meeting held on 15 December 2021 – which were much more hawkish than we expected.