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Week ending 11th February 2022.

Week ending 11th February 2022.

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%.

Week ending 4th February 2022.

Week ending 4th February 2022.

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.

Week ending 28th January 2022.

Week ending 28th January 2022.

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.

Week ending 21st January 2022.

Week ending 21st January 2022.

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.

Week ending 14th January 2022.

Week ending 14th January 2022.

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%.

Week ending 7th January 2022.

Week ending 7th January 2022.

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.

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